Articles
Marc Vernet: "This side" or the gaze of the
camera
Vernet's far-reaching article deals with a figure
of absence, the out-of-field space: the place of the camera, the invisible
foreground of the picture, which he terms as "en-déça" or "this side". Based on examples such as Halloween, Wolf, and Wings of Desire he analyses the visual elements that make the
examined space subjective. His article is unavoidable in case we are dealing
with point of view, ocularization, or subjective camera.
Pascal
Bonitzer: Out-of-field spaces
The article
focuses on the out-of-field cinematic space. Bonitzer emphasizes the essential
otherness of the out-of-field space contrary to other theoreticians, such as
Bazin (who conceives it as a condition of the impression of reality), Burch (who
sees it as imaginary space), or Baudry (who understands it as the place of the
apparatus). Bonitzer's critique of these approaches brings about a radical
openness and dividedness of cinematic space.
Izabella Füzi: Theories of the narrative film
The article examines the relation between
narrativity and the cinematic medium: the equidistant frames, i.e. formalization
performed by the camera is devoid of narrative; temporal and spatial continuity
is provided by secondary articulation (shots and scenes), which functioning as
a fundamental condition of narrativity. The second half of the article deals
with different interpretations of Rear
Window and analyses different conceptualizations of narrative continuity
and narrative reception in film theory.
Miklós
Sághy: The function of the camera and of the gazes in Ozon's La petite mort
My essay is on the short-film, La petite mort (1995) by Francois Ozon.
The main question of my analysis is the way the subject of the protagonist,
Paul is constructed and de-constructed by the gazes to which he is exposed. Another
crucial part of the interpretation is the way the visual representation
techniques and signifiers (camera and photo) take part in the processes of subject
construction and de-construction.
Zoltán
János Tóth: Exoticism and Allegory
By analyzing
works of the Kossuth Prize-winner photographer Péter Korniss from the album
entitled Inventory, the author of the
article focuses on the notion of exoticism and the ways it is created through
methods of photography. The pictures included in the discussed series were
taken by Peter Korniss during his journeys to Transylvania
during a period lasting nearly thirty years, between 1967 and 1998. These
pictures, which may be categorized as examples of documentary and social
photography, aim at representing the rural society of Transylvania
as culturally pure and intact. The author scrutinizes the discursive and visual
tools that make a phenomenon exotic, and examines the ethical and aesthetic
consequences of presenting the topic of a picture as exotic in documentary
photography.
Students' Workshop
Anett,
Dávid: Peter Greenaway or "boundless" bounds of theater and film
The article analyses the connection of theater
and film through the film entitled The
Baby Of Macon by Peter Greenaway, with special regard to those forms of
expression that became the director's trademark. In the essay I try to find
examples of border crossing between the two disciplines of arts, and focus on
the problems of staging, framing and alteration of space. The director alloys the props of theater and
film in unusual ways, he plays with the frame and with the audience as well. He
creates interaction between theater and film with the special application of
props such as editing with light, changing the point of view or the role within
a role, and he dresses his vision in a "baroque gown".
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