Section outline

  • Pandian, Anand. 2011. “Reel Time: Ethnography and the Historical Ontology of the Cinematic Image.” Screen 52.2: 193–214.

    Questions:

    • How does the author relate cinema, time and creativity?
    • What is meant by “to think the relation between historical and ontological”?
    • What account of creativity does the author offer instead of the romantic myth of the genius?
    • Do you see any relation with yesterday's readings?

    Viewing:

    Towira, Pimpaka. แม่, Thailand, 2012, 15 min.

    Tsai, Ming-Liang. 无无眠. Taiwan – Hong Kong, 2015, 34 min.

    Wang, Shao-Gang. 惡水淨土. Taiwan, 2017, 7 min.

    Weerasethakul, Apichatpong. Luminous People. Thailand – Portugal, 2007, 15 min.

    Doan na Champassak, Tiane & Jean Dubrel, Natpwe, le festin des esprits. France, 2012, 31 min.

    Itō, Takashi. GRIM. Japan, 1985, 7 min.