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I was obsessed by the whole transposing from one person’s life onto another and the mutative relationships among him and other tenants that we see through out the story. These transformations triggered the production of my book. Sampling all incidents through out the story, I juxtaposed all the dialogues containing the word "know". Each sentence that was extracted from the script became my re-constructed storyline, and altered the perception of events . I want to present an external way of reading the film with all the existing images and texts. | I was obsessed by the whole transposing from one person’s life onto another and the mutative relationships among him and other tenants that we see through out the story. These transformations triggered the production of my book. Sampling all incidents through out the story, I juxtaposed all the dialogues containing the word "know". Each sentence that was extracted from the script became my re-constructed storyline, and altered the perception of events . I want to present an external way of reading the film with all the existing images and texts. | ||
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"The suggestive power of those arbitrary justapositions of words was so tupefying and dazzling, so brilliantly verified the Surrealist thesis and mentality, that the game became a system, a research method ... perhaps even a drag" | |||
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The Tenant is a psychological horror film directed by Roman Polanski. The main character Trelkovsky confronts on mental conflict after he moves into the new apartment. The relationships among him and the other neighbours become weird. He himself goes into a transformation to be the previous tenant. In the end, he dresses up again as a woman and throws himself out the apartment window in the manner of Simone who is the previous tenant and he ends up with being bandaged up in the same fashion as Simone in the same hospital bed, but we see his and Stella's own visit to Simone. I was obsessed by the whole transposing from one to the other. Not only the main characther but also the other charaters talk exactly the same thing transposing from one to another. These triggers the production of my book with which I provide all the comprehension from people involved in this story by juxtaposing their dialogues contains the word "know". Each sentences extracted from the film was under the construction of storyline about their understanding of the situation inside the film. But here in my book, I want to present an external way of reading the film with all the existing images and texts. | The Tenant is a psychological horror film directed by Roman Polanski. The main character Trelkovsky confronts on mental conflict after he moves into the new apartment. The relationships among him and the other neighbours become weird. He himself goes into a transformation to be the previous tenant. In the end, he dresses up again as a woman and throws himself out the apartment window in the manner of Simone who is the previous tenant and he ends up with being bandaged up in the same fashion as Simone in the same hospital bed, but we see his and Stella's own visit to Simone. I was obsessed by the whole transposing from one to the other. Not only the main characther but also the other charaters talk exactly the same thing transposing from one to another. These triggers the production of my book with which I provide all the comprehension from people involved in this story by juxtaposing their dialogues contains the word "know". Each sentences extracted from the film was under the construction of storyline about their understanding of the situation inside the film. But here in my book, I want to present an external way of reading the film with all the existing images and texts. | ||
As André Breton pointed out the suggestive power of the arbitrary juxtapositions of words in the game of Exquiste Corpse. Here with my book project, I want to indicate the suggestive power of the juxtapositions of sentences, and more important of deconstructed narratives. | As André Breton pointed out "the suggestive power of the arbitrary juxtapositions of words was so stupefying and dazzling." in the game of Exquiste Corpse. Here with my book project, I want to indicate the suggestive power of the juxtapositions of sentences, and more important of deconstructed narratives. | ||
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From Dadaist poet Tristan Tzara, to the game of Exquisite Corpse developed by Surrealists writers, then to experimental literature group Oulipo, later on to William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, even earlier work The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr(1819-1821) by E.T.A. Hoffmann, all their works showed the fantasy and power of cut-ups. | From Dadaist poet Tristan Tzara, to the game of Exquisite Corpse developed by Surrealists writers, then to experimental literature group Oulipo, later on to William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, even earlier work The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr(1819-1821) by E.T.A. Hoffmann, all their works showed the fantasy and power of cut-ups. | ||
Several years later, a question-and-answer varian on the Exquisite Corpse produced a curiouly resonant definition:"What is André Breton? An amalgam of humor and asense of disaster; something like a top hat" | |||
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Intro to physical book
This book was produced using images and texts (subtitles) taken from the Roman Polanski's film, “The Tenant”. The images and texts are extracted at moments when characters say the word "know", and then the frames and texts are reassembled into the form of book. Some of the pages are designed to be shorter than the rest, which provides the opportunity for the reader to read across pages, and at different intervals.
“The Tenant” is a psychological horror film directed by Roman Polanski. The main character, Trelkovsky, is confronted by a mental conflict after he moves into the new apartment. The relationships among himself and the other neighbours become weird. He undergoes a transformation, and becomes the previous tenant. In the end, he dresses up again as a woman and throws himself out the apartment window in the manner of the previous tenant, Simone. He ends up bandaged in the same fashion as Simone, in the same hospital bed. But we see Simone's close friend Stella and Trelkovsky visiting himself in the hospital.
I was obsessed by the whole transposing from one person’s life onto another and the mutative relationships among him and other tenants that we see through out the story. These transformations triggered the production of my book. Sampling all incidents through out the story, I juxtaposed all the dialogues containing the word "know". Each sentence that was extracted from the script became my re-constructed storyline, and altered the perception of events . I want to present an external way of reading the film with all the existing images and texts.
Digital Book
From Dadaist poet Tristan Tzara, to the game of Exquisite Corpse developed by Surrealists writers, then to experimental literature group Oulipo, later on to William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, even earlier work The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr(1819-1821) by E.T.A. Hoffmann, all their works showed the fantasy and power of cut-ups.
Several years later, a question-and-answer varian on the Exquisite Corpse produced a curiouly resonant definition:"What is André Breton? An amalgam of humor and asense of disaster; something like a top hat"