SOME NEW ELOQUENCE?

On the written word in audiovisual lm studies practice

Literature and Visual Culture Research Seminar, RHUL, Bedford Square October 16, 2013 Catherine Grant

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VIDEOGRAPHIC FILM AND MOVING IMAGE STUDIES

! The experimental, creative and critical, lm studies practices of remixing existing lm footage in forms situated along a spectrum from completely poetic through to solely explanatory. ! Practitioners are currently at the stage of primary exploration of potential formats, scope and value/ worth of videographic approaches, as alternatives or additions to conventional text-based academic research and publication processes and forms.

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SOME NEW ELOQUENCE?

! "it is the economy of critical word to illustrative image, the balance and weighting of their respective functions, that is slowly altering". ! If, along the hard road to illumination, the audiovisual essay manages to nd or create some new eloquence, some new sensation, or evoke some of that mad poetry [...] found in intense theorising, [] then thats all for the good
! Adrian Martin, 'In so many words', Frames Cinema Journal, 1, 2013. Online at: http:// framescinemajournal.com/article/in-so-many-words/

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DIGITAL FILM STUDIES IN THE CULTURE OF ONLINE FILM CRITICISM

Video essay by Catherine Grant: https://vimeo.com/28893042

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NOTES TO A PROJECT ON CITIZEN KANE Paul Malcolm

A Video essay by Paul Malcolm: https://archive.org/details/NotesTowardsAProjectOnKane

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COMPARATIVE FILM STUDIES

A Video Essay by Catherine Grant: https://vimeo.com/71971893

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CREATIVE CRITICAL FILM STUDIES

[Uncanny Fusion -an as yet unpublished video essay by Catherine Grant]

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SO IS THIS [A DEMONSTRATIVE CONCORDANCE]

! A videographic compilation of all of the instances of the demonstrative/deictic indicator 'this' in Michael Snow's 1982 experimental lm SO IS THIS, in the order and the duration in which they occur in the original 45 minute lm. This artefact silently asks the question: what is the point of this?

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