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 Continue reading

“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 Continue reading

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 Continue reading

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, Continue reading

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, Continue reading