Saturday, August 21, 2010

editing + postmodernism

Editing

The shot is defined by editing but editing also works to join shots together. There are many ways of effecting that transition, some more evident than others. In the analytical tradition, editing serves to establish space and lead the viewer to the most salient aspects of a scene. In the classical continuity style, editing techniques avoid drawing attention to themselves. In a constructivist tradition such as Soviet Montage cinema, there is no such false modesty. Vertov's Man with the Movie Camera (Chelovek s kinoapparatom, USSR, 1929) celebrates the power of the cinema to create a new reality out of disparate fragments.

Buster Keaton, The Neighbors

Dziga Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera


Politics of Reproduction,

Postmodernism + Indie Media

Perry Bard, Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake

John Oswald Plunderphonics


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