MON22JUL ESTHER LESLIE: The Animated Aspect of Brechtian Cinema @ no.w.here 19:00 (£5/3) This session explores the relationship of animation to radical conceptions of the subject. Drawing on Marx’s theory of the abbreviated, punctuated self in relation to the machine, it places animation as a form in a critical relation to the disenfranchisements of industrial capital. Its aesthetic, its jerky, stop-starting mode, its seriality, its brutality emulates bureaucratic and machinic existence. But animation had its moment, a more or less hand drawn one. Now most mainstream film tends towards being animated, digitally. How do our still abbreviated selves find expression in these various contemporary modes of film making? I am curious about two seemingly different moves. There is the return of an overt and theatrical Brechtianism in radical film – in, for example, Zoe Beloff’s The Days of the Communeand Mike Wayne and Deidre O’Neill’s The Condition of the Working Classes. These are films of ideas, in which a series of dialectical relays are discharged, between an old text and a current moment, between spaces, between acting and being, acting and filming acting no-w-here.org.uk/index.php?cat=1&subCat=docdetail&&id=377
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