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The play of iconicity in Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built

June 14, 2020/1 Comment/in Features, Spring 2020_#Intelligence /by Greg DeCuir

This article studies the function of the iconic sign and the operation of diagram-icons in Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built (2018), a film about a serial killer Jack (Matt Dillon) who builds a house of corpses before being escorted to hell. What is remarkable in this film is von Trier’s specific use of filmic iconicity in probing the value of Western icons in art and architecture. In voiceover digressions from the narrative action following Jack’s serial killing, a comparison is made between the iconic power of murder on a grand scale (specified as genocides throughout history) and culturally valuated icons of art and architecture. The article focuses on the audiovisual icons in the film that invites the audience to diagrammatic readings and fabulation throughout and beyond the film’s narrative content. After a short introduction to the iconic sign and the diagram-icon respectively, the exploration of the film takes its starting point in how Jean-Luc Godard used the iconic force of the color red in Pierrot le Fou (1965). Even though the significant use of red throughout The House That Jack Built is justified within the context of serial killing, its many reiterations also qualifies ‘red’ as a diagrammatic feature combining iconic elements transversally. This diagrammatic feature foregrounds the film’s fabulatory and haptic levels beyond its strictly narrative content, making way for the wider philosophical comments expounded ‘in the film’ by the figure of Verge (Bruno Ganz). His extradiegetic voice becomes intradiegetic in the last part of the film as his body appears, acting as a guide for Jack into a version of Dante’s hell. 

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Lecture Series – ‘Kracauer Lectures in Film and Media Theory’

May 1, 2020/in News /by Greg DeCuir

The online media repository media/rep/ – which also provides PDF downloads of our issues – has made several lectures from the ‘Kracauer Lectures in Film and Media Theory’, held at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, available online. The lecture series, named in honor of the Frankfurt-born philosopher, sociologist, and writer Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), presents innovative […]

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Themed Playlists

April 11, 2020/in News /by Greg DeCuir

The Centre for Screen Cultures at the University of St Andrews has asked staff members, visiting lecturers and PhD students to create themed playlists covering film, television and video. Ranging from contemporary films on human isolation to a playlist centered on documentarian Naomi Kawase, the playlists function both as resources for teaching as well as […]

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Call for festival reviews: Film festivals and COVID-19

April 9, 2020/in News /by Greg DeCuir

As film events are currently being cancelled, postponed or moved online, we are specifically inviting “festival reviews” that deal with film festivals in the context of COVID-19 for the film festival review section of our upcoming Autumn 2020 issue.  What tactics and strategies are employed to face the current crisis in the festival world? Possible […]

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Autumn 2020_#Method, call for submissions

January 19, 2020/in News /by Greg DeCuir

‘There is a point at which methods devour themselves.’ – Frantz Fanon (Black Skin, White Masks) One can observe, in recent years, an obsession with methods – both in humanities research and teaching. Discussions include apprehensions about the imminent obsolescence of established media studies methodologies, a more liberal (in all senses?) search for synergies with […]

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Both inside the circle and out: Béla Tarr’s ‘Missing People’ at the Vienna Festival

December 21, 2019/in Autumn 2019_#Gesture, Exhibition Reviews, Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

One must imagine Béla Tarr busy. Even though he has repeatedly insisted on the fact that he considers himself retired – at least as a director of feature films[1] – he has not stopped working since the release of The Turin Horse (2011). Currently, he is preparing a book project;[2] between 2013 and 2017 he […]

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Film diplomacy in action at the 23rd Boston Turkish Festival: A critical look at immigrants efforts to promote Turkish culture

December 21, 2019/in Autumn 2019_#Gesture, Festival Reviews, Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

In the turmoil of political relations between the US and Turkey, cultural activities build bridges that facilitate diplomacy and mutual understanding. In this report, I explore how the 23rd Boston Turkish Festival (BTF) serves as a deployment of film diplomacy and presents a strategic image of Turkey in the US via films. The themes covered […]

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Blackout / IFFR

December 21, 2019/in Autumn 2019_#Gesture, Exhibition Reviews, Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

Upon entering the exhibition Blackout in Rotterdam’s Kunsthal it took a few moments to adjust one’s eyes to the darkness. Rather than a typical white cube of a museum or gallery space, the exhibition instead filled a cavernous space marked predominantly by black walls and low light. Within the darkness, in the space’s various enclaves, […]

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The Mighty Maestro on Screen

December 21, 2019/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2019_#Gesture /by Greg DeCuir

by Evelyn Kreutzer In this audiovisual study, I look at music-performative gestures of ‘fetishisation’. Against the backdrop of the mid-century celebrity conductor figure, as well as larger historical discourses around mediated music consumption, I focus on two conductors in two films, which draw on the same musical composition: Disney’s Fantasia (1940) and Hugo Niebling’s Pastorale […]

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On gesture, or of the blissful promise

December 19, 2019/in Autumn 2019_#Gesture /by Greg DeCuir

by Miriam de Rosa   Then at one point I did not need to translate the notes; they went directly to my hands. — Francesca Woodman   Often I believe I’m working toward a result, But always, once I reach the result, I realize all pleasure was in the planning and executing the path to […]

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Experimental Film and Artists’ Moving Image, call for proposals

October 26, 2019/in News /by Greg DeCuir

Palgrave Macmillan is delighted to announce the newly launched book series Experimental Film and Artists’ Moving Image. The series is edited by Kim Knowles (Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK) and Jonathan Walley (Denison University, Ohio, US). This is the first academic book series on experimental film and artists’ moving image and provides a home for cutting-edge […]

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Screen Studies Conference 2020

September 30, 2019/in News /by Greg DeCuir

The 30th International Screen Studies Conference, taking place at the University of Glasgow on 26-28 June 2020, welcomes proposals for papers, panels and audiovisual essays. The conference is organised by Screen editors Tim Bergfelder and Dimitris Eleftheriotis. The organisers particularly encourage contributions to a programming strand which will focus on the impact that recent calls […]

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Alternativa Research Forum, Virtual Anthropology

August 29, 2019/in News /by Greg DeCuir

Alternativa Research Forum, Virtual Anthropology, 13 December 2019 organised by Meghanne Barker and Greg de Cuir Jr Call for submissions: ‘Virtual’ promises to bring us closer to an experience, but acknowledges that it cannot take us all the way there. Researchers and artists have long experimented with the moving image and its potential to bring […]

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The film is the museum: Ken Jacobs, Gus Van Sant, Mark Lewis, and Pierre Perrault

May 27, 2019/in Features, Spring 2019_#Emotions /by Greg DeCuir

by Barbara Le Maître, translated from the French by Claire Labarbe[1] In the last twenty years, the question of the relationship between cinema and the museum has been raised in multiple theoretical and practical contexts, giving rise to a number of discussions about the exhibition of moving images, the use of the medium of film […]

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The exact shape of the world? Media and mapping

January 28, 2019/in Autumn 2018_#Mapping /by Greg DeCuir

by Giorgio Avezzù, Teresa Castro, and Giuseppe Fidotta ‘There’s something to knowing the exact shape of the world and one’s place in it – don’t you agree?’ – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Gore Verbinski, 2006) Among the different critical turns that have been reshaping recent media scholarship, the emphasis on space and spatiality […]

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