User:Luni/Thematic Seminars /Sabine
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
When working with found footage - intentionality is reframed. The context might be (ideologically) changed.
Esfir Shub (1984-1959- one of the first women (publically) working with found footage -
Fall of Romanov Dynasty:
Idealogical "Perfection" --> Argument ---> Flip side of 'perfect ideology' ---> Propaganda on gender equality -> Warning
Recycled Images: The Art and Politics of Found Footage Films (1993). Willem Wees
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.
3. Appropriation. Not a critique. Meant to entertain, to illustrate the mood. A playful way of making an image into something else.
1ST cinema - Hollywood. Meant for 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.
Santiago Alvarez - L.B.J. (1968)
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?" close reading of images. Minimal intervention.
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.
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!!!
- In the blink of an eye*