Cinematographic test

Definition (S)

From its literary heritage, the test with the Cinéma is defined as being an introspective step, i.e. an experiment of which the goal is to take the measurement of its own thought. Didier Coureau written in the collective work entitled the test and the cinema (coll Gold of Atalant, ED. Field-small valley under the direction of Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues and Murielle Gagnebien) that the test is a form which thinks. It defines the test in the cinema as being a “poetic thought ” or a “ filmic noosphère ”. Always in this same work, the gasoline even of a test would be, according to Jose Moure, of " to have the disordered mass of the knowledge, to take a piece beside an other and to try to make them go together, to invent allusions to conceivable, to find a share of truth in the illusion or the dream ".

In France, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard, is, with the cinema, often defined like essay writers. The concepts of engagement (political, social, human, existential, vital), of experiment (lived and formal) are found there as in literature. But it will also be necessary to wonder about the poetic sphere, the movement (the thought, the voyage), or the fragment for better being capable to seize the gasoline of it. A whole program!

Among the cinematographic tests, one can quote:

the statues die also of Chris Marker and Alain Resnais (1953).
Without sun of Chris Marker (1982).
Level 5 of Chris Marker (1996).
History (S) of the cinema of Jean-Luc Godard (1988-1998).
Our music of Jean-Luc Godard (2004).
Kashima Paradise of Blessed Deswarte, Yann Masson (1973).
selected Small pieces of Radovan Tadic (2004).

Others scenario writers can be added to the list of the scenario writers essay writers:

Chantal Akerman
Yaël Andre
Edmond Bernhard
Benjamin Christensen
Pierre Creton
Dominique Dubosc
Harun Farocki
Georges Franju
Esteban Kang
Thierry Knauf
Boris Lehman
Gaël Lépingle
Manoel de Oliveira
Artavazd Pelechian
David Perlov
Jean-Daniel Pollet
Radovan Tadic
Lydie Wisshaupt-Claudel
Federico Fellini

The essay writer is not to in no case controlled by established rules. Jean-François Lyotard writes that “the essay writer and the artist work without rule in order to lay down the rules of what will have been” . Therefore one with the practice to say that the test is a postmodern work, a work with the future (post) former (modo). The scenario writer essay writer is thus essentially a postmodern scenario writer.

Examples of devices

The principle of uncertainty

On the basis of facts, by images or signs, the realizer of tests is inspired sometimes by the structuralist approach of Roland Barthes by confronting or bringing closer several phenomena which are the subject generally of a rigorous distance. It is the case of Radovan Tadic when the latter carries out selected Small pieces . Its approach resembles more that of a structuralist philosopher or a quantum physicist that to that of a journalist who informs evidence with the support.

Contrary to a historian or a journalist, the essay writer will be authorized to consider, for example, two correlated states of our modern history, and will try to show, that even if the History is not governed by a traditional determinism, and that if there exists a quasi infinite sum of possible ways which connect these two events, there exists well one (or of) way (S) it (S) more probable (S). It will identify this (or these) way (S), and will explain which are the processes which make it possible to affirm it: it is the principle of uncertainty.

The poetic assembly

Here, it is the fragment and the repetition of the movements which prevail. This type of assembly is called: the poetic assembly or assembly with counterpoint . It is not a question that of a simple process. According to Pelechian, itself: “the expression of the direction then acquires a range much stronger and major than by direct joining. The expressivity becomes more intense then and the informative capacity of film takes colossal proportions” .

In order to better approach this device, it is advised to see or re-examine Konets and the seasons of Artavazd Pelechian. In Tuesday of the FEMIS Artazvad Pelechian explains, figures with the support, how it creates this device. The book is in free access to BiFi (dimension: 50.02 IDIOT). It is impossible to buy it. With reading absolutely!

