Art, documentary and the essay film

Dossier: Philosophy of the Essay Film

Esther Leslie ~ RP 192 (July/Aug 2015) ~ Article

Dossier PHILOSOPHY OF tHE ESSAY FILM Art, documentary and the essay film Esther LeslieFilm as document The moment when Siegfried Kracauer knew that he wanted to write of film as what he terms the ‘Discover of the Marvels of Everyday Life’ is relayed in his introduction to the Theory of Film from 1960.1 Kracauer recalls watching a […]

Flux and flurry: Stillness and hypermovement in animated worlds

Esther Leslie ~ RP 152 (Nov/Dec 2008) ~ Article

Flux and flurry Stillness and hypermovement in animated worlds Esther leslie Animation, as any Wikipedia reader knows, is ‘the optical illusion of movement’, whether achieved through photographing drawings, moving clay models and recording the tweaks frame by frame, drawing directly on film or devising models digitally. But the definition is a weak one, or only […]

People exposed, people as extras

Dossier: Undoing the aesthetic image

Georges Didi-Huberman ~ RP 156 (Jul/Aug 2009), pp. 16–22 ~ Article

People exposed, people as extras Georges Didi-Huberman The title of the first film shown in history is La Sortie des usines Lumière – in English, ‘Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory’. On 22 March 1895, in the rue de Rennes in Paris, in front of about two hundred spectators, Auguste and Louis Lumière showed for the […]