Film and Literature Studies

On Peter Pan

October 2nd, 2023

Scene from Mabou Mines Peter and Wendy with Karen Kandel. Photograph taken by Richard Termine.I remember reading Peter Pan as a kid, a version based on the 1953 Disney movie—based on J. M. Barrie’s story. It turned me on. I’m six or seven, and I’m flipping through the pages, and there’s a picture of Peter with his arms crossed and his back to Wendy. He’s angry with her for some reason, and it turned me on. The words, the image, the anger? All of it, some kind of thrill-ball a kid has no words...

Robert Breer’s Perpetual Motion Machine

June 14th, 2022

Since its inception the enigmatic and attractive nature of avant-garde animation has resided in both its seeming rejection of any overarching interpretation of the artwork per se and, ironically, the formulation of temporary understandings that come to the audience’s mind with every new viewing. The geometric and linear abstractions so prevalent in these works, when presented in sequence, generate a sense of ambiguity that demands new interpretations across time. Often remembered are the stra...

The reason why Ingmar Bergman hated Jean-Luc Godard films

August 12th, 2021

(Credit: Joost Evers / Anefo / Gary Stevens) The reason why Ingmar Bergman hated Jean-Luc Godard films Both Ingmar Bergman and Jean-Luc Godard belong to the elite stratum of filmmakers who facilitated the evolution of cinema. They have made some of the definitive cinematic masterpieces of the 20th century, including the likes of Persona and Pierrot le Fou. Inevitably, their works were always in discourse with each other due to th...

Scene of the Crime Stephen Broomer

April 8th, 2021

Art & Trash, episode 9 Louise Bourque: Scene of the Crime Stephen Broomer, April 8, 2021 Please note that this video contains stroboscopic imagery. Louise Bourque began to make films in the late 1980s as a student at Concordia University in Montreal. Since the mid-1990s, Bourque’s films have dealt with plastic manipulation of the film plane, in the form of scratches, chemical alteration, contact printing, and tricks of time affected by way of optical printing. Scene of...

Blue (1993) - IMDb

August 23rd, 2020

Blue (1993) 1h 19min |Biography, Drama|3 December 1993 (USA) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106438/mediaviewer/rm998543872?ref_=tt_ov_i Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both ... See full summary » Director:Derek Jarman Writer:Derek Jarman Stars:Derek ...

Antonin Artaud

March 21st, 2020

Antonin ArtaudSourceURL: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/antonin-artaud Poetry Foundation Antonin Artaud, considered among the most influential figures in the evolution of modern drama theory, was born in Marseilles, France, and he studied at the Collège du Sacré-Cœur. He moved to Paris, where he associated with surrealist writers, artists, and experimental theater groups during the 1920s. When political differenc...

Plenty - Joseph Cornell

August 1st, 2019

Plenty: Joseph CornellSourceURL: http://secretcinemauk.blogspot.com/2011/06/plenty-joseph-cornell.htmlPLENTY: JOSEPH CORNELL London Event Gallery Monday 20 June 2011, from 7pm The free screening series PLENTY proposes a new way of looking at artists’ films by showing only a single work, regardless of its duration. Each film is given the freedom to unfold on its own terms, and the viewer is given the time and space to consider it. A Fable for Fountains (Joseph Cornell & Rudy Burckhard...

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