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Fields of View: Film, Art and Spectatorship

Autor A.L. Rees Simon Payne
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 oct 2020
Drawing on film theory, literary modernism, psychology and art history, Fields of View elucidates an expanded network of connections between avant-garde film and wider culture. In this bold and original work, A.L. Rees identifies three key terms - 'field', 'frame' and 'interval' and charts their use by filmmakers and theorists such as Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein, Bruce Baillie, Maya Deren, Malcolm Le Grice and Werner Nekes, from the 1920s through to the present day. A seminal voice in film culture, Rees left the incomplete manuscript for this book on his death, and Simon Payne has subsequently carefully prepared the book for publication. Fields of View is an important work that establishes a unique perspective on experimental film.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781838719920
ISBN-10: 183871992X
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 68 bw illus; 19 colour illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 232 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția British Film Institute
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Foreword: Harvesting Fields
Acknowledgements
Fields
Film Machine
Film as Optic and Idea
Expanding Cinema
Room Films
Film Objects
Projection Space
Time Frames
Realisms
Asymptote
Digital Dialectic
Fields in Braque and Gehr
Classic Film Theory and the Spectator
Field and Gestalt
Monet, Lumière and Cinematic Time
Displacement, Sculpture
Bodies in Motion
Intervals
Methods of Montage
Frames
Frames and Windows
Constructivism and Computers
Geometry of Intervals

Notes

Recenzii

Al Rees's testament is a cinematic thinking: film and world swooping towards each other across a landscape of fields and intervals, projections and geometries, movements in and of time and space. On every page, the generosity of the man, the curator and the teacher shape new insights into our audiovisual century and its lineage. A work of permanent illumination.
In the unlikely event that there was any doubt, Fields of View affirms A.L. Rees as one of experimental cinema's most erudite, insightful, and passionate critics and advocates. His writings, which range across a breathtaking array of subjects, ideas, works, and references, are intelligent - frequently brilliant - without ever devoting into intellectualism. They are astonishingly well-read without succumbing to mere scholasticism; we never lose the sense of an original voice, a distinct sensibility, and a great mind. Like all the best critical writing, Rees's is itself elegant, artful, provocative, and personal. This collection of essays is an excellent introduction for those unfamiliar with Rees, and a reminder to those of us who already knew his writing how important he was (and remains), and what great writing about art looks like.
In this posthumous collection of essays, A.L. Rees has woven his outstanding knowledge of avant-garde film into a startlingly original, and non-linear, reconfiguration of its history. With great agility and lightness of touch, his perceptive but unexpected juxtapositions between theorists and artists, ideas and technologies, movements and moments throw new light on key issues of film theory and aesthetics. This radical rejection of chronology, however, has an underlying message. Rees traces ways in which experimental art and artists' film have challenged traditions of space and time that, rather than abrupt rupture, create a direct connection with the forms of digital art. In the brilliant last chapters of the book, he zeroes in on this dialectic.