Hi, Bernard. I often teach a Film on Photography course and just as often include Memento in the syllabus… only to remove it. Have you taught it? How does it work for students?
Thanks! j > On Jun 10, 2020, at 4:49 PM, Bernard Roddy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Albert: > > This is a nice invitation to read (I quote it below). For me it leaves too > much to consider. I had two reactions.First, I have been interested in > conceptual art's use of photography. Under these terms we would have to > impose a "post-photographic" restriction on what constitutes acceptable > examples in your list. I would submit a short list of classic texts written > by artists for publication in 1969 and 1970. > > But I also just taught a course in which I used standard narrative cinema in > order to think about traditional philosophical material. And the film, > Memento, became interesting for reasons having nothing to do with any > experimental film. > > Or so it would appear. One could undertake a whole research agenda in which > the role of memory in the understanding of shot relationships is explored. > This concerns the experience of the spectator when the questions concern the > order of events and their causal relationships. In his Matter and Memory > Henri Bergson was preoccupied by 19th century research that involves brain > lesions. Bergson uses results in neurophysiology to confirm his hypotheses > about memory. > > But it was in order to get a handle on Deleuze's reference to the memory > image that I found myself reading Bergson. Deleuze is extremely casual with > terminology, but Bergson isn't. What Deleuze means by the memory image and > the time image can only be appreciated, of course, by reviewing a history of > narrative cinema. But what Bergson means when he discusses research into > memory disorders can be appreciated by any artist working with images that > replicate perception. > > In Memento Leonard takes instamatic photographs that are developed before his > eyes. They are only part of his basis for deciding what he will do in the > future, but as images fixed on paper they make possible repeated experience > of the circumstances of some past event. > > Why burn a photograph documenting something you did? What is the significance > of a character's understanding of the value of a photograph for the > understanding that a spectator has of the plot? > > Bernie > > > - - - - - - > Hello all, > > I was making a list of experimental film practices on photography and I was > wondering if you could suggest more titles. > > At first I wanted to focus just on movies where photographs are deleted > (burned, destroyed) or denied but I only know *(nostalgia)* for Hollis > Frampton and the project *Found Monochromes* by David Batchelor (slides). > Does anyone know other films where the main purpose is the destruction or > the invisibility of photographs? > > On the other hand I have started a list of films made from photographs. > There are dozens of films (some of them animations) where the object of > analysis are still images, from filmed Polaroids to appropriation of > advertising images from magazines or the accumulation of digital images > found on the internet: > > *Transformation by Holding Time* by Paul de Nooijer > *Pasadena Freeway Stills* and *Hand Held Day* by Gary Beydler > *Production Stills* by Morgan Fisher > *Frank Film* by Frank Mouris > *Boy Meets Girl* by Eugènia Balcells > *Wall *by Takashi Ito > *Photodiary *by Takashi Ito > *Clandestine Porn Film* by Augustin Gimel > *DIES IRAE* by Jean Gabriel Périot > *The World as Will and Representation* de Roy Arden > > Do others come to mind? > > Thank you, > Albert Alcoz > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks j/PrM ************************************************* Take care; be well; wash your hands; safeguard all the distances! John Muse Assistant Professor of Visual Studies Haverford College he/him/his j=John PrM=Professor Muse http://www.finleymuse.com http://www.haverford.edu/faculty/jmuse https://haverford.academia.edu/JohnMuse https://www.instagram.com/johnmuseartist/ https://www.facebook.com/jmuse99 ************************************************* _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
