Review of Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios´s "Latin American Cinemas: Local Views and Transnational Connections." Calgary: U of Calgary P, 2011. Pp. 333. ISBN 978-1-55238-514-2.
Published in Hispania 95.2 (2012): 344–75
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CINEMASCOPE-Indipendent Film Journal
year VIII ~ issue 17 ~ JANUARY-JUNE 2012
Alfred Hitchcock's Technical Achievement In Directing the Perfect Suspenseful Film
During my Fall semester last year I took a class called Great Directors in Film. This is a six page paper on Alfred Hitchcock's achievement at becoming known as the master of suspense through his films.
"The Equitable Eye: On Creaturely Life in the Films of Betty Leirner"
by Anat Pick
Catalogue essay, Betty Leirner Retrospective, Cinemateca Brasileira, São Paolo, September 2010
Film Analizi Yöntemi ile Virginia Satir Aile Terapisi Yaklaşımına Bir Bakış
by Mithat Durak
Satir, family therapy, family homeostasis, communication within family and fi lm analysis
Virginia Satir, the women pioneer of family therapy, introduced an effective therapy to the treatment of various... more Virginia Satir, the women pioneer of family therapy, introduced an effective therapy to the treatment of various problems. In spite of the fact that applications of Satir Family Therapy in different cultures are exemplifi ed in the literature, there is limited number of research related with the applications of this approach in Turkey. In this context, this article mainly aims to review conceptual frame of Satir Family Therapy and to exemplify this approach with the method of fi lm analysis. In this direction, theoretical concepts, role of the therapist, evaluation of families, purpose of therapy and intervention techniques of Satir Family Therapy are described and exemplifi ed with a fi lm analysis of “One True Thing”. As a result, this article will be a resource for professionals either working or continuing their education through strengthening the theoretical frame of the Satir Family Therapy, and an example of the applications of this approach.
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Seen by: and 2 morePersonal Identity, Selective Memory Erasure and Utilitarianism in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
A look at personal identity, selective memory erasure and utilitarianism in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and asking "What makes us who we are?"
Artificijelna katarza
Artificijelna katarza
Odjek, Journal for Arts, Science and Social Issues, Sarajevo, Index: C.E.E.O.L., fall-winter 2011, Year LXIV, No. 4, pp. 89-93
Some thoughts on theory-practice relations in Animation Studies
by Paul Ward
Published in animation: an interdisciplinary journal, vol. 1, no. 2, Nov 2006, pp. 229-245. Awarded the McLaren-Lambart Award for Best Scholarly Essay in the field of Animation Studies, 2008
The article examines theory-practice relationships in the field of Animation Studies via three conceptual frameworks:... more The article examines theory-practice relationships in the field of Animation Studies via three conceptual frameworks: legitimate peripheral participation, critical practice and recontextualization. The overarching argument is that Animation Studies must be understood in an ‘interdisciplinary’ way, and that means evaluating how different communities of practice work with similar or related terms. The article draws upon email discussion group data as a way of beginning to map the discourses used by people working within the field of Animation Studies. The perceived role of technology is given specific attention, particularly the ways it can be seen to be straitjacketing the development of a truly critical Animation Studies community - one that attends to theory and practice in equal measure.
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Intermedialities: Theory, History, Practice: Proceedings of the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop (SCH)
by Ivo Blom
Intermedialities: Theory, History, Practice: Proceedings of the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop (SCH), convened by: Ginette Verstraete (NL), Ivo Blom (NL). Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, series Film & Media Studies, Vol. 2, 2010. Edited by Ágnes Pethő, Jens Schröter, Ginette Verstraete, and Ivo Blom.
“José Carlos Mariátegui y el cine: entre Hollywood y un Charlot desnudo”.
Hispamérica 39.117 (2010): 3-14.
Bluebell, Short Film and Feminist Film Practice As Research: Strategies for Dissemination and Peer Review
This is the peer-reviewed draft, prior to corrections and typography
This article seeks to reflect on my filmmaking practice through a discussion of my short film Bluebell (2003),... more This article seeks to reflect on my filmmaking practice through a discussion of my short film Bluebell (2003), situating the film within a theoretical context and providing a ‘route map’ of the practice research process. The film uses the cliché of ‘stranger rape’ to set up and upset audience expectations of rape narrative, challenging the construction of women as the victims rather than survivors of rape. Drawing on previous research on Angela Carter's reworking of Perrault's Little Red Riding Hood, and its reception by the feminist sisterhood, the article explores the opportunities and the dangers of feminist reappropriation of patriarchal narratives. The formal properties of the short film are examined as a potentially radical space for the emergent feminist filmmaker and strategies of dissemination and peer review are put forward.
