Rony, Fatimah. “The Third Eye” re ethnographic time
The people depicted in “ethnographic film” are meant to be seen as exotic, as people who until only too recently […]
02. Theory
Selections from writing by filmmaker/theorists on political media.
Rouch, Jean. Cine-Ethnography, re cine-voyeur
Film is the only means I have to show someone else how I see him. For me, after the pleasure […]
Rouch, Jean. Cine-Ethnography.
“In every film made there is cultural disruption.”
Rouch, Jean. Cine-Ethnography. Re doubles
I am at the point of reflecting on my own role as a taker and giver of doubles, as an […]
Silverman, K and Farocki, H. . “Speaking about Godard,” re undoing
Gay Knowledge also implicitly distinguishes itself from Marx on a second point. It seeks not merely to rethink man, but […]
Silverman, K. “Speaking about Godard,” re degree zero
The zero point now has a radically new meaning: it signifies not a site of epistemological stability, a place where […]
Silverman, K. “Speaking about Godard,” re the void
Emile suggests that what Gay Knowledge has finally made possible is not an objective knowledge of “the workers,” or “the […]
Silverman, K. “Speaking about Godard,” re truth
Patricia proposes a radically new reading of the categories of truth and falsehood. She asks, “what is a false image?” […]
Solanas & Getino, Towards a Third Cinema, culture & imperialism
“The culture, including the cinema, of a neocolonized country is just the expression of an overall dependence that generates models […]
Solanas and Getino, “Toward a Third Cinema” re national awareness
Mass communication tend to complete the destruction of a national awareness and of a collective subjectivity on the way to […]