contemporary essay films

17 Essential Movies For An Introduction To Essay Films. Posted on February 3, 2015 June 18, 2015 by George Jepson. ... The portrait of Juliette is a composite sketch of the modern citizen, replaceable, replicable to the extent that Godard introduces Juliette first as Marina Vlady, the actress who plays her, before acknowledging her as a ...

The Sight & Sound Deep Focus season Thought in Action: The Art of the Essay Film runs at BFI Southbank 1-28 August 2013, with a keynote lecture by Kodwo Eshun on 1 August, a talk by writer and academic Laura Rascaroli on 27 August and a closing panel debate on 28 August. To take this film-lovers' tiff to a more elevated plane, what it ...

The audiovisual thinking process in contemporary essay films. Guest Editor: Lourdes Monterrubio Ibáñez. Born out of modern cinema, the essay film departed from the dominant forms of fiction and documentary cinema in order to explore an unknown territory defined by subjectivity, hybridization and reflection, evolving to become "a form that thinks," as Jean-Luc Godard defined it.

Abstract. Born out of modern cinema, the essay film departed from the dominant forms of fiction and documentary cinema in order to explore an unknown territory defined by subjectivity ...

contemporary essay ilm when the ilmmaker places themselves in it, instrumentalizing the identiication with their spectator. In "The Spectator's Position as Thinking Space for the Contemporary Essay Film: Face aux fantômes (2009) and Jaurès (2012)," I carry out a comparative analysis of both ilms by Jean-Louis Comolli

Essay Film. This project has received funding from the European Union 's Horiz on 2020 research and Innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 896941 .

9 comparative cinema Editorial The Audiovisual Thinking Process in Contemporary Essay Films Vol.X No. 18 2022 film's emphasis on the rendition of a subjective consciousness that tests and ...

This article aims to carry out an analysis of the spectatorial position as a thinking space for the contemporary essay film based on the comparative study of two Francophone films: Face aux fantômes (Jean-Louis Comolli and Sylvie Lindeperg, 2009) and Jaurès (Vincent Dieutre, 2012). The dialogism of the essay film, the interpellation to the ...

The British Film Institute 2013 series on essay films provided many such works. Through reflecting on that series, I concluded that the essayistic mode is at its most potent when it expresses discontent with everything that's conventional, complacent and conformist in contemporary media and society. The screen becomes not just a cinematic ...

Creative and critical, performative and political, the essay film is the cutting edge of cinema's engagement with the world. Programme. Saturday 19 March, 4:00pm. Saturday 19 March, 6:30pm. Sunday 20 March 2022, 2:30pm. Sunday 20 March, 4:30pm. Tuesday 22 March, 6:30pm. Wednesday 23 March, 8:45pm. The festival returns to the ICA for its ...

Located at the intersection between 'world cinema' and the tradition of the 'essay film', the label 'world essay film' designates a number of works in which the 'main idea' is, arguably, the whole world itself. This chapter investigates the world essay film from a theoretical perspective, focusing specifically on how the world ...

In her essay "The Essay Film: Problems, Definitions, Textual Commitments" featured in Alter and Corrigan's "Essays on the Essay Film" Laura Rascaroli wisely notes that "we must resist the temptation to overtheorise the form or, even worse, to crystallise it into a genre…" since the essay film is a "matrix of all generic ...

Consider Thom Andersen's epic 2003 video essay "Los Angeles Plays Itself." In it, Andersen appropriates clips from films set in Los Angeles from over the decades and then criticizes the cinema's depiction of his beloved city. It's the most meta of essay films because by the end, Andersen himself has constructed the latest Los Angeles ...

This article aims to carry out an analysis of the spectatorial position as a thinking space for the contemporary essay film based on the comparative study of two Francophone films: Face aux fantômes (Jean-Louis Comolli and Sylvie Lindeperg, 2009) and Jaurès (Vincent Dieutre, 2012).

The Audiovisual Thinking Process in Contemporary Essay Films (ed.) Comparative Cinema 10 (18) (2022) Born out of modern cinema, the essay film departed from the dominant forms of fiction and documentary cinema in order to explore an unknown territory defined by subjectivity, hybridization and reflection, evolving to become "a form that thinks ...

This anthology of fundamental statements on the essay film offers a range of crucial historical and philosophical perspectives. It provides early critical articulations of the essay film as it evolved through the 1950s and 1960s, key contemporary scholarly essays, and a selection of writings by essay filmmakers.

4 As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty. Canyon Cinema. Jonas Mekas, the godfather of American avant-garde cinema, made one of the most personal, but at the same time ...

Crafted by first-year students for a Complex Problems class within a living-learning community (AU Scholars in Fall 2018, University College in Spring 2015 and Fall 2019, AU Honors in Fall 2020, 2021, and 2022) at American University, each video essay closely examines a single contemporary film from a different country; each comes accompanied ...

If Altman is correct, not only about film genres but (as he contended) also about genres of drama, literary fiction, television, and presumably every other aesthetic and/or mass-cultural medium, then it seems that the clock of genre theory, to paraphrase the introduction to Altman's 1984 essay A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre," has ...

The audiovisual thinking process in contemporary essay films. Guest Editor: Lourdes Monterrubio Ibáñez. Born out of modern cinema, the essay film departed from the dominant forms of fiction and documentary cinema in order to explore an unknown territory defined by subjectivity, hybridization and reflection, evolving to become "a form that thinks," as Jean-Luc Godard defined it.

Magic Hours by Tom Bissell "Award-winning essayist Tom Bissell explores the highs and lows of the creative process. He takes us from the set of The Big Bang Theory to the first novel of Ernest Hemingway to the final work of David Foster Wallace; from the films of Werner Herzog to the film of Tommy Wiseau to the editorial meeting in which Paula Fox's work was relaunched into the world.

Elena (Greta Grineviciute), a contemporary dancer, meets Dovydas (Kestutis Cicenas), a sign language interpreter, at a class for deaf adolescents — she teaches the steps; he translates her ...

The audiovisual thinking process in contemporary essay films. Guest Editor: Lourdes Monterrubio Ibáñez. Born out of modern cinema, the essay film departed from the dominant forms of fiction and documentary cinema in order to explore an unknown territory defined by subjectivity, hybridization and reflection, evolving to become "a form that ...

Contemporary and new interviews, and lots of in-car and behind-the-pit-lane footage, reveal a man pushing himself to the limit season after season. ... Lynne Ramsay has made only four films in a ...