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Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 63-64 (2006): 47-65.
"D'un monde a l'autre: Art brut and die Collageanimationsfilme des Lausanner CERY-Spitals"
Published (in German) in in: Home Stories. Neue Studien zu Film und Kino in der Schweiz. Marburg: Schüren-Verlag, 2001. ISBN: 3894725044
HOME STORIES Table of Contents (German):
HOME STORIES Table of Contents (German): http://www.gbv.de/du/services/agi/F9BDF97922B28A52C125703E0053ECD5/420000146083
Available at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3894725044?tag=openlibr-20
Das Interesse an dem, was wir heute als Outsider Art oder Art brut kennen, ist seit einiger Zeit stetig angewachsen – allein in der Schweiz gibt es 9 Sammlungen von Gemälden, Zeichnungen, Collagen, Stickereien, Plastiken und Tagebüchern. Ursprünglich waren es vor allem Ärzte, die in der zweiten Hälfte des letzten Jahrhunderts begannen sich mit dem Kunstschaffen von geisteskranken Patienten zu beschäftigten. Ihre Schriften hatten jedoch weder spürbaren Einfluss innerhalb der Psychiatrie, noch bewirkten sie etwas in Bezug auf die Rezeption der Art brut. Trotz Publikationen wie Genio e Follia von Cesare Lombroso (1864), Walther Morgenthalers Buch über Adolf Wölfli (1921), oder Hans Prinzhorns Standardwerk Bildnerei der Geisteskranken (1921), wurde die These, dass bildende Kunst und die Schöpfungen schizophrener Patienten sich gegenseitig als Konzepte ausschliessen, lange nicht entkräftet. Inzwischen ist diese Haltung durch eine kunstwissenschaftlich ausgerichtete Neubewertung ersetzt worden. Die vereinzelten Filmarbeiten von psychisch kranken Menschen wurden bislang allerdings kaum beachtet. Denn auch der Einbezug des Mediums Film in die Kunsttherapie blieb lange aus.
Animationsfilm kann eine Alternative zur alltäglichen physischen Erfahrung darstellen. Die alltäglichen psysischen und psychischen Erfahrungen sind von Mensch zu Mensch natürlich anders. Ein Extremfall ist die erlebte Welt von Geisteskranken: Die inneren Bilder, die sie in einem von psychotischen Schüben, Schizophrenie und depressiver Stimmung geprägten Alltag begleiten, verlangen nach einer geeigneten Ausdrucksform, die diese verzerrte, fragmentarische und oft abstrakt anmutende Wahrnehmung visuell umsetzen kann. Kunst von schizophrenen Patienten und Patientinnen ist oft von graphischem und metaphorischem Reichtum geprägt: Ziffern, Figuren, geometrische Formen, Inskriptionen und hermetische graphische Weltbilddarstellungen oder klaustrophobisch gefüllte Blätter. Als eine Technik von vielen bietet die Collagetechnik zudem die Möglichkeit, vorhandenes Kulturgut anderer Kunstschaffender oder aus der Populärkultur in Form von Zeichnungen, Textpassagen und Fotos in die eigene Produktion miteinzubeziehen. Diese Technik ist auch sonst oft die erste Begegnung vieler Menschen, die sich mit dem Animationsfilm zu beschäftigen beginnen.
Eine aussergewöhnliche Anwendung fand das kreative Potential des Animationsfilms in der französischen Schweiz. 1962 wurde an der psychiatrischen Universitätsklinik Lausanne (CERY) ein Projekt ins Leben gerufen, das durch den Einsatz des Films die Möglichkeiten dieser Form von Beschäftigungstherapie auf einmalige Art und Weise erweitern sollte. Dessen Zweck war die Förderung der Zusammenarbeit zwischen zurückgezogenen schizophrenen Langzeitpatienten, die durch eine Beteiligung an Filmprojekten mit anderen Menschen in Kontakt kommen sollten. Unter der Betreuung des Schweizer Filmemachers Ernest (Nag) Ansorge wurden so 13 Animationsfilme geschaffen. Entgegen den Erwartungen der Klinikleitung entstanden keine Filmdokumente über den äusseren Klinikalltag der Patientinnen und Patienten, sondern ein künstlerischer Prozess wurde ausgelöst, der bei ihnen poetische und literarische Ambitionen weckte.