Reminiscence

Analogy

Sites dedicated to scenario writers essay writers

Internet site entirely devoted to Artavazd Pelechian, created and published by the university review Framing and written by Pierre Arbus, qualified schoolteacher with the ESAV Toulouse: http://www.artavazd-pelechian.net

Page Internet devoted to Jean-Luc Godard, created and published by Black screen : http://www.ecrannoir.fr/real/france/godard

a site in English and French dedicated to Chris Marker realized by Silverthread: http://www.silcom.com/%7Edlp/Passagen/cm.home2.html

a site in English and French dedicated to Dominique Dubosc: http://www.dominiquedubosc.org

Between experimental cinema and test: Jonas Mekas : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/cote.court/2002/mekas1.htm

Of the texts, the drawings, or how to better approach the work of Jean-Daniel Pollet: http://www.derives.tv/spip.php?article63

Harun Farocki by the center of the contemporary image of Geneva:

Sites devoted to cinematographic tests

Without Sun , a film of Chris Marker: http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/cinemav/marker

With soon I hope for , another film of Chris Marker: http://www.cine-resistances.fr/98/film/abientotjespere.htm

Books devoted to the test with the cinema

the test and the cinema (coll Gold of Atalant, ED. Field-small valley under the direction of Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues and Murielle Gagnebien) . With:

Standard test of the test to the cinema by Jose Moure.
the cinematographic test and its experimental transformations by Guy Fihman.
To read between the images by Christa Blümlinger.
the scenario of fiction like philosophical test by Claire Mercier.
Between Utopia and heresy. Some remarks in connection with the concept of test by Alain Ménil.
Of inventive falsification or the art of the cinematographic test by Murielle Gagnebin.
Art and test by Denis Levy; the test, forms interval by Diane Arnaud.
the test in extreme cases of the ground and water by Cyril Neyrat.
Arabesques on the topic of Pirosmani de Paradjanov. Self-portrait of a scenario writer as a painter? by Sylvie Rollet.
“rejected pier”. To and from and “screen tests” by Fabienne Costa.
a form which thinks by Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues.
Scratch pad of a clown. The negative test according to Fellini by Christophe Deshoulières.
Poetic filmic of Noosphère (Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, 1982-2001) by Didier Coureau.
right to the test by Jean Durançon.
a test transformed by Jean-Louis Leutrat.

Jean-Luc Godard by Jean-Luc Godard - Volume 1 - 1950 to 1984 (ED. Books of the cinema) writes by JLG.

Jean-Luc Godard by Jean-Luc Godard - Volume 2 - 1984 to 1998 (ED. Books of the cinema) writes by JLG.

History (S) of the cinema - Volume 1 (ED. Gallimard-Gaumont) writes by JLG.

History (S) of the cinema - Volume 2 (ED. Gallimard-Gaumont) writes by JLG.

History (S) of the cinema - Volume 3 (ED. Gallimard-Gaumont) writes by JLG.

History (S) of the cinema - Volume 4 (ED. Gallimard-Gaumont) writes by JLG.

Chris Marker (coll small Books, ED. Books of the cinema) writes by Bamchade Pourvali.

Chris Marker, multi-media writer or Voyage through the media (ED. Harmattan) writes by Guy Gauthier.

between-images 2 (coll Traffic, ED. P.O.L) writes by Raymond Bellour.

Ivens, Marker, Godard, Jarman: Erinnerung im Essayfilm (coll Wilhelm Fink Verlag) written by Christina Scherer.

I did not have nowhere where to go (coll Trafic, ED. P.O.L) written by Jonas Mekas.

Tuesday of the FEMIS (coll: Confrontations, ED. FEMIS) confrontations with Raymond Depardon, Daniel Humair, Emir Kusturica, Artazvad Pelechian, Claude Regy, Alain Rocca, Martin Scorsese.

DVD

the Pier of Chris Marker (Video ARTE).

Without sun of Chris Marker (Video ARTE).

the Tomb of Alexandre of Chris Marker (Video ARTE).

Perched Cats of Chris Marker (Video ARTE).

Various bonds

Peter Thompson - THE CINEMATIC ESSAY

http://www.pol-editeur.fr/revues

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