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③ Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

③ Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

AFTER NATURALISATION: CINEMATIC TIME AS RULING METAPHOR How to get around this? how to get around the cinematograph perfectly representing a continuous motion? It’s possible to point out the paradox, no next one, always a next, or to translate Zeno’s paradoxes for the moving image, and peg time

② Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

② Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

introducing ① Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time (sections 1 - 9)

introducing ① Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time (sections 1 - 9)

theory

lectures on moving image: theory | context

lectures on moving image: theory | context

Below please find links to a series of lectures I delivered to first-year students, before they specialised in digital image-making, film, motion graphics, VFX (very popular), game development (also very popular), animation or post-production, in 2022 at (although, since during COVID-19, distantly) AUT. Bergson, Deleuze & Cinema, comes out of

Bergson, Deleuze & Cinema

Bergson, Deleuze & Cinema

theatre | . . . : first half in epistolary form

theatre | . . . : first half in epistolary form

TECHNOLOGY series (I-IV)

TECHNOLOGY series (I-IV)

3 essays 3 endings: art research | theatre writing

3 essays 3 endings: art research | theatre writing

journal

Stranger than Fiction: taking 20th C. novel to the gleaners

Stranger than Fiction: taking 20th C. novel to the gleaners

Edwin Frank writes: "Trembling instability" describes the mobile perspective of Lawrence's novels (if they were films, the camera would be handheld). Lawrence writes, as I have said, with an almost somatic immediacy from the point of view of his characters. He also and equally writes from

Abe Kōbō - the (market form(ation) of the) state

Abe Kōbō - the (market form(ation) of the) state

Slavoj Žižek & Mr. Kežiž

Slavoj Žižek & Mr. Kežiž

QLIPPHOTH

QLIPPHOTH

bookmarked (Ig, NY: 2017): things forgotten because at the time perfectly usual

bookmarked (Ig, NY: 2017): things forgotten because at the time perfectly usual

I am outside light on a square white world

I am outside light on a square white world

excerpting The Subplot, Megan Walsh’s report on China’s literature, 2022

poetry

some lines after Jim Moore*

some lines after Jim Moore*

Jim Moore writes, Sometimes the world won’t let itself be sung. Can’t become a poem. And Sometimes, REM sing, everybody hurts and cries sometimes. I know the world is wrong I know sometimes a man is wrong, sings David Byrne, and—Michael Stipe, Hold on Take comfort—whereon

moieties*

moieties*

A Piece of Fabric, Tell it to the birds & lying in long grass - for my parents

A Piece of Fabric, Tell it to the birds & lying in long grass - for my parents

enantiomorphosis: the messianic | Danaë, or resistance

enantiomorphosis: the messianic | Danaë, or resistance

a journey (2016)

a journey (2016)

fr. Sweetheart, over____ (2006)

fr. Sweetheart, over____ (2006)

the pieces of ... soap

the pieces of ... soap

otherwriting

moving image: theory | context: lecture 10

moving image: theory | context: lecture 10

The last lecture raises two questions. One of them I hope to have made at least a partial answer to by the end of this lecture. One of them will be left more or less open. The question of the assassination by visual effects, CGI, of film: sounds criminal. But

moving image: theory | context: lecture 9

moving image: theory | context: lecture 9

moving image: theory | context: lecture 8

moving image: theory | context: lecture 8

moving image: theory | context: lecture 7

moving image: theory | context: lecture 7

moving image: theory | context: lecture 6

moving image: theory | context: lecture 6

moving image: theory | context: lecture 5

moving image: theory | context: lecture 5

moving image: theory | context: lecture 4

moving image: theory | context: lecture 4