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Parallax Dash

December 8, 2022/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2022_#Materiality

by Domietta Torlasco Glass, stones, water, steel: the body remembers the time of things in this short film about the Italian Alps and the almost obsessive walking habits of those who live there; along the way, unpredictable alliances are formed.  Author Domietta Torlasco is a filmmaker and critical theorist. She is the author of three […]

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Gli anni

December 8, 2022/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2022_#Materiality

by Sara Fgaier A woman narrates the script of Gli anni, a few pieces picked up on the shores of a timeless Sardinia. Neither the words nor the images claim to tell the whole of its story: the places of the past emerge as reverberations of a fragmentary and shifting memory, bathed in a new […]

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Most Fabulous Place

December 8, 2022/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2022_#Materiality

by Maha Maamoun Postcards of Egypt’s prime historical and touristic monument, the Pyramids of Giza, are flipped through to a soundtrack composed from dialogues occurring by the pyramids and sampled from a variety of Egyptian films. Author Maha Maamoun is an Egyptian visual artist and curator based in Cairo. Her videos and photographs address the form […]

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Second Sighted

December 8, 2022/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2022_#Materiality

by Deborah Stratman Obscure signs portend a looming, indecipherable slump. An oracular decoding of the landscape. Author Deborah Stratman makes films and artworks that question power, control and belief, considering how places, ideas, and society are intertwined. She regards sound as the ultimate multi-tool, and time to be supernatural. Recent projects have addressed freedom, surveillance, […]

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Song for Earth and Folk

December 8, 2022/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2022_#Materiality

by Cauleen Smith Earth sings a melancholic tale of disappointment. Folk fail to listen until it’s too late. We End. Structured like a blues song with a live-improvised electro-organic soundtrack. Author Cauleen Smith is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is rooted within the discourse of mid-twentieth-century experimental film. Drawing from structuralism, third world cinema, and […]

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Irresistible instrumentalism: Materially thinking through music-making in the story worlds of silent films

June 8, 2022/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2022_#Rumors

by Catherine Grant …the image of musical sound itself becomes contagious…[1]  Irresistible Instrumentalism, the video essay embedded above, explores the somewhat paradoxical depiction in early cinema of the visible playing by onscreen musicians of music that makes no sound in the world beyond the film’s diegesis – the portrayal of music, in other words, that […]

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The Gravity of the acousmêtre: Listening via the radio and through paratext in film     

June 8, 2022/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2022_#Rumors

by Liz Greene In 2013, two films were released that speak to each other via a radio conversation, Alfonso Cuarón’s feature length space adventure Gravity, and Jonás Cuarón’s short film Aningaaq. Both father and son, Alfonso and Jonás Cuarón, wrote the screenplay for Gravity, and while in the process of the film’s production Jonás made […]

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Synced

June 8, 2022/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2022_#Rumors

by Johannes Binotto The coupling of optics and acoustics in cinema is never a natural given, but always a construction dependent on technological intervention. As we all know, moving image and sound recording, although both already invented, failed for a long time to come together because they lacked synchronicity. Attempts to run a gramophone record […]

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The place of the pop song in academic audiovisual film and television criticism

June 8, 2022/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2022_#Rumors

by Ian Garwood ‘The Place of the Pop Song in Academic Audiovisual Film and Television Criticism’ contributes to a discussion about the use of the pop song in the scholarly audiovisual essay, an area of videographic practice that has inspired scant self-reflection to date. The video operates in an explanatory mode, so I will allow […]

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‘Le Plaisir’: Voices and viewpoints

June 8, 2022/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2022_#Rumors

by John Gibbs and Douglas Pye One impulse, as we began to think about collaborating on this project, was to explore some of the potential of binaural sound in an audiovisual essay. This coalesced with our love of Max Ophuls’ movies, and with previous work on Le Plaisir, to suggest an essay in which voices […]

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Sound and the audiovisual essay, part 2: The theory, history, and practice of film sound and music in videographic criticism

June 8, 2022/in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2022_#Rumors

by Liz Greene This is the second part of a curated two-part audiovisual section on sound and music for NECSUS. The first section contained four audiovisual essays that centred on dialogue, music, and effects and was published in Autumn 2020. This second part (in the main) addresses theory, history, and practice in film sound and […]

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Murky Waters: Submerging in an aesthetics of non-transparency

December 13, 2021/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2021_#Futures

by Jaap Kooijman and Patricia Pisters ‘Transparency no longer seems like the bottom of the mirror in which Western humanity reflected the world in its own image. There is opacity now at the bottom of the mirror, a whole alluvium deposited by populations, silt that is fertile but, in actual fact, indistinct and unexplored even […]

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Sound and the audiovisual essay, part 1: Dialogue, music, and effects

November 29, 2020/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2020_#Method

This first part of a two-part issue on sound and music in the audiovisual essay considers the contribution of discrete areas of sound and music to film. Presenting these different approaches to researching sound and music provides an opportunity to collectively investigate the integrated soundtrack.

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The Elephant Man’s Sound, Tracked

November 29, 2020/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2020_#Method

by Liz Greene ‘The Elephant Man’s Sound, Tracked’ sets out to investigate the clean-up of a line of dialogue, ‘I am not an animal, I am a human being, a man, a man’, in David Lynch’s The Elephant Man (1980), and explores the possibility of an alternate soundtrack or even picture edit being cut for […]

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Talking [Heads] About Whitney

November 29, 2020/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2020_#Method

by Jaap Kooijman Talking Heads About Whitney from Jaap Kooijman on Vimeo. Although about Whitney Houston, this audiovisual essay does not contain any image or sound of the late superstar singer who was defined by her voice.[1] Instead, I have compiled the talking head interviews with Houston’s family members, friends, and business associates from two […]

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