"Graphic and Literary Metamorphosis: Animation Technique and James Joyce's 'Ulysses'"
Published in Animation Journal 7.1 (Fall 1998), p.21-34
The animation film is a form which is ultimately defined by its use of metamorphosis, an effect in which a cinematic... more
The animation film is a form which is ultimately defined by its use of metamorphosis, an effect in which a cinematic image, whether 2D graphic or 3 dimensional, appears to effect a transition in form over a period of time . Assuming that animation’s fundamental ability to express metamorphosis and stream of consciousness is a primary feature of the film form, I will propose that animation is a feasible artistic medium for a cinematic transformation of these techniques employed in literary works which are otherwise unfilmable, exemplified here by Irish author James Joyce’s stylistic innovations. My intention is to articulate the obvious, perhaps thereby expanding our perceptions of the extended influence of Joyce on artistic production by considering one more artistic medium, that of the animated film. For those unfamiliar with Joyce’s works, references have been selected which do not require knowledge of the texts.
That certain chapters of Ulysses display cinematic style is clear, and has been analysed by a number of literary theorists, including Fritz Senn, Christine van Boheemen, Alan Speigel, and Eva J.M. Schmid. Yet most have concentrated on a style which is limited to cinematic conventions of fictional realism, initiated by D.W. Griffiths and perfected in the Classical Hollywood period. My interest, however, is centered on the form of animation film, ranging from experimental to conventional techniques.
In this paper, I refer to animated film sequences which exist independently of Joyce’s texts, but which utilise techniques which I propose result in a visual expression similar to the reader’s experience of particular words, phrases or passages of Ulysses. In doing so, I am acknowleging the immense potential influence of Joyce on theories of visualisation in literature and the animated cinematic image, itself a synthesis of photography, sculpture and graphic arts. From the Avantgarde experiments of Richter and Ruttmann and continuing into contemporary independent animation, metamorphosis and representations of inner states and fantasy remain features of many of these films (Joyce himself once referred to Ruttmann as a filmmaker who he imagined could do a film version of Ulysses). Joyce’s influence on artists working in other media continues.
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Extracinematic Animation: Gregory Barsamian in Conversation with Suzanne Buchan
animation: an interdisciplinary journal, Vol. 3, No. 3, 288-305 (2008)
Gregory Barsamian's strobe-lit kinetic sculptures create an experience that places observers in a perceptual paradox... more
Gregory Barsamian's strobe-lit kinetic sculptures create an experience that places observers in a perceptual paradox that oscillates between the illusion of animated cinema and the phenomenal presence of real objects that share the viewer's physical presence in space and time. The conversation reveals Barsamian's working methods, his aesthetic and philosophical influences and intentions and his artistic relationship with animated illusion.
In her introduction to Barsamian's work, Buchan introduces a notion of 'extracinematic animation' that literally takes place outside of the technical and chemical means of cinema. This is in addition to the extracinematic elements his work contains according to the term's meaning in film semiotics, the extracinematic codes that are shared across media, i.e. are not unique to a medium, for instance narrative, gesture, and frame (itself a cinematic term that originates from theatre). His installations exist outside of their strobe-induced performance, as actors have their own extracinematic lives.
Key Words: sculpture installation • extracinematic animation • artist interview • art economies • perception • pre-cinematic optical illusion • metamorphosis
animation: an interdisciplinary journal, Vol. 3, No. 3, 288-305 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1746847708096730
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The Quay Brothers: Choreographed Chiaroscuro, Enigmatic and Sublime.
Published in Film Quarterly, Spring 1998, Vol 51, No 3, pp2-15. Available through JSTOR and ATHENS
This essay examines the aesthetics and artistic contexts of the majority of the Quays output up to 1998, from... more
This essay examines the aesthetics and artistic contexts of the majority of the Quays output up to 1998, from Nocturna Artificialia to Institute Benjamenta.
The Quay Brothers' striking decors and unique puppets, their attention to the 'liberation of the mistake' and their casual and lingering closeups combine to create an ingenious alchemy of animated cinema. Watching any of their animation films means entering a dream world of visual poetry. In their own words: «Puppet films by their very nature are extremely artificial constructions, even more so depending at what level of 'enchantment' one would wish for them in relation to the subject, and, above all, [depending on] the conceptual mise-en-scène applied.». Whether their first documentary or literary-inspired puppet animations or the more recent STILLE NACHT shorts, the ambiguousness of the anachronistic world of their puppets has attracted a loyal if select following.
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