Month: April 2015
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The snake charmer
Film theory via camera operators, this is amazing stuff from Anthony Bourdain’s man behind the lens. Transfixed on this future-past, the operator’s mind is split between now and later. The Present is displaced by near-present. The operator filmed the event, but is left with a peculiar feeling of not fully being there. Something has been lost. […]
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Writing
I haven’t written for a very long time. That seems a strange thing to say, given that I bill myself as a ‘writer, producer, and researcher’. But it’s true. In terms of actually setting mind to page without the baggage of scholarly rigour, it’s been an age. Given I now work for an institution that […]
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Re-framing the frame
‘Framing is a position of thinking.’ – Daniel Frampton, Filmosophy, p. 125. As previously alluded to, I’m in the very strange process of having to think through my own comprehension of the cinematic medium. In a way, I’m taking baby steps towards my own theory of film. I’ll be taking these initial explorations to a couple […]
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7 February 2010
Thoughts from the elder Moleskine: ‘When I was a child, I thought as a child acted as a child, spoke as a child… but when I became a man, I turned my back on childish things.’ [1 Corinthians 13:11] The church expects that every person should grow up. Why? There is no harm, no danger, […]
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A Thursday
She’s laughing at an in-joke with herself about everyone on board; She’s engrossed in her book; He has his headphones in, openly staring at each commuter in turn; All the other men are suited, reading their papers or fumbling with technology that was crafted much later than their fingers stopped working; There is an amicably […]
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