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Emotional World Cinema:                      (Close-up of Rekha Rekha Sex ...:                      (Close-up of Rekha Rekha Sex Symbol and chameleontic personality in Bollywood Cinema) The Cine-Files journal (htt...

A conference

I would like to signal the following conference on Film and Philosophy which will be held in Lisbon on the 7-10 May 2014. The conference is entitled:

Thinking reality and time through film

https://sites.google.com/site/philosophyandfilmlisbon2014/home

 

EMOTIONAL EDGES

In the constant research of material on Emotions (and visual-practice based material on the same topic), I came across this exciting video entitled Fire and Water. 

I have personally found extremely interesting the way emotions are built into the fury of nature. The bodily experienced raised by the video in the audience is a set of emotions, being in a perpetual rhythm of denial and acknowledgement, of contentment and perturbedness but also restlessness and restfulness. Emotions (at large) are here experienced in their full form, as quite and noisy natural events. 

The partition of the screen, the dichotomy of the images set immediately a duality, a confrontation with ambivalent way of feeling. The video, introspectively, opens interesting discussions on the language of cinema and its 'natural' forces as emotional stirrer.   

(Fire and Water in AUDIOVISUALCY - Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies/This video is realised by Kogonada and it can be found in Audiovisualcy https://vimeo.com/groups/audiovisualcy an online forum for videographic film studies).

                                                (Operation Filmmaker, Dir. by Nina Davenport, 2007)

The current issue of the journal Film International presents an interesting medley of academic article and interviews. (http://filmint.nu/?page_id=230) 

Regarding EMOTIONS I have tracked down this throughout interesting paper written by Elizabeth Marquis and entitled:

The Rhetorical Force of Conflicting Emotions in Operation Filmmaker: a cognitive approach to documentary performance and emotion.

This paper aims to present a critical reading of the 2007 documentary film "Operation Filmmaker", directed and written by Nina Davenport. This article highlights on the presence of the American actor Liev Schreiber, the work of a young Iraqi filmmaker and the emotional and thematic backdrop of the films are thoroughly discussed.

                                                   
                                                   (Operation Filmmaker Clip)

                     (Close-up of Rekha Rekha Sex Symbol and chameleontic personality in Bollywood Cinema)


The Cine-Files journal (http://www.thecine-files.com/) has just released the new special issue on 'mise-en-scene'.

Specific to the discussion of emotions I would like to signal the following article:

THE FACE 

http://www.thecine-files.com/current-issue-2/articles/the-face/

About the author:
Anna Swenson is a Film and Television MFA graduate from The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).  Her track focused on film editing, and she was honored with SCAD’s award for best editing of a graduate film in 2013.  She has a specific interest in exploring how emotion is instilled into motion pictures; as an editor, she feels one of her primary jobs is to appropriately convey emotion, and to analytically explore new techniques.

I would like to signal this site:

http://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/ 

Additional material to check out on World cinema/emotions in relation to close-up:

The Spielberg Face

ANGER:

 
                           (Image from Delhi Belly [2011], Indian Black Comedy, film directed by Abhinay Deo)


The first emotion I wish to start collecting information about is ANGER.
How does Anger comes across in films? How does anger/frustration affect, for instance aesthetic, style and mise-en scene of a film? 

                                       (Frames from Rang de Basanti, dir. by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, 2006)

A year later...Starting again...from the beginning:

My starting point this time is to clarify why this blog.

This blog is mostly an homage to the primary reactions we experience when we sit in a cinema theater being astonished, disgusted, intrigued, horrified etc. with the images projected on the silver screen. It is an homage to our tears and laughter and to all the outer and inner emotions that often are mixed together with the one of others sharing the magnificence of a cinematic screen, to form an emotional orchestra of reactions.

This blog hopes to develop and host in time insights on how are emotions associated to cinematic viewing. I hope to collect (with the help of a generous academic, and non academic community), scholarly articles, footage, reports, pictures on cinematic/filmic reactions.

The question here, is how can we begin talking about emotions in cinema and films? And how do they mean in our cinematic experience?