Affective Rhythms: Experience of Trauma in Alan Clarke’s Films from the 1980s

Alan Clarke’s films from the 1980s are usually characterized as radical tests of boundaries social realism and narrative minimalism. As such, they have been described highly political, although their political potential relates primarily to form rather than content (plot or story). critical approach current affairs in Britain leads not only a stark pessimistic diagnosis state nation country but also an analysis national traumas 1980s. Specific formal strategies employed by director affective – he uses intersecting patterns different, persistent, repetitive rhythms, visual, aural, temporal, convey intellectual meaning affect viewer, immerse them kind trance-like experience. The author Jill Bennett’s reflections on trauma art analyse rhythmic designs two films: Road (1987) Contact (1985).