Visual Arts History 2284E Lecture Notes - Anthony Mccall, Paul Sharits, Celluloid
21 Nov 2012
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Emergence of film as an art object in a gallery space. Mainstream films make us forget we are watching a film and instead focus on the illusion it creates. Structural/materialist films draw our attention to the fact that we are watching a film. They draw attention to the materials of the film. (ex. Flicker films draw attention to the movement on the screen being produced by a series of still slides moving through a projector) Structural/materialist artists all eventually began working with other ideas. Artists and filmmakers disillusioned with strutrual/materialist films. Paracinema identifies an array of phenomena that are considered. Cinematic but that are not embodied in the materials of film as traditionally defined (walley 18) Artists and filmmakers working with paracinema suggest that the essence of cinema cannot be reduced to the materials of film. Importance to us: if cinema is defined by celluloid film then nothing made digitally is cinema.
