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Lost in Translation?
How Post-cinema can be the Bridge Between the Analogue and the Digital Violette Simard Being in the midst of the post-cinematic era, where everything feels artificial and digital, it can be tempting to resort back to melancholic nostalgia and long for a romanticized version of the past when everything was authentic and analogue. But it…
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Lights, camera, friction: The Film Vs. Digital Debate
A decade after digital filmmaking made it to mainstream cinema, I arrived on scene. A cinema neophyte and a fresh student of screen studies, I wondered how our relationship with technology and storytelling had evolved over the years. I found compelling arguments for both mediums but neither could outshine the argument for compelling narratives. In…
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A Case Study of Post-Film Factors in Anno Hideaki’s “Shin Godzilla”.
The concepts of post-cinema and post-continuity have become particularly well-known since Steven Shaviro described them. In particular, in the Post-Continuity chapter of POST CINEMA Theorising 21st-Century Film(2016) by Shane Denson and Julia Leyda, Matthias Stork’s Chaos Cinema and David Bordwell’s critique of cinematography and editing in contemporary digital cinema, Steven Shaviro states that we need…
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Digital Transformation; New Media and Post Cinema
The cinema and television industry went through many transitions during the analogue to digital transformation starting at the end of the 20th century, especially in production, exhibition, and consumption. In Manovich’s work ‘The Language of New Media’ he coins the term “New Media” he discusses it commonly referred to as the internet, DVDs, computer games,…
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MEDIUM TRANSFORMATION FROM ANALOGUE TO DIGITAL MEDIA and the ‘post cinematic affect’.
Medium is a literary persuasion. It is the means by which ideas are conveyed. Examples of mediums include letters, words and images. In the past, people used letters to communicate ideas. Digital media, on the other hand, has transformed the way ideas are conveyed. It has also transformed how people perceive and interpret information. The…
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Cinematic Affect in Pre and Post continuity
In this clip, we see a new continuity in film editing which causes a new cinematic effect. This movie is dramatic without action but the purpose of this character speaking to the viewer whilst the drama is ongoing in the background creates a comedic effect. The post-continuity generates a new form of sensibility. We can…
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Post-Cinematic Imagery and Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
The digitization of Post-Cinema and techniques implemented to achieve the hallucinatory, dreamy feeling that accompanies it are quite expansive, with theories such as post-continuity demolishing the linear flow of time in film. Upon considering post-cinematic imagery, post-continuity, and the implementation of CGI, Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is a film that immediately comes to mind.…
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Chaos cinema
In Matthias Stork’s video essay on chaos cinema, he highlights the difference in how actions films were once created versus now. Stork argues that we are now seeing a perversion from the classic way of filmmaking to what we now call ‘chaos cinema’ due to the new techniques and editing styles in films, particularly action.…
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