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'''Juxtaposition''' - the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect | '''Juxtaposition''' - the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect | ||
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In the Blink of an Eye. Walter Murch | In the Blink of an Eye. Walter Murch | ||
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Revision as of 12:44, 20 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
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.
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