One idea: As rap became a genre increasingly comfortable with willful artifice (see: Rick Ross’ transition from correctional officer to faux cocaine kingpin), DMX, somehow, through it all, remained guileless.
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Credit: Courtesy of SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion and FilmCredit: Courtesy of SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion and FilmIn a 1987 ad for Chanel, Horst exhibits his signature blend of architectural female beauty and stylized artifice in a graphic studio shot that captures a model in a bathing suite contorting her body into an angular shape.
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But with the next season starting tomorrow, if you are planning to come back, I implore you to do this easy piece of housekeeping today: Strip the artifact mods out of all your armor, especially pieces with the extra 'artifice' slot.
Source: PC Gamer
Whilst the movie is always at pains to help the audience suspend their disbelief, it allows this very artifice to generate insightful observations about Iranian film culture, whilst avoiding generic “power of cinema” platitudes.
Source: Cineuropa
The trouble with Mendes’s film is in the effort to combine the pieces in a way that feels natural, in an artifice that’s devised to be nearly invisible.
Source: The New Yorker
One of the nice things about seeing the actors while they puppeteer is that there’s no artifice trying to convince the audience that these are the real characters on stage.
Source: Attractions Magazine
Both your films are stunning, but there's also a very deliberate amount of artifice to them.
Source: FILM COMPANION
Swapping orchestral swoon for glam-rock crunch midway through—right after Alex Turner croons, “And if you’re thinking of me/I’m probably thinking of you”—the song is an emotive puzzle, obsessed with artifice and lingering smudges you can’t wash away.
Source: Pitchfork
Much of the problem here comes from the artifice of Cromwell’s staging.
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Sophia Tolstoy is the only onscreen character in the documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman’s one-woman drama, which relies on the artifice of on-camera monologues to get at the politics of domestic life and the power struggles embedded in the history of art.
Source: The New Yorker
Diop drew on her documentary background to grasp that the role called for someone as far removed from the artifice of performance as possible.
Source: IndieWire
The indictment says that, beginning in 2019, Bankman-Fried intentionally devised “a scheme and artifice to defraud” FTX’s customers and investors, diverting their money to pay expenses and debts at his crypto hedge fund, Alameda Research, and to make lavish real estate purchases and large political donations.
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This isn’t inherently bad, but it’s vital to be aware of artifice and the spin we put on our lives in public.
Source: The Atlantic
Hardened criminals trapped in a meta movie
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In a 1994 interview with Film Comment's Gavin Smith, Tarantino elaborated on the mix of realism and "movie-movie" artifice of his first two films.
Source: /Film
The piece is notable for another peculiar aspect of Fincher’s music video work, which is his tendency to show the artifice of the production.
Source: Indie Film Hustle
Federal prosecutors say that beginning in 2019 Bankman-Fried devised “a scheme and artifice to defraud” FTX’s customers and investors.
Source: Florida Politics
And — naturally — it’s most easily set free in wild surroundings free of artifice and development.
Source: Anchorage Daily News
But as mesmerizing as “The Wonder” can be at times, the metatext only makes the artifice more apparent.
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Nature and artifice (or fashion) are at war in the artist’s secret sheets, which borrow from the conventions of fashion plates and satirical drawings of the time.
Source: Vogue
Alas, Joynt seems almost afraid to spend too much time on them, continually pivoting away from the reenactments to underline their artifice or discuss with the actors how they see their experiences mirrored in those of the people they are portraying.
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