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Every Element in a Film Narrates’: The Complex Language of Heterogeneity in Idées Fixes / Dies Irae as a (Feminist) Critique to the Practice of Methodological Categorisation in Avant-garde Film History.
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Quotedious (video installation)
No full text“‘Can there be a world which is neither happy nor unhappy?” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-philosophicus Quotedious is a series of videos filmed between 2011 and 2016, viewed either one-byone in a randomly generated sequence, or simultaneously as a multiscreen installation, featuring the same person doing – largely – one thing each time, in each frame. The shots chosen are mostly of reworkings/rethinkings of daily routines, twisted and creatively transformed through the repetition of ‘boredom’ and/or the moment of self-realisation of performativity. Through an almost obsessive mechanical enactment, and oscillating between the trivial and the surreal, the videos discuss our relationship with the uncanny comfort of daily repetition, and tread the thin line between the delightfully automatic and the scarily self-reflexive. Pleasure and passivity coexist at all times, and the viewer cannot fathom whether the performer on screen is in any way emotionally affected by the actions he is performing, or at what exact point actions are signifiers of impact/change. The shots either wrap around themselves in loops or develop geometrically; in all cases they eschew the traditional satisfactions of narrative sense or closure, resisting the presentation of any sort of cause-and-effect connectivity. To invoke Kierkergaardian terms, in this video it is impossible to tell whether repetition is aiming backwards toward melancholy or forwards toward transcendence and happiness. What constitutes an acceptable, ‘sane’ enactment of routine action? How many brushes of the hair are reasonable before one is accused of OCD? How many Haribo Bears eaten in one go underline clearly enough the turn from a set-up of boredom to an act of celebration? Can a face be wrapped in cling film nonchalantly? And if so, how can a viewer be sure the same lack of joie de vivre is maintained as the repetitive layers of cling film defocus the performer’s face? Does the danger of deafening oneself become serious as the number of inner-ear cotton bud spins increase? Is this question even remotely valid, and is the overall work meant to be understood as bearing any resemblance or relationship to real life acts in the first place? These are some of the thoughts and questions that might come into your mind while browsing through this video collection. Feel free to add your own
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A selection of short films on the theme of post-truth. Interdisciplinary online conference
No full textIf so, how can psychoanalysis and other fields of thought help us illuminate the contours of this predicament?
Misinformation, misinterpretation and outright lies have been part of public discourse since the ancient world. However, what strikes us today is the imperviousness of falsehoods to correction through the presentation of facts. This phenomenon first caught public attention following the Brexit vote and election of Donald Trump – and in the past months, has massively intensified in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The poorly-defined term ‘post-truth’ indexes a series of contemporary political and psychic phenomena, including the collapse of traditional media and rise of social media; the ascendancy of extreme rightwing politicians; and the mainstreaming of conspiracy theories including ‘anti-vaxxers’, ‘COVID-truthers’, and ‘Q-Anon’.
Moreover, contemporary political antagonisms in the field of gender (from #MeToo to men’s rights, and from non-binary to trans exclusionary feminism) and race (from BLM to the so-called refugee crisis) have put the question of social justice face to face with problems of libidinal enjoyment, identification, and the manipulability of meaning.
On the cusp of the US presidential election and deepening political uncertainty around the world, this interdisciplinary digital conference brings critical and psychoanalytic interventions to bear on the question of politics and public discourse in the midst of the apparent collapse of trust in scientific and authoritative knowledge
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Q*inoGlaz: Manifesto for a Queer Pervert's (No-)Futurist Cinematic Reality
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Film and Poetry Symposium.
Get PDFThe relationship between image and text has been an interest of experimental filmmakers almost from
the beginning of cinema. Different methods of combining film and language / poetry have been proposed and introduced as terms in various phases of the 20th century, such as the film poem, poetry film, film essay, the video poem, text film, etc. In each of these types/genres, filmmakers experimented with methods of combining verbal language and image, such as the use of text on the screen (a tradition that begins already in silent cinema and reaches its peak within fluxus films), the use of poetic
voice over and spoken word (often with the poets themselves reading their own works), the idea of
actual language translations to pictures, as well as the research of poetic forms in the cinema, i.e. the
investigation of a concept of a more "vertical", lyrical filmmaking form that reminds of the tradition of
modernist poetry
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Queering the form: destabilising structures/ideologies in queer experimental cinema
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Avant-Drag!
No full textAvant-Drag! offers an exhilarating look at ten Athenian drag performers who deconstruct gender, nationalism, belonging, identity, while facing police brutality, transphobia and racism. As entertaining as it is thought-provoking, Avant-Drag! challenges societal norms and reshapes perceptions about LGBTQ+ culture by capturing the intimate lives of a tightly-knit group of drag performers, proving that being othered never felt so familiar.
Avant-Drag!, a poetic documentary about the political drag scene of Athens, premiered at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR) 202
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Technology and Transformations: Do we Need New Maps?
No full textFYTA -Fil Ieropoulos (Bucks New University) and Foivos Dousos (Royal Holloway)
POKEMON POETRY:
Transhuman/transmedia/transcultural/translative
Traversing a sea of broken screens, we build a new city.
We transmutate what is lost, we undo a history.
In this performative lecture, we attempt a theorisation of certain methodological gestures towards a trans-disciplinary future: zapping and flicking between media, genres, ideas. By utilising examples from our own work, as well as drawing theoretical arguments by a wide variety of future-oriented disciplines such as post-human, transgender and psychoanalytic studies we attempt to build a connective schema where the idea of passing from one medium to another is discussed and problematised in relation to new realities of embodied methodologies. In this context, we take into account certain technological advancements on the domain of prosthetic augmentation, debates on the relations between spatial reality and virtual phenomenology, and relevant input from queer theorisations of the gendered body. The main case study we will focus on is our work Pokemon Poetry, a work-in-progress that we have presented on a number of occasions, transforming and mutating into different media over the years
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Uchronia
No full textUchronia is a psychedelic docu-essay inspired by Arthur Rimbaud's visionary poem 'Une Saison En Enfer'. Rimbaud's ghost travels through history to encounter revolutionaries and queer freaks
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