Landscape, Travel, and the Gaze in Experimental Film and Video

Introduction Given the paucity of material offering in-depth scholarly analyses of experimental film and video from both traditional and revisionist theoretical perspectives, this special issue of Papers on Language and Literature responds to a growing need for publications in the field other than w...

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Published inPapers on language & literature Vol. 57; no. 1; pp. 3 - 115
Main Author Boczkowska, Kornelia
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Edwardsville Southern Illinois University 01.01.2021
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
Subjects
Anthropomorphism
Artists
Avant-garde
Cameras
Essays
Experimental films
Feminism
Motion picture directors & producers
Posthumanism
Postmodernism
Soundscapes
Spectatorship
Tourism
Travel
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Summary:Introduction Given the paucity of material offering in-depth scholarly analyses of experimental film and video from both traditional and revisionist theoretical perspectives, this special issue of Papers on Language and Literature responds to a growing need for publications in the field other than wide-ranging anthologies, edited books, or collections of interviews. Located at the intersection of cultural geography, architecture, urban planning, art history, and tourism, to mentionjust a few disciplines, landscape emerges from an ongoing interaction between humans, nature, and the environment and is commonly defined as "a multifaceted and pluridisciplinary spatial object whose meanings and representations extend from real-life environments to art" (Lefebvre, Introduction xiii). Spanning over eighty years of avant-garde filmmaking practice, the essays put the special focus on women's work and offer both historical and contemporary perspectives on a wide array of artist-made moving images, some of which are located on the periphery of the experimental film scene. [...]the articles shed new light on material so far hardly or never explored in scholarly terms, including rare found footage film (Joseph Cornell's Bookstalls, circa. late 1930s), slow ecocinema in experimental film, VR nature films, and the 360 degree video (Emily Richardson's Aspect, 2004;James Benning's Nightfall, 2012; Walking in the Woods, 2016; Relaxing Walk in the Forest, 2017), the postmodern city symphony and landscape film (Ernie Gehr's Side/Walk/Shuttle, 1992; Runa Islam's Time Lines, 2005; Laura Kraning's Meridian Plain, 2016) and multichannel, interdisciplinary film installation (prOphecy sun's Feminist Bodies in Posthuman Mountain Imaginary, 2020).
ISSN:0031-1294