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== Santiago Alvarez - L.B.J. (1968) ==
== Santiago Alvarez - L.B.J. (1968) ==
1ST cinema - Hollywood. Meant to entertainment.


2ND cinema - European auteur. Unconventional, experimental.
3RD cinema - Latin American film movement. Filmmaking relating to other cinema. Militant cinema, collective filmmaking. Revolutionary activism - against capitalism.
== Gunvor Nelson. Schmeerguntz (1965) ==
== Gunvor Nelson. Schmeerguntz (1965) ==
catalyst - a call to action—the circumstance that thrusts your protagonist into the story.
catalyst - a call to action—the circumstance that thrusts your protagonist into the story.
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1. Compilation. Not questioning the representational nature of the image. To illustrate the point - for example, in a documentary. Not subverting.
1. Compilation. Not questioning the representational nature of the image. To illustrate the point - for example, in a documentary. Not subverting.


2. Manipulating the material. Avant grade. Not matching image and sound. Critiquing. Juxtapositions, irony, disruptions.
2. Collage. Manipulating the material. Avant grade. Not matching image and sound. Critiquing. Juxtapositions, irony, disruptions.


3. Appropriation. Not a critique. Meant to entertain, to illustrate the mood. A playful way of making an image into something else.
3. Appropriation. Not a critique. Meant to entertain, to illustrate the mood. A playful way of making an image into something else.




== Strategies for image recycling: ==
- Removing sound
- Adding audio that doesn't belong
- Repetition
- Match cut
- Kuleshov effect. One shot is influenced by the other


- Layering images


1ST cinema - Hollywood. Meant for entertainment.
- Refraction. Different images, different materials.


2ND cinema - European auteur. Unconventional, experimental.


3RD cinema - Latin American film movement. Filmmaking relating to other cinema. Militant cinema, collective filmmaking. Revolutionary activism - against capitalism.
--- other notes:


- Changing the point of view instead of changing the meaning (!) changing the perspective


== Strategies for image recycling: ==
- Sound in reverse -  how some other language sounds to foreigners
- Removing sound


- Adding audio that doesn't belong
- Connecting movements so it's fluent


- Repetition
- Have a side project just to play around.
-


Match cut
- Being nice to the people that are being pictured. Ethics of the cinema. The violence of the lens are resolved in editing - which thought (shot) comes first.
- Kuleshov effect. One shot is influenced by the other


- Layering images
- Presence of the editor.


- Refraction. Different images, different materials.
- Creating soundtrack for the silent film. Makes strangening effect, tension, something is off.


== Intuitive editing : ==
== Intuitive editing : ==
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6. Break the time day by day, don't stay too long on one thing! Plan breaks!! Rumination - step away!!!
6. Break the time day by day, don't stay too long on one thing! Plan breaks!! Rumination - step away!!!
== Other notes ==
'''Defamiliarization (ostranenie)''' - artistic theory and technique of presenting to audiences common things in a strange and unfamiliar way, prolonging the perceptive process and allowing for a fresh perspective.
'''Subversion''' - something that’s likely to make the public question the values and the principles of a system in place, which in turn might lead to a change in social structures. Calls prevailing ideologies into question.
'''Juxtaposition''' - the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect




Defamiliarization (ostranenie) - artistic theory and technique of presenting to audiences common things in a strange and unfamiliar way, prolonging the perceptive process and allowing for a fresh perspective.
BBC sound archive


Subversion - something that’s likely to make the public question the values and the principles of a system in place, which in turn might lead to a change in social structures. Calls prevailing ideologies into question.
In the Blink of an Eye. Walter Murch


Juxtaposition - the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect
MacCare @Amsterdam

Latest revision as of 09:55, 22 March 2023


When working with found footage - intentionality is reframed. The context might be (ideologically) changed.


Esfir Shub - Fall of Romanov Dynasty:

(1984-1959- one of the first women (publically) working with found footage .

Idealogical "Perfection" --> Argument ---> Flip side of 'perfect ideology' ---> Propaganda on gender equality -> Warning

Santiago Alvarez - L.B.J. (1968)

1ST cinema - Hollywood. Meant to entertainment.

2ND cinema - European auteur. Unconventional, experimental.

3RD cinema - Latin American film movement. Filmmaking relating to other cinema. Militant cinema, collective filmmaking. Revolutionary activism - against capitalism.

Gunvor Nelson. Schmeerguntz (1965)

catalyst - a call to action—the circumstance that thrusts your protagonist into the story.

Harun Farocki - Respite (2007)

"Are these images an embellishment?" "Nobody seems to see them as a threath"

Close reading of images. Minimal intervention.

Recycled Images: The Art and Politics of Found Footage Films (1993)

Willem Wees

( https://monoskop.org/images/3/34/Wees_William_C_Recycled_Images_The_Art_and_Politics_of_Found_Footage_Films.pdf )

1. Compilation. Not questioning the representational nature of the image. To illustrate the point - for example, in a documentary. Not subverting.

2. Collage. Manipulating the material. Avant grade. Not matching image and sound. Critiquing. Juxtapositions, irony, disruptions.

3. Appropriation. Not a critique. Meant to entertain, to illustrate the mood. A playful way of making an image into something else.


Strategies for image recycling:

- Removing sound

- Adding audio that doesn't belong

- Repetition

- Match cut

- Kuleshov effect. One shot is influenced by the other

- Layering images

- Refraction. Different images, different materials.


--- other notes:

- Changing the point of view instead of changing the meaning (!) changing the perspective

- Sound in reverse - how some other language sounds to foreigners

- Connecting movements so it's fluent

- Have a side project just to play around.

- Being nice to the people that are being pictured. Ethics of the cinema. The violence of the lens are resolved in editing - which thought (shot) comes first.

- Presence of the editor.

- Creating soundtrack for the silent film. Makes strangening effect, tension, something is off.

Intuitive editing :

1. Expertise. Intuition through skills.

2. Implicit learning. Non-conscious (watching films, reading, etc)

3. Judgement. Decisions are based on understanding.

4. Sensitivity. Attentiveness to detail. To reset anxiety - have someone to sit with you while editing, meditate, take breaks, anything to gain a new set of eyes.

5. Creativity. Capacity for problem-solving. Notes, sheet on the wall eg. - "Potential turning point". Don't drop what you are doing.

6. Break the time day by day, don't stay too long on one thing! Plan breaks!! Rumination - step away!!!

Other notes

Defamiliarization (ostranenie) - artistic theory and technique of presenting to audiences common things in a strange and unfamiliar way, prolonging the perceptive process and allowing for a fresh perspective.


Subversion - something that’s likely to make the public question the values and the principles of a system in place, which in turn might lead to a change in social structures. Calls prevailing ideologies into question.


Juxtaposition - the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect



BBC sound archive

In the Blink of an Eye. Walter Murch

MacCare @Amsterdam