Altered Body Maps and the Cinematic Sensorium
Cinematic Folds: The Furling and Unfurling of Images, