Gravitational Pull: A Filmmaker in the Orbit of the Modernist Sun
The massive, still-burning modernist sun exerts a powerful gravitational pull on my filmmaking, setting me in orbit around the modernists in its core. Arcing solar flares of filmic and poetic modernism burst out at me: Maya Deren’s cine-poems, rhythmic editing, elisions of time/space; Ezra Pound’s i...
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School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
2023-12-01
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| description | The massive, still-burning modernist sun exerts a powerful gravitational pull on my filmmaking, setting me in orbit around the modernists in its core. Arcing solar flares of filmic and poetic modernism burst out at me: Maya Deren’s cine-poems, rhythmic editing, elisions of time/space; Ezra Pound’s imagism, T.S. Eliot’s objective correlatives. The form-expanding classical reception of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) in Helen in Egypt sparks my imagination and experimentation in my film grounded in the Homeric view of Penelope.
As I continue my orbit, there are more modernists pulling on me: Alain Resnais with his enigmatic editing structures and entanglements of memory; Michelangelo Antonioni’s emotional color and form present as objective correlatives, which lead me back full circle. One bright solar flare draws me repeatedly to Chris Marker’s La Jetée, in which a powerful image of the past fractures history. As I continue making films informed by and incorporating my receptions of the past, I remain warmed by the modernist sun’s force of attraction. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-50d787f87d2a41d782c9e5ac86680d142024-04-17T11:00:43ZengSchool of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GreeceEx-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media2585-35382023-12-0107739210.26262/exna.v0i7.94858343Gravitational Pull: A Filmmaker in the Orbit of the Modernist SunAndrea Eis0Oakland UniversityThe massive, still-burning modernist sun exerts a powerful gravitational pull on my filmmaking, setting me in orbit around the modernists in its core. Arcing solar flares of filmic and poetic modernism burst out at me: Maya Deren’s cine-poems, rhythmic editing, elisions of time/space; Ezra Pound’s imagism, T.S. Eliot’s objective correlatives. The form-expanding classical reception of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) in Helen in Egypt sparks my imagination and experimentation in my film grounded in the Homeric view of Penelope. As I continue my orbit, there are more modernists pulling on me: Alain Resnais with his enigmatic editing structures and entanglements of memory; Michelangelo Antonioni’s emotional color and form present as objective correlatives, which lead me back full circle. One bright solar flare draws me repeatedly to Chris Marker’s La Jetée, in which a powerful image of the past fractures history. As I continue making films informed by and incorporating my receptions of the past, I remain warmed by the modernist sun’s force of attraction.https://ejournals.lib.auth.gr/ExCentric/article/view/9485modernistfilmmakingpoetryobjective correlativeclassical reception. |
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