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Digital Cinema, KEY:, teal - connection to course screenings, red - four…
Digital Cinema
Speed & Time - manipulating, accelerating, and fragmenting time and what this reveals about the experience of watching
Accelerationism
Social Network - "backstory" to digital capitalism, accelerationist by rapid editing and hacker / high pressure aesthetics
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Outside Connection: Fight Club. Super fast edits and story line movement create watcher engagement and drive an insane plot forward.
"...aesthetics of 'accelerationism' is that it can be used to 'exhaust' or 'disrupt' the same capitalist media institutions and ideologies that produced such forms, essentially by becoming as fast and fragmented as humanly possible." - Archer Reading
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Long Take
Russian Ark - one full take. about history, memory. only possible because of digital advancement.
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Timecode - four digital cameras, split screen, challenges typical presentation and narrative
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Outside Connection: Oldboy. the iconic hallway scene was filmed in one shot that encourges the user to realize the insanity of the situation.
"Long-take cinema...jettisons the spectator back into a semblance of everyday life, the experience of walking down the street, when the only "edits" we perform are in the blinking of our eyes ("cuts") and in the selection of scenes we choose to look upon." - Rombes Reading
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Realism - the construction of realistic emotion and situation on screen, heightened by digital tools that can both enhance and undermine
DV Humanism
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Outside Connection; Gummo. Removes traditional narrative to present purely moments from a small town
Found Footage
Blair Witch Project - found footage creates autencity and creates questions about indexicality and whether or not the camera can ever truly capture the reality
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Outside Connection: Project X. Uses found footage to increase emotional aspect and make you feel like you are a part of the film in a more positive sense
"contributed to an aesthetic of realism to the horror movie, the found-footage specimen takes this to extremes by literally framing the film as factual." - Sayad reading
Poor Image
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"The poor image is no longer about the real thing--the ordinary original. Instead, it is about its own real conditions of existence: about swarm circulation, digital dispersion, fractured and flexible temporalities. It is about defiance and appropriation just as it is about conformism and exploitation. In short: it is about reality." - Steryl reading
CGI
Corpus Callosum - utilizes CGI to transform and distort everyday events and spaces, pushing toward pure abstraction
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Speed Racer - CGI central! abandons classical continuity for aesthetic and visual overload, breaks from realism
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Outside Connection: Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Mans Chest. Uses CGI to replicate Davy Jones' face (tentacle face) and it still freaks me out today lol. Really great example of using CGI to realistically create impossible visual effects
Medium - conditions through which films are produced, distributed, and experienced
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Digital
Miami Vice - action and drug film with experimentation in documentary realism and aesthetic experimentation
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"digital film = live action material + painting + image processing + compositing + 2-D computer animation + 3-D computer animation" - Manovich
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Emotion and society - social, cultural, and ideological dimensions of cinema. how films interact with and represent complex concepts and feelings
Satire
Bamboozled - satirically interrogates history of Black representation in media, questioning race and nostalgia. shot on consumer grade digital video
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Outside Connection: Avenue Q (Broadway musical). Avenue Q uses puppets really similar to those of Sesame Street to discuss mature adult topics, creating an unique sense of uncomfort.
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Societal Focus
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Gleaners and I - small digital camera. very important for the DV technology ideals as it explores waste and memory, and in turn, political and humanist possibilities.
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Outside Connection: American History X. The blatant white supremacy and dialogue makes the watcher uncomfortable and exposes the arguments and structures of those ideals that shape our society today in a narrative structure.
Nostalgia
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Outside Connection: Michael (2026). A recent example, but recreates iconic scenes to create a sense of longing for past events that even those not alive in those times long to experience.
Post Modernism
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Outside Connection: Pulp Fiction. The overlapping storylines create a confusing but satisfying plot that creates questions and engagements.
"...postmodernism on which I have dwelt here--the transformation of reality into images, the fragmentation of time into a series of perpetual presents..." - Jameson reading
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