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The Alchemical Screen: Enchantment and the Cinema
Read more: The Alchemical Screen: Enchantment and the CinemaDid human desire for magic escape the scorn of rational thought via the vehicle of 20th century cinema? Through fascination with haunted universes, I explore narrative immersion, celluloid wizardry, the abandonment of the palpable for the ecstasy of the enchanted. Symposium paper. Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Archetypal Enchantment And The Twin Of David Lynch
Read more: Archetypal Enchantment And The Twin Of David LynchSomething in the nature of a recording defies rational explanation. A replica of life, its twin and its double, also its deathly echo, preserving life by embalming it for eternity, or at least until the shelf life of the medium itself expires. Images have the numinosity to affect us deeply – a capacity to heal…
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Joker
Read more: JokerJoaquin Phoenix burns like an archangel on heroin, a contorted otherworldly presence that under a different constellation of stars would have ended up a saint, but turns to the demonic, discovering within it that creative spark he searched for all his life spent as a non-entity. Dangerous cinema, telling the truth, and lighting a match.…
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Film, the Alchemical Medium
Read more: Film, the Alchemical MediumOn how we are enchanted by film, juxtaposing early film theory, post-Jungian analysis, anthropology of ritual, and the moving image as transformative tool in art therapy, coining the term archetypal enchantment. It serves as basis to my subsequent theoretical approach to cinema.
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