Dear colleagues,
Please find below the invitation for the next University of Southampton Centre for International Film Research public event:
Tuesday, 25 October, 16:00 - 17:45 in 65/LTB
Dr. Richard Rushton, Lancaster University:
‘Immersion and Specularity in the Cinema: on Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida (2014)’
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Pawel Pawlikowski’s 2014 film, Ida, has a very distinct visual style. It is filmed in black and white using the Academy ratio; it utilizes a fixed camera for almost all of its shots (and the duration of those shots is typically quite long). Most strikingly, however, is the composition of many of the film’s shots: they feature characters and objects often pushed towards the foot of the screen, as though they are pushed forward in space, while at the same time vast expanses at the middle and top of the screen are often left vacant – a blank wall, a sky, a landscape. In order to try to understand why the film does this, I turn to the writings of art historian Michael Fried, especially his recent formulations of immersion and specularity (formulations he applies to some of the paintings of Caravaggio). Ultimately I claim that Ida’s visual strategies invite viewers to become ‘bodily fused’ with the spaces Ida depicts, with its characters and narrative elements.
Richard Rushton is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Lancaster University. He is the author of The Reality of Film (2011), Cinema After Deleuze (2012), The Politics of Hollywood Cinema (2013) and, with Gary Bettinson, What is Film Theory? (2010)
All welcome!
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