FILM 2106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ethnography, Citizen Kane, Ari Folman
24 Mar 2016
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Two diferent animaions to same story (repeated 2x: from mom"s pov, chronicle of moment to moment experience via colour and. 2. abstractness, investment of psychic experience of the mother & brother, Interview with the mom, invested in spaial exploraion of grief, a sense that life goes on, You don"t see the accident, so it"s trying to put the viewer in the mother"s shoes while at the same ime respecing her space. Cinema oten inds itself betraying itself when exploring concepts such as death. Necessity to re-enact death: creaive treatment of sonic indexicality/contextuality is at the forefront of this ilm. Very few ilmmakers work without a script (even documentary ilmmakers) Atempt to re-enact a paricular moment in history (a moment between israel, lebanon, and the palesinians) And perpetratorhood: from the pov of the perpetrators but they are also vicims of the war (protagonist[s] as occupying roles of bystander, perpetrator, and vicim, obscures relaionship triangle (i. e. ilmmaker subject)
