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4 days ago · Honigmann's films are celebrated for their poetic and heartfelt portrayal of everyday life. Her unique approach to storytelling in both fictional and documentary formats has expanded the language of cinema. Her documentary "Metal and Melancholy," displaying the lives of Peruvian taxi drivers, is a prime example of her method.
3 days ago · Manoel leaves us with the essential Ruiz, the audio-visual companion to his extraordinary book Poetics of Cinema. (1) Its dizzying narrative fold-over-fold methodology creates a labyrinthine temporal structure. 1. Raúl Ruiz, Poetics of Cinema (Paris: Éditions Dis Voir,1995). Subsequent page references within the text.
5 days ago · Film - Visuals, Sound, Editing: Many observers have seen in films a means of expression comparable to language. The French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau, for example, called the cinema “picture writing.”
2 days ago · In the ethereal world of cinema, where each frame whispers a tale, cinematography reigns as the unseen maestro orchestrating visual symphonies that resonate with the soul. Setting the stage beneath a canopy of creativity, we embark on a journey through the lens to delve into the enigmatic beauty that resides in every shadow and gleam of light.
4 days ago · Aristotle’s Poetics, the most important work of literary theory in the Western tradition, undertakes to describe in systematic fashion the major forms of literature, the components of each, and how these elements contribute to the effects desired.
4 days ago · history of film, history of cinema, a popular form of mass media, from the 19th century to the present. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) Early years, 1830–1910
22 hours ago · Elin Käck, in “Elemental Poetics: Shores, Seascapes and Erosion in H.D.’s Early Poetry,” considers H.D.’s early poetry with a focus on the elemental. Käck argues that re-reading H.D.’s early poetry through this lens “allows a reading of her poetry as nevertheless mediating between [an] outside position and a more active, socially informed one.”
