Avant-Garde Cinema
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Discussions of “silent cinema” have generally focused on films made during the silent era (1894–1929). Even after the spread of synchronized sound, however, several experimental filmmakers created films without soundtracks, purely visual... more
Fifty international contributors from various arts fields reflect on the meaning of the avant garde today.
Encompassing experimental film and video, essay film, gallery-based installation art, and digital art, Jihoon Kim establishes the concept of hybrid moving images as an array of impure images shaped by the encounters and negotiations... more
Esta investigación analiza el período compren-dido entre finales de los años 20 y principios de los 30 en la literatura de Francisco Ayala. La cuestión principal gira en torno a la deno-minación como vanguardista de los escritos del... more
Si se pretende matizar el aporte del arte de Buñuel al proyecto surrealista, es necesario investigar la maduración progresiva de su cine a la luz de la propuesta surrealista de la "liberación del deseo". Así, se intenta en este ensayo... more
Le mythe de Salomé au cinéma : du noir et blanc de Charles Bryant (1923) au délire de couleurs de Carmelo Bene (1972) La richesse des réinterprétations du mythe de Salomé montre à quel point il s'agit d'un de ces mythes essentiels qui ne... more
This is a review of Scott MacDonald's The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama (Avant-Doc 2). Oxford UP, 2019.
Una paradoja acecha a este libro. Una tensión entre lo individual y lo colectivo, entre lo trascendente y aquello más inmanente. Jonas Mekas ha sido, probablemente, quien mejor ha representado los logros del cine underground que se llevó... more
From Millennium Film Journal, no. 70 (2019): 24-33. Coauthored with Faith Holland. Errata: for "Moulton's deft use of the video medium has often been used to," read "... use of the video medium has often gone far to ..." (p. 29); for... more
Resumo Este artigo propõe uma reflexão sobre A Dança dos Paroxismos (1929), de Jorge Brum do Canto (1910-1994), motivada por diversas pistas de interpretação lançadas nos intertítulos iniciais, designadamente a apresentação da obra como... more
This essay analyzes Zorns Lemma (1962–1970), a film made by American artist Hollis Frampton (1936–1984). Noting Frampton’s use of Robert Grosseteste’s thirteenth-century treatise De luce [‘On Light’] as a key aspect of the film’s... more
Colección Ensayos Arte Cátedra. Ed. Cátedra, Madrid, 2008. ISBN: 978-84-376-2503-4 427 páginas. · Ficha de la editorial: https://catedra.com/libro/ensayos-arte-catedra/arte-en-fotogramas-carlos-tejeda-9788437625034/ · Contenido PDF:... more
Em geral, as teorias da religião colocam em relevo o aspecto de fundamentação e construção de sentido que o discurso religioso estabelece. Assim, a religião é tida como fixação de uma ordem frente ao caos, de um sentido frente ao vazio,... more
« Que le cinéma aille à sa perte, c’est le seul cinéma. Que le monde aille à sa perte, qu’il aille à sa perte, c’est la seule politique. » (Le Camion, premier projet). Si l’on a beaucoup glosé sur la vocation politique de cette double... more
Début des années cinquante, à Paris, le strip-tease s'acclimate comme le stade le plus aboutit de ce qui est autorisé à la scène en termes d'érotisme. Le succès rencontré par cet art du spectacle vivant est tel qu'à partir des années... more
An account of the relationship between John Lennon and the visual arts with especial reference to his collaborations with Yoko Ono.
L’évolution de la littérature et des arts est communément envisagée comme une succession de ruptures, dont chacune définit une école ou un mouvement dit d’avant-garde. Mais il serait temps de s’interroger sur la face cachée de ce récit :... more
An examination of Charles and Ray Eames and Josef Svoboda's multi-screen exhibits at the US Worlds Fairs in the 20th century. These exhibits still have a lasting impact on narrative cinema, video art, and interactivity within in film today.
This essay shows Mexican independent cinema’s innovative approach towards the representation of children’s universe in the 1960s. The films En el balcón vacío, En el parque hondo and Tarde de agosto explore the child protagonists’... more
These Pixelscapes were found within a photograph of Kazimir Malevich (Ukranian-born artist, 1878-1935) via magnification, filter treatment (halftone) and isolation of the pixel(s) in Photoshop. Malevich founded the art movement,... more
Mathieu Capel ÉVASION DU JAPON CINÉMA JAPONAIS DES ANNÉES 1960 La décennie 1960 est une période d’intenses bouleversements dans l’histoire du cinéma japonais. L’heure est à la libération sexuelle, à la contestation politique, aux... more
Desde su aparición en 1971, 'El mundo visto' de Stanley Cavell ha marcado una pauta en los estudios sobre cine al elevarlo a la altura de la filosofía y ha supuesto un desafío para la propia filosofía de Cavell, enfrentada al escándalo... more
At their most basic, the cinematic imaginary and the photographic fact help explain how specific techniques or even individual artworks could be viewed as quintessentially cinematic in the interwar period and archetypally photographic... more
In: Poslanje filologa, ur. C. Pavlović, T. Bogdan, 2008. Proučavanje filma često se temeljilo na dosezima i metodologijama drugih znanosti – od psihologije (primjerice, psihologije percepcije i kognitivne psihologije), sociologije i... more
Digitally composed from stereo photographs over a century old, Ken Jacobs' 2006 "Capitalism" films unsettle spatiotemporal relationships that structure not only photographic and cinematic representation but also dimensions of perception... more
Maria Tatar states that the fairy-tale Beauty and the Beast depicts, “The transformative power of empathy, that encodes messages about […] romance, marriage, and ‘The Other’” (9). Because of these coded messages, the story and its many... more
The first institutional history of European avant-garde cinema in the 1920s. Through the lens of the Stuttgart "Film and Foto" exhibition, the film portion curated by Hans Richter, this essay intertwines the history of European... more
Análisis textual del universo Tim Burton. Escenas Fantasmáticas. Análisis de varias escenas de la filmografía de Tim Burton acompañadas de datos clave sobre el autor y sus influencias para el análisis de éstas. Trabajo de Finde... more
This article deals with the fundamental question of movement in the work of Marcel Duchamp. It attempts to show that far from being a passing phase, it was present throughout his career, adopting different perspectives and explanations.... more
In the late 1970s, Pierre Bourdieu argued that the field of cultural production was distinguished along class lines by three different modes of cultural habitus: bourgeois disinterestness, petty-bourgeois allodoxia and working-class... more
The underground magazines of the seventies were innovative, provocative and often made with limited resources. In the second half of the 20th century, they represented a fertile laboratory for experimenting. They came about in the wake of... more
The 1920s saw the worldwide creation of the ‘City Symphony Films,’ avant-garde montages of the daily lives of cities. This study is grounded in the historical context of the modernisation of time, demonstrating how these films reflected... more
This paper will go through an analysis of Derek Bailey’s and Lars von Trier’s works within Free Improvisation music and Dogma 95. To do that, the different historical context will be presented and analysed together with a comparison of... more