artist lecture reflection : :
\nthinking about time (as subject) (as form) (as content)<\/p>\n
(in film) if time becomes the subject more-so than the subjects themselves, what then leads the artist’s decision in choosing specific (human, animal, or other) subjects? in what ways does time, in an attempt at claiming to be seen, consume the other subject? how do we compare (in film) the time-subject and human-animal-subject through understandings of recursivity\u00a0and temporality?<\/p>\n
TIME AS SPACE \/\/ SPACE AS A BODY<\/p>\n
“If the myth exists in the world, then how do we see it?” -Ben Russel
\n(((( WHAT ABOUT MULTIPLE MYTHS? ))))<\/p>\n
in ben russel’s first film showing of RIVER RITES i received very strong feelings of undoing, unbecoming, and uncleansing as i became a witness to\u00a0bodies absorbing their splashes, fabrics folding and unfolding, a language spoken in reverse. my sense of time became heightened as i listened closely to the sonic organization of sounds. soft voices and the movement of water felt slowed on their own, whereas with the addition of music, movement and action felt suddenly fast and disorienting. as the minutes passed\u00a0and i settled further into the film, i felt as if i myself became\u00a0in control of the time.<\/p>\n
time is constructed. on the individual level, i am affectively building it.<\/p>\n
RIVER RITES is not a reproduction. it is a representation. so i too build upon it through my own affective interpolation.<\/p>\n
so\u00a0what about _e_t_h_i_c_s_?______<\/p>\n
how does the film RIVER RIGHTS stimulate\u00a0epistephilia (a desire to know)? what, specifically, do we desire\u00a0to know about it? if documentary film conveys some sort of informing logic, persuasive rhetoric, or a moving poetics, how then are we (as spectators) promised\u00a0information and knowledge, insight and awareness?<\/p>\n
how does RIVER RIGHTS remind us that things share relationships in\u00a0time and space, not because of the editing, but because of their ACTUAL, HISTORICAL linkages?<\/p>\n
“documentary re:presents the historical world
\nby making an indexical record of it;
\nit represents the historical world by shaping this record
\nfrom a distinct perspective or point of view.” (Nichols, 36)<\/p>\n
why africa? what does this place mean to ben russel? what are his intentions? by undoing time is he also seeking to undo colonialist ideological perspective? because these subjects are being treated as “social actors” remaining cultural players rather than theatrical performers, how then are their own lives embodied on the screen? why does the camera produce a sense of voyeurism?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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