Lockdown Paintings

Since I've never managed to commit to challenges like Inktober for more than three or four drawings, I challenged myself to post a double feature movie recommendation (available on VOD in Switzerland) accompanied by a digitally painted mashup of the two films for 33 consecutive days on instagram. Needless to say that this limited my own time for watching movies to a bare minimum.

Not everything turned out the way I imagined it, but overall, it was a satisfying exercise/project. So here are the 33 pictures in order of appearance. Hopefully, you'll see some of the films' elements and why I combined them.

Parents: MOTHER (2009) and VATERS GARTEN (2013).
The latter is not in the picture as I did not think of the mashup until after I posted the first one.

Magical island life: LA VIDA ES SILBER (1998) / SONG OF THE SEA (2014)

Parallel dimensions inside the computer:
WELT AM DRAHT (1974) / SUMMER WARS (2009)

Rhythm in your veins: WHIPLASH (2014) / BABY DRIVER (2017)

Bakeries in Tokyo and Zurich: AN (2015) / BÄCKEREI ZÜRRER (1957)

Colorful and naughty: THE FLORIDA PROJECT (2017) / ZAZIE DANS LE MÉTRO (1960)

Tangled up in the past - two masterpieces about country vs city life:
LAZZARO FELICE (2018) / ONLY YESTERDAY (1991)

April fools - exceptional conditions:
LE PRÉNOM (2012) / TURIST - FORCE MAJEURE (2014)

Far from the city: THE RIDER (2018) / SAMEBLOD (2016)

Unseen revelations: DEN SKYLDIGE (2018) / ABOUT ELLY (2009)

Party nights gone astray: VICTORIA (2015) / THE NIGHT IS SHORT, WALK ON GIRL (2017)

Shoplifters, oranges and substitute families:
SHOPLIFTERS (2018) / PADDINGTON 2 (2017)

Love in systems of oppression:
BARBARA (2012) / PHOENIX (2014) / TRANSIT (2018)

Tiny budget, incendiary speeches: ZÜRI BRÄNNT (1981) / BORN IN FLAMES (1983)

Italianitá in contemporary Roman bohemia in LA GRANDE BELLEZZA (2013) ...

...vs working class migrant workers in Basel in SIAMO ITALIANI (1964)

Self-empowerment: WOMAN AT WAR (2018) / VOLVER (2006)

Good Friday. ABOUT ENDLESSNESS (2019) / LEVIATHAN (2014)

Desire in isolation: PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU (2019) / HÖHENFEUER (1985)

Easter Sunday: AMAZING GRACE (1972/2018) / LA FAMILLE BÉLIER (2014)

It's never too late to engage with James Baldwin:
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (2018) / I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (2017)

Beyond civilisation, between human and animal:
MONOS (2019) / LA TORTUE ROUGE (2016)

(Dys)functional families with a lot of heart:
MA VIE DE COURGETTE (2016) / LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (2006)

Unreliable narrators in uncomfortable literary adaptations:
BURNING (2018) / NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007)

Drawn into war: CHRIS THE SWISS (2018) / LES MISÉRABLES (2019)

Hairy characters: TONI ERDMANN (2016) / DÄLLEBACH KARI (1970)

Trying to connect:
THE FAREWELL (2019) / ON BODY AND SOUL (2017) / ALOYS (2016)

On and off in black and white: COLD WAR (2018) / FRANCES HA (2012)

More than prison films:
LES HIRONDELLES DE KABOUL (2019) / THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994) / LA GRANDE ILLUSION (1937)

Growing up in different neighborhoods:
EIGHTH GRADE (2018) / DIVINES (2016)

Falling in love: CAROL (2015) / CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (2017) / GOD'S OWN COUNTRY (2017)

Family ties: MIDNIGHT FAMILY (2019) / STILL WALKING (2008)

Shifting Sympathies: A SEPARATION (2011) / MARRIAGE STORY (2019)

Back to the first theme "parents" in films about the filmmakers' own parents:
VERGISS MEIN NICHT (2012) / RAY & LIZ (2019)