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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Film & Video"”.
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Some current problems in the verite approach to film/video documentaries
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1978.
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Film, Video, and Digitality: An Analysis of Cultural Form in Time-based Media
… of time-based image media, in particular live video. The project is practice-based with a theoretical underpinning drawn from the debates on form and meaning associated with Walter Benjamin.
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Architecture in real time : the interdisciplinary use of film, video and computer graphics for representing architecture
… examines the interdisciplinary application of film, video and computer graphics to architecture. Three projects provide the basis of research: 1) An "interactive" videodisc of the design and construction of the Sagrada Familia Temple in Barcelona. 2) A videotape sketch of an urban space, …
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Backdoors and Trapdoors: The Trappings of Homo/Transsexuality in Artists’ Film, Video and Photography, c.1989-1999
… By attending to the formal qualities of artists’ film, video and photography, this thesis elaborates on this limit as an aesthetic that also shaped articulations of the sexed subject according to corollary images of entrapment and escape. Taking up trans revisions of psychoanalysis, materialism …
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Everything is a Box
… to mass media in the form of television, film, video games and technology influence my studio practice. <em>Everything is a Box</em> presents the audience with works made through the lens of an artist raised in the United States during the late 1990s.</p>
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Sacred Screens: Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism and Islam in Popular Culture
… today. This thesis will study key examples of film, video game, literary, and television media to show how these artists weave their religiously inspired themes into their respective platforms. In using the rich stories and traditions to develop more in-depth landscapes and compelling …
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Visualising sport : A theory and practice of dramatic construction and cinematic form.
Between 1982 and 1991, I made twenty-five film/video productions involving sporting themes. These include both dramas and documentaries; popular action films for peak-time broadcasting and minutely researched specialised works. I am the only film director to have been official programme maker for …
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The elusive digital frame and the elasticity of time in painting
… apparatus and structures of 'experimental' film/video and photography. This work seeks to question what can cause the passing of time to become 'elastic' in the perception of the spectator encountering the 'strangeness' of painterly surface as an intense experience and asks how this …
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Into the Mainstream: Independent Film and Video Counterpublics and Television in Britain, 1974–1990
This thesis looks at independent film and video cultures in Britain from the mid 1970s to late 1980s. It examines a period of time in which diverse radical film- and video-makers in Britain contributed towards struggles against capitalism, patriarchy, racism, colonialism and homophobia. New social …
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Negation of Complicated Mirrors: An Examination of Differential Structures within the “Production of Subject” Realised through Creative Practice
… methods for practice-based research in fine art (video and multi-media installation) and in curatorial practices, residing in specific readings of Deleuze. The thesis looks into the potential presented by the mirror. Mirrors are symbolic references. Video has the capacity to be a mirror to the …
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Embodied Film and Experimental Ethnography: Place, Belonging and Performative Folk Traditions in England
This research addresses the ways in which film might be used to investigate senses of place and representations of place and ritual. It focuses on two seasonal performative folk traditions in rural England, Haxey Hood in North Lincolnshire and Mayday in Padstow. By considering the experiential …
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Choking on the madeleine: encounters and alternative approaches to memory in a contemporary art practice
This practice-based thesis proposes radical, critical, creative reconsiderations of memory and how the mnemic may be expressed in art practice. The research took place through developing a series of works within contemporary installation art practice, which considers the experience of memory an …
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How Can Solastalgia Restore a Lost Sense of Belonging to the Image? An autotheoretical attempt to return to a documentary practice and recover a filmic voice
… the documentary image. What if the documentary film image were considered as ‘that' place of significance or ‘home?' What if, as a result, creating an image could be understood as an act of belonging to that image? What if that relationship of belonging is under assault? In times when the …
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Diegetic stories in a video mediation: a narrative analysis of four videos
… is one element of a doctoral research based on a videotic mediation of four narratives. It functions as a critical reflection on the practical element of the research project and also analyses the theoretical issues arising from the videotic realisation of a diegesis. The text also works to expose …
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Tacit to Explicit: How Can ‘Gan Jue Cinema’ be Illuminated?
… scholarly gap through the production of my own video works, a curatorial practice, and a written thesis. It is a journey through my own experiences in exploring a form of felt presence of Gan Jue as it entangles my own audio-visual practice. It’s original contribution to knowledge includes new …
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Unbossed and Unbound: How can critical proximity transfigure British colonial moving images?
This research engages the Colonial Film Unit (CFU), and its history as the propaganda arm of the British Empire, to expose how the visioning technology of cinema and the archivisation of the CFU’s materials fuel the transformation of a racist colonial imaginary to fixed truths of the colonial black …
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The Black Body in Arctic Space: Revisioning Racialised Landscapes in the Films of John Akomfrah and Isaac Julien
… white space through an investigation of two films: John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses (2010) and Isaac Julien’s True North (2004). Framed within the context of Euro-American constructions of the territory through 19th and 20th century imperial masculine exploration narratives, my aim is to …
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Wujoud: Resistance strategies in the Syrian genocide?
… origin, I have continued to work with them as a filmmaker and advocate in various capacities. Stemming from this long-standing engagement, this practice-based research draws from a combined lineage of Militant Film and Expanded Cinema, questioning how this hybrid practice is capable of resisting …
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Between Being and Becoming: How Might Surprise Create New Meaning Co-ontologically in the Design Production and Reception of Immersive-Media?
Surprise is an inherent affect in immersive media design, production and reception. It enables what is implicit in experience to be made explicit through an immediacy in design practices, extending capability at the site of production. The development of new capability realised from a surprise …
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Not Art: An Action History of British Underground Cinema
… praxis which combines research, writing, film/video making, digital design, performance and political activism. My final submission will be an open and heterodox mesh of polemic, history and entertainment. Its key components will be a written thesis which will locate this praxis within its …
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