VAP MY

maya deren - Kenneth anger

independent cinema: david lynch - Lost Highway - mullholand drive

AVANT GARDE as attitude ('the spirit of the avant grade', rebellious, against the image of authority )

AVANT GARDE as context ('the European Avant Garde')

Surrealist manifesto Andre Breton

Sigmund Freud the unconscious mind - the world of dreams

Canonical films of the European Avant Garde:

1. Surrealist

Un chien andalu = an andalucian dog

By Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel

2. dadaist movement / dadaism (childish, palyful)

entr' acte

By Rene Clair

3. hell unlimited

By Norman Maclaren

4. Emak Bakia

by Man Ray

Some key words presented in class

bleak ?

oppresion ?

humour - absurd ?

against logic / rationality ?

Against good taste = bourgeoisie ? (middle classes)

"épater la bourgeoisie" (to scare mainstream society, or to scare the dominant echelons of society)

Abstract Cinema

Against representation / realism = stage drama

1. Realist Aesthetics

2. forms of narration = how we sequence time

Abstraction is not necessary something non representational in the image

Vision:

quarks / quantum physics

cosmology / stars / nebulas

spiritual visions / internal vision

mandala

Examples:

fantasia walt disney

oskar fischinger

stan brackhage: the streams of the mind had a grammar

cat's cradle

atmosphere = against external reality

non-objective image

Jordan Belson

Cosmology

Whitney brothers - lapis and yantra 1965

Len Lyle - Particles in space

Harry Smith

absurd

impressions / logic / feelings / sensations

inger lise hansen / michael snow (la region central, 1971)

Callum Cooper - London-based artist filmmaker

Malcom Le Grice - Berlin Horse (music by Brian Eno)

Kurt Kren - tv

The Tree of life - Terrence Malick

Karen Barad

According to atomistic metaphysics, space is a container and time is cut into successive fragments. The fact that we do not treat these assumptions as assumptions, or their effects as effects, is because we are used to atomistic metaphysics. We have always thought that the world was made of discrete objects and one-dimensional finalities, and interactions took place between individuals that pre-existed the exchanges. According to Karen Barad's (2007) agential ontology, or rather ethico-onto-epistemology, "individuals" do not pre-exist as such, but rather materialise in the event of intra-action. Bodies are not objects with inherent boundaries and properties, they are discursive material phenomena. Barad's concept of intra-action is central to developing a new understanding of the whole visual image and materiality beyond the limitations of traditional realism (positivism) and linguisticism.

reference

“end of semiotics” (Leone, 2015)

https://www.academia.edu/11425425/2015_-_Double_Debunking_Modern_Divination_and_the_End_of_Semiotics

media philosophy, Luciana Parisi (2012)

the notion of objects (algorithms) operating at the heart of cybernetic architectures, which generate a logic that is abstract and infinite, and lie beyond direct human cognition and control.

Walter Mignolo’s decolonial critique of visual hegemony (1995)

Maurizio Lazzarato’s “Video philosophy” (1996).