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② Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

② Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time

THE COMPACT CONTINUITY OF CONTINUOUS MOTION Russell would not answer a paradox with a paradox. Even if he didn’t have a good understanding of the mechanism of film, of its composition frame by frame and its potential decomposition into frames or into scenes, he would not. It’s all

I am outside light on a square white world

I am outside light on a square white world

digest

introducing ① Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time (sections 1 - 9)

introducing ① Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time (sections 1 - 9)

Digest is currently serialising the work, Bergson, Deleuze & Cinema, from the first part, entitled "Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time". Sections 1-9 have appeared here so far, they are compiled as ① for recent subscribers to outside light to catch up with the story so far ... CINEMATIC

theory

lectures on moving image: theory | context

lectures on moving image: theory | context

Below please find links to a series of lectures I delivered to first-year students, before they specialised in digital image-making, film, motion graphics, VFX (very popular), game development (also very popular), animation or post-production, in 2022 at (although, since during COVID-19, distantly) AUT. Bergson, Deleuze & Cinema, comes out of

Bergson, Deleuze & Cinema

Bergson, Deleuze & Cinema

theatre | . . . : first half in epistolary form

theatre | . . . : first half in epistolary form

TECHNOLOGY series (I-IV)

TECHNOLOGY series (I-IV)

3 essays 3 endings: art research | theatre writing

3 essays 3 endings: art research | theatre writing

journal

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Slavoj Žižek & Mr. Kežiž

Slavoj Žižek & Mr. Kežiž

QLIPPHOTH

QLIPPHOTH

bookmarked (Ig, NY: 2017): things forgotten because at the time perfectly usual

bookmarked (Ig, NY: 2017): things forgotten because at the time perfectly usual

excerpting The Subplot, Megan Walsh’s report on China’s literature, 2022

2 excerpts, from books to return to 🅰 “I’m not that into theater” 🅱 “feverish selfishness, and shit.”

Octavio Paz ~ Duración | Duration ~ from Salamandra | Salamander (1958 – 1961)

poetry

some lines after Jim Moore*

some lines after Jim Moore*

Jim Moore writes, Sometimes the world won’t let itself be sung. Can’t become a poem. And Sometimes, REM sing, everybody hurts and cries sometimes. I know the world is wrong I know sometimes a man is wrong, sings David Byrne, and—Michael Stipe, Hold on Take comfort—whereon

moieties*

moieties*

A Piece of Fabric, Tell it to the birds & lying in long grass - for my parents

A Piece of Fabric, Tell it to the birds & lying in long grass - for my parents

enantiomorphosis: the messianic | Danaë, or resistance

enantiomorphosis: the messianic | Danaë, or resistance

a journey (2016)

a journey (2016)

fr. Sweetheart, over____ (2006)

fr. Sweetheart, over____ (2006)

the pieces of ... soap

the pieces of ... soap

otherwriting

moving image: theory | context: lecture 9

moving image: theory | context: lecture 9

VFX is the art of contingency. We have been considering the time of contingency. For the mise-en-scѐne time is the condition of a character’s embeddedness in a time of contingency, where anything can happen, which, for us the viewer, is the time of historicity. Our first concept. We look

moving image: theory | context: lecture 8

moving image: theory | context: lecture 8

moving image: theory | context: lecture 7

moving image: theory | context: lecture 7

moving image: theory | context: lecture 6

moving image: theory | context: lecture 6

moving image: theory | context: lecture 5

moving image: theory | context: lecture 5

moving image: theory | context: lecture 4

moving image: theory | context: lecture 4

moving image: theory | context: lecture 3

moving image: theory | context: lecture 3

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Street Musicians (for Tassos Denegris) by John Ash

Obituary: Anthony Frederick Taylor 1937 – 2009

Cultural Colonisation: Dilemma of the small nation - Anthony Taylor (1982)

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lectures on moving image: theory | context

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theatre manifesto from the 90s

theatre | . . . : first half in epistolary form