Search for dissertations about: "essay film"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words essay film.
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1. Darkness as Material
Abstract : The doctoral project Darkness as Material, examines darkness as material and its relationship to cinematic storytelling. The study addresses different kinds of darkness: darkness in the image, darkness in the cinema theatre, darkness in the spectator where films are received and the darkness in the filmmaker, where the world is reflected and ideas are born. READ MORE
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2. An anagram of the ideas of filmmaker Maya Deren : creative work in motion pictures
Abstract : Maya Deren’s corpus of work, which has been given various designations within the American avant-garde filmmaking practice of the 1940’s and 1950’s, will be analysed according to the biographical legend—an approach that focuses on authorship within the historical conditions of conception and reception. Influences on her theories in art and ethnography will be noted through several historical discourses: the French Symbolist Poets, Henri Bergson, Kurt Koffka, T. READ MORE
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3. Geo-Aesthetical Discontent: Svalbard, the Guide and Post-Future Essayism
Abstract : Propelled by the acute ecological crisis, Geo- Aesthetical Discontent: Svalbard, the Guide and Post-Future Essayism moves between artistic affinities and academic disciplines to craft an intervention into the imaginary of an Arctic place. Designed as an iterative set of artistic practice experiments with live editing, the aim is to demonstrate a geo-aesthetical discontent upon terrains with colonial history for visual production. READ MORE
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4. For every word has its own shadow: Sunsets, Notes From Underground, Waves
Abstract : Liminality permeates this doctoral project's questions: how can an experience of the liminal exist as an artwork? What things and experiences can orient us towards affectivity and states of becoming? Lisa Tan relates such concerns to Clarice Lispector whose writing renders becoming(s) visible. Coupled with Maurice Blanchot and his literary discourse on dispossession and the outside (analogous to becoming), Tan's inquiry is critically engaged inside a moving image practice. READ MORE
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5. You Told Me – work stories and video essays : Verkberättelser och videoessäer
Abstract : You Told Me is a practice-based research project and consists of three video biographies (the Who is…? series), and two video essays (Kumiko, Johnnie Walker & the Cute (2007), Madame & Little Boy (2009), an introduction with a contextualization and methodology of the field, and three essays. The dissertation is an observation and analysis of certain functions and meanings of narration and narratives in contemporary art, as well as being an experiment with roles, methods, actions, and narrative functions in an artistic medium – the video essay. READ MORE
