Media Arts: Hugo

This week in Media Arts class we are watching the Oscar winning 2011 film Hugo directed by Martin Scorsese based on Brian Selznick's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret about the last days of film pioneer Georges Méliès life in Paris's Gare Montparnasse railway station.  The film features cameos by characters such as: the guitarist Django Reinhardt, artist Salvador Dalí, and writer James Joyce and goes over the period of time in film history we just discussed in class.  The short video above gives a look at how difficult some of the shots were with a complicated tracking shot which goes around characters through 3 rooms, pretty impressive!