Mise En Scène & The Visual Themes of Wes Anderson, A Video Essay Exploring the Director’s Artistic Style

Chicago-based filmmaker and writer Nelson Carvajal has created “Mise En Scène & The Visual Themes of Wes Anderson,” a five-minute video essay for Way Too Indie that explores the film director’s artistic style.

Wes Anderson has become a film genre. Even ‘Saturday Night Live‘ did a spoof on this notion, re-envisioning a modern horror film as a Wes Anderson comedy for one of their digital shorts. And although the auteur would not likely refer to himself as a “genre”, the evidence is onscreen in every one of his films… (read more)