“Is the cat black or is it darkish grey? There is that this debate on-line.
If you watch it on Onyx, you get the reply.”
— Matīss Kaža, co-writer and co-producer of Flow (2024)
Visual and immersive storytelling is central to how a movie is skilled on the massive display screen by moviegoers. As extra individuals search premier theater experiences, filmmakers are more and more embracing cinema LED screens over projectors to ship their creations in a manner audiences haven’t skilled earlier than, absolutely immersing the viewer within the worlds they create.
Following the launch of the most recent Samsung Onyx (ICD), Matīss Kaža, Golden Globes® winner, Academy Award® winner and producer of the movie Flow, shared his insights on how Onyx is pushing the boundaries in cinema.
Matīss Kaža is a Latvian director, author and producer, famend for co-writing and co-producing the animated movie Flow (2024), which gained a Golden Globe® Award for Best Motion Picture — Animated, an Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature, a Toronto International Film Festival — Best Animated Film, a European Film Awards for European Animated Feature Film, and extra. His tasks have a robust sense of authorship and cinematic imaginative and prescient that resonates past nationwide borders.
Q: Could you inform us a bit about what the movie Flow is about?
Flow is an animated movie, with none dialogue, telling the story of a solitary, individualist cat who likes to be by himself. Then immediately comes this large flood, destroying the cat’s dwelling and forcing it upon a ship with different animals. On this boat, the cat learns to collaborate and grow to be pals with these animals to outlive this new, lovely and humanless world.
▲ Matīss Kaža shares his expertise of watching his work on Samsung Onyx. (Poster: Courtesy of Sideshow and Janus Films)
Q: As a dialogue-free movie, how does a Cinema LED display screen improve the viewing expertise for the viewers?
One of the objectives of Flow as a dialogue-free movie is to primarily have the viewers come as near the cat’s expertise as potential, because the movie is constructed across the distinction between the principle protagonist and the world round it. Cinema is all about detailing within the visible storytelling, and this comes via on Onyx very properly. The world is vividly colourful with the yellows, greens and blues — after which the cat is darkish grey. There’s an enormous distinction that shines via when watching on the Onyx display screen, with its vivid colours and deep blacks.
▲ Flow, performed on Samsung Onyx
Q: How did the workforce work via the actions of every of the animals?
We studied the actions of those actual animals, right down to probably the most meticulous element, to ensure our strategy to the movie was naturalistic for the viewers. For instance, when one thing attracts the cat’s consideration, moderately than twisting its head to look, it will simply twist the ear.
Each animal strikes in numerous methods and has completely different silhouettes, weights and verticality. It was necessary for us to nail this course of when making the movie for the viewers to really feel absolutely immersed on this world.
▲ Courtesy of Sideshow and Janus Films
Q: How did it really feel to observe Flow on the Samsung Onyx Cinema LED display screen?
Many scenes within the movie function foreground and background interactions, and the viewers can absolutely get pleasure from and expertise precisely how we needed the movie to look. The actions are additionally very clear, and you may see how all of the completely different characters have their particularities, right down to probably the most delicate interactions. From the smallest twitching within the ear and the smallest gaze of the attention, or any little interplay, the extent of element on Onyx makes these completely seen for the viewers.
“I must say that Flow on the Onyx display screen actually flows.”
Q: Did you discover something new or completely different about Flow after seeing it on Samsung…
