Filmmaker Andrei Tarkovski wrote he often wondered if it was worth writing about cinema. Wouldn't be better just make films and find practical solutions to theoretical problems throughout the work? Although there doubt, bet on as a way transform plane of ordinary where one acts in theme investigation and, thus, capture, with text, bulges perpetual flow real. In dialogue Tarkovski, we can unders...

Douglas Sirk, now fully recognized as an influential filmmaker, was considered a successful but uninteresting director in the 1950s. His melodramas were bland and subsequently ignored because they focused on female-centric concerns. In following decades, he started to be auteur that not only had impeccable vibrant mise-en-scène, also unique ability deliver movies might seem superficial surface ...

Facial expressions are of major importance in understanding the mental and emotional states of others. So far, most studies on the perception and comprehension of emotions have used isolated facial expressions as stimuli; for example, photographs of actors displaying facial expressions corresponding to one of the so called 'basic emotions.' However, our real experience during social interaction...

The experimental filmmaker James Benning has a unique way of approaching American life through radical film language. My paper addresses the question how material culture and design appear in Benning’s early work. A recurring feature is his preference for depiction landscapes, buildings, objects, vehicles over human characters that support viewer identification mainstream documentaries. In firs...

Contemporary reality presents the paradoxical world of information at its most extensive against the subsequent global spread of the individual's isolation. Isolation presented from the perspective of Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki. His film The Match Factory Girl is a story about human frailty, which brings us to recognize some of the weaknesses of our time and at the same time allows us to ...

This introduction provides context for a collection of articles that came out research symposium held at the Science Museum's Dana Research Centre in 2018 ‘ Demons Mind: Interactions ‘Psy’ Sciences and Cinema Sixties' project. Across range events outputs, Mind sought to map multifarious interventions influences ‘psy’ sciences (psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis) on film culture long 1960s. ...

Abstract This is a story about the ‘arts of noticing’ more‐than‐human noticing. In it I reflect on ways in which my own practice ethnographic filmmaking itself an agent multisensory participation. As artifice and artificial eye, there something both liberating sensuous practice. It heightens performativity participants their embodied rituals allows me to enter intimate spaces would otherwise no...

Greta Gerwig’s solo directorial debut Lady Bird (2017) hit screens during an extraordinary cultural moment in which stories of the abuse women suffer at hands powerful men were receiving unparalleled visibility. The #MeToo movement prompted entertainment industry to reflect upon issues diversity, equality, and women’s roles on off screen. As a woman filmmaker press circuit time, Gerwig was symb...

In this interview, Steven Feld, an anthropologist, filmmaker, musician, and sound artist, discusses his multimedia project on “Jazz Cosmopolitanism” in Ghana. From 2004, Feld started to study acoustemology—one’s sonic way of knowing being the world—from standpoint avant-garde jazz musicians visual artists Accra. He worked as a producer engineer, before performing musician with Accra Trane Stati...

The explorations of individual films that have previously appeared in these pages have quite rightly sought to associate themselves with wider social issues, with the craft of filmmaking and with the vocation of the filmmaker; thereby positioning the film within a wide range of socio-cultural issues. It’s with a certain trepidation, then, that I dedicate the entirety of this piece to the study ...