Julian, I & Mercer, K. “De Margin and De Centre” re essentialism
Hall’s argument that current shiftes demand the recognition of the “end of the innocent notion of the essential black subject” […]
02. Theory
Selections from writing by filmmaker/theorists on political media.
Julian, I & Mercer, K. “De Margin and De Centre” re realism
In cinematic terms the challenge to documentary realism is predicated on a relational conception of representation as a practice of […]
Julien, Isaac. “Black Is, Black Ain’t” re open-endedness
Black is an open-ended identity. 255
Karl Marx, Isolation From Practice
“The dispute over the reality or non-reality of thinking that is isolated from practice is a purely scholastic question.” (Theses […]
MacDougall, David. “Beyond Observational Cinema,”
Invisibility and omniscience. From this desire it is not a great lerap to begin viewing the camera as a secret […]
MacDougall, David. “Transcultural Cinema,”
To speak of the film subject at all is to speak of this shared space, willed with such intensity into […]
Martineau, B.H. “Talking about,” re subjet/object
I don’t know if attention to film codes is sufficient to discover whether a given film approaches its protaganists and […]
Martineau, BH “Talking about our lives and experiences”
The relationship of commitment between filmmaker and film subject, and between these two and the audience, provides a little-discussed dimension […]
Marx/Engels Internet Archive
Marx Engels Archive
Maya Deren’s theory
I think Maya Deren’s theory on cinematography is interesting. Her idea that taking an image itself means you’ve created a […]