Tag: experimental film

Toward a Cinema of Noise: Demonlover (2002)

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Diane (Connie Nielsen), a woman with short brown hair, reclines on a couch and looks at the viewfinder of a digital camcorder. Her mouth is slightly open in an inscrutable expression of engrossment. She holds a cigarette between her fingers.

|Natalie Marlin| Noise was roiling in Olivier Assayas’s blood as the 20th century neared a close. At the end of his 1996 film Irma Vep, the director of the film-within-a-film has disavowed his initial attempt at a conventional filmmaking style. The star has left the picture. The narrative is… Continue reading

Paying Attention to Man Ray: Some Reflections on What Experimental Cinema Can Do For Us Right Now

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|Sophie Durbin| As a child, it would’ve been hard to fathom that going to the movies would one day be as esoteric as spending a night at the opera. But some time in the past five years, I realized that spending much of my free time on film had suddenly cast me as an eccentric clinger-on to… Continue reading