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“Where Does This World End?” Space, Time and Image in Harun Farocki’s Parallel I-IV

Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies, 2023
Harun Farocki’s last completed installation film, Parallel I-IV, opens with a collection of video game landscapes grouped together by elements of earth, fire, water, and air, engaging a non-vococentric film essay style to reflect upon material ...
Joshua Synenko
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Cinephilistinism and the Second Coming

Film-Philosophy
This article argues that Palestinian cinema can collectively be understood as adopting a crip aesthetic that gives expression to how, after Jasbir K. Puar (2017), Palestinians are routinely and systematically rendered disabled, or debilitated, by the ...
William Brown
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IT’S ABOUT TIME: Trying an Essay Film

Text Matters, 2020
This essay is about the essay, a form (as Adorno called it) of thought alive that is partial in the two senses of the word: subjective and fragmented. Thinking as social, performative, and always un-finished; as dialogic.
Mieke Bal
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12 Angry Men (1957)

2i Revista de Estudos de Identidade e Intermedialidade, 2022
This essay focuses on the imagetic power of the word as a central element of the film 12 Angry Men (1957), directed by Sidney Lumet, with a screenplay by Reginald Rose from his writings and TV special (CBS, 1954, directed by Franklin Schaffner).
Helciclever Barros da Silva Sales
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Notes on a Genre to Come: Screenwriting and the 'Thesis-film' [PDF]

, 2013
This piece draws together two areas: screenwriting and film or video works (to be jointly referred to as ‘films’) that explicitly try to undertake a conceptual practice.
Maras, Steven
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Agnès Varda and Essay film

, 2021
In this thesis study, I explore the essay film as a form, specifically in the cinema of Agnès Varda. By demonstrating how Varda practices essayistic filmmaking, I discuss some definitions and characteristics of the essay film. Since the essay film crosses the boundaries and manages to take place either outside the scope of documentary or fiction, I ...
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Collective Subjectivity in the Essay Film

Ekphrasis. Images, Cinema, Theory, Media, 2021
It may seem paradoxical to devote a reflection on “self representation,” as the title of this special issue has it, to the fundamentally collective nature of authorship. But in fact, it is not; for the subjectivity that shines through the essay, hence, also the essay film, is anchored in collectivity.
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A Film by Cine Mujer: A Video Essay

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2021
Following recent endeavours that have unearthed women’s cinema and reclaimed its contribution to film history, this video essay revisits the filmography of the Colombian feminist film collective Cine Mujer (1978–1999).
Lorena Cervera Ferrer
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The Essay Film and Space: The Essayistic Filmic Space as aLocation of Thought [PDF]

, 2014
This practice-led research investigates the function of filmic space in essayistic discourse through the dialogic relationship between the essay film My Pink City that reflects on post-Soviet urban space in Yerevan and a written thesis that examines the ...
Gegisian, A., Gegisian, A.
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Ghost Stories: Review of Ross Gibson's The Summer Exercises [PDF]

, 2010
Back 
in 
1986, 
Ross 
Gibson
 was 
interviewed 
in
 Filmnews 
by
 Adrian
 Martin 
and
Tina
 Kaufman
 about
 his
 experimental
 short
 essay
 film
 Camera
 Natura
 (1984). Accompanying
 that
 interview
 was
 a
 photo
 of
 Gibson
 ‘on
 location’
 for
 his

Williams, Deane
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