Lesson 11

Europe - avant-garde cinema

*critique of capitalism

Japan -> Animation (avant-garde) gives life to image

HK - John Wu - experimental cinema

       - Pang's brother

Andy Warhol

-desire - cinema

-materialization

-long series of work - screen shot

 - 2-3 minutes of a head facing camera

 - screen space challenge

-instantaneous response (at present of camera)

-performance

"Factory"

-> Banana - spectatorship

*marking the audience

->pornography

->suggestive - ness -> ambiguities

looking at the cinema as event

-here and now movement

Blow job -> title -> direction -> narrow down our interpretation

-challenge our viewing habit

X diegetic absorption

*minimum contents

-takes away comprehension and diegetic absorption 

*Attack / direct representation

Letterism - play with language

not about STYLE

Jeffrey Shaw -> web of life 2002

-expanded cinema

-space / x screen - immersive / x seeing

The Distributed legible city

-simulating a real city

-cycling

-textial reading

*Luc Courchesne (Canada)

http://www.din.umontreal.ca/courchesne/land.html

- about his work - Landscape One at 1999 Ars Electronica Festival

Michael Snow

-setting up what medium specific in cinema

-camera - segmenting a portion of reality

-e.g. people expect camera moved, more face shown

Crouch Leap Land

-transform 2D -> 3D

-isomorphism

Vue 

-play with projection

-no different between projection and object

Dialectic

-no accurate representation of an object

Venetian Blind

-focus -> infinity

-open work

Michael Snow's POV [photography]

- x go straight forward for the subject

- x transparent

Times [photography of abstract painting]

-painting created for the photograph

-painting itself not existed

-wall-extension of the floor

Photographic activity

-primitives and operators

-*transform

-recreate new kind of 3D space

-new perceptual experience

Wavelength

-film process

-subject is transformed by means of light ad mechanical device

-movement of time -> light

 image projected in time

1) illusion

-impression if depth

-realism in film = illusion

separate our tools with subjectivity