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Action-Image vs Energy-Image
Notes from one of my classes on Critic History of Cinema with Fran Benavente. First the definition of Energy-Image: A image that furthermore than explaining and defining the story it prioritizes the sensation. An example of image action is the cinema of Philippe Grandieux. Un Lac Philippe Grandieux In Grandieux we can see clearly what…
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Rhythm & Trance in images
Snippets of a brief history of Rhythm & Trance in images. Same concepts in different cultures? La Vie Nouvelle Philippe Grandieux Jathilan Vincent Moon Les Maîtres Fous Jean Rouch La Question Humaine Nicolas Klotz
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Windows, Hipertext, cinema & videogame
What has been the influence of internet and new technologies in cinema is one of the main topics that interest me when sutdying film aesthetics. Here we can see a short comparations between Russian Ark with a concept of the hipertexted viewer and the idea of multiple stories that are left by the side and…
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Colin Turnbull
Sometimes in my life I get quite lost thinking on what to do next. Appearently nowadays the need to focus on your career and to everything within your grasp to grow dwarfs the possibility of exploration in life. Some of my favorite artists and writers had such a windy path in life that looking up…
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The not-inocent object
I recently found this old but very interesting interview with Cronemberg where one particular paragraph called my attention: …there are no innocent objects. They’re all guilty by definition. Most of the objects we’re talking about are created by people anyway. They’re not natural objects. Part of what I’m talking about is the way in which reality…
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The digital actor and the emptiness of being
With the possibility of endless repetition also came the possibility to react the same scene over and over until a non-actor can empty his being and fully embody the character for the camera. 10 Abbas Kiarostami No Quarto da Vanda Pedro Costa The same idea but this time applied to the subject of the documentary.…
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The Snow Melancholy Reflexive Ride
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