I recently taught a course on film-analysis for first year film
school students. I found the red line through my teaching to be
directors who choose not to control certain aspects of their films,
going through Casavettes who more or less ignores framings, de Sica
who let life and chaos in through real locations, way back to Dziga
Vertov who uses uncontrollable reality as raw material for highly
structured work. I was able to expand on the subject enough for the
audience, but with little theoretical background. My background is
philosophy on the one hand, and filmmaking on the other, but I have
little knowledge of film theory or the history of film theory. Could
someone point out key texts on the idea of cinema as a channel for
the unforeseen life/chaos/excess/dirt, and perhaps an expansion on
the different approaches to this basic element of film?
Haukur Már Helgason,
Reykjavík.
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