Voice under /
"How can the language and imagery of film be used to reach beyond language and imagery? How can a more capacious imagination be activated? The unique potential of film exists in its dizzying ability to create other images and other worlds. Film opens us up to the sensuous. When film activates o...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Milan-Italy :
Mousse Publishing,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | X position,
no. 25 |
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| Summary: | "How can the language and imagery of film be used to reach beyond language and imagery? How can a more capacious imagination be activated? The unique potential of film exists in its dizzying ability to create other images and other worlds. Film opens us up to the sensuous. When film activates our memories and feelings, it also creates the possibility of other and different ways of being with them. That is what is filmic about film, and this potential is a queer potential. Because what is queer cannot be reduced to what is visible to the camera. Poetry contains life, resistance, fragmentation and friction in ways that are very concrete. 'voice under' is a poetic kind of truth. A poetic trans-truth. Constantly alive, constantly bubbling and vibrating, part of a larger collective fabric of accumulated experience."--Outside of detached half-height wrapper. "How do you find ways to depict a queer reality? If voice over is the superior voice that dictates truth, then 'voice under' is a voice of other truths that exist simultaneously."--Outside of detached half-height wrapper. "'voice under' is at once a chorus and a million unique songs. It is the voices of the banished, in you and in the world. Which, though you try to deny them with all your schedules and your feeds, are in and of themselves your soft center. If we listen, a swarm of insights awaits us. From afar, beneath, inside. Far away, and right here."--Inside of detached half-height wrapper. How can the language and imagery of film be used to reach beyond language and imagery? How can a more capacious imagination be activated? The unique potential of film exists in its dizzying ability to create other images and other worlds. Film opens us up to the sensuous. When film activates our memories and feelings, it also creates the possibility of other and different ways of being with them. That is what is filmic about film, and this potential is a queer potential. Because what is queer cannot be reduced to what is visible to the camera. Ester M. Bergsmark's 'voice under'--the very first book of Swedish film director, artist, and artistic researcher Ester M. Bergsmark--gathers a collection of texts which explore and play with the concept of 'voice under' through encounters, with examples from Ester M. Bergsmark's filmmaking; from other filmmakers and artists (Wu Tsang, Janis Rafa, Chantal Akerman, Wong Kar-Wai, Trinh T. Minh-ha, May Zetterling, Vika Kirchenbauer, Andrei Tarkovsky, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Carolee Schneemann, and Derek Jarman et cetera); as well as more theoretical renderings of bodies, gender, trans experiences, desire, violence, and trauma. The intention is to open up a wider sensory register in both the creation and the experience of film by looking closely at, challenging, and playing with different cinematic conventions around truth, authenticity, storytelling, the visual, and the visible. |
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| Item Description: | "Translation from Swedish by Sara Wengström and Kira Josefsson."--Page 224. "This book is part of the doctoral thesis in artistic research 'voice under', which apart from this book also consists of a performative film screening."--Page 223. Embedded footnotes, chapter titles, and other material printed in orange. |
| Physical Description: | 224 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Filmography: pages 215-216. Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-219). |
| ISBN: | 9788867495993 8867495992 |
| ISSN: | 2002-603X ; |