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After my group and I presented our film in class in week 9, we received critical feedback that pushed us to reevaluate our film in its entirety. We were informed that the film was very allegorical. We revisited week 8’s content on the desert and were inspired to represent trauma in the context of the
Jason De León (2015) conveys how the Sonoran Desert goes beyond being a foundation for human hardship, but rather serves as an active agent of violence. This week’s reading concentrated on De León’s exploration of how the desert, a supposedly natural landscape, has been seized by the USA’s immigration policy and made into a lethal
“Benning stands today as an important precursor to the non-pastoral attitude to ecological and environmental thought required by the Anthropocene, the acknowledgement of man as a dominant geological and climatic force” (Lübecker and Rugo, 2018, p. 2). Through the works of James Benning, we looked into how ‘nature’ is not a pure term as we
This week’s reading was incredibly thought-provoking. In ‘Affect and Environment in Two Artists’ Films and a Video’ (2014), Sean Cubitt leads his analysis by framing environmental matter within the substructure of the contrast between the ‘Apollonian’ and ‘Dionysian’ as introduced in The Birth of Tragedy (Nietzsche, 1872). Zeng (2024) elaborates on ancient Greek mythology, in
In this week’s lecture, we were introduced to cityscapes in experimental cinema, particularly how films frame and piece urban landscapes. The lecture highlighted the shift in city representation from ‘modernity’ to ‘postmodernity’. Modernity refers to cities built around commodities and labour, whereas postmodernity transitioned to be shaped around services and information. This shift in structure,
Avant-garde is a concept of experimental art that rejects the mainstream system of organisations. It roots from the French militant term ‘advance guard’; the troops at the front line of the main army soldiers. It describes the rejection of mainstream notions as the military avant-garde is ahead of the rest of the army, thus, physically,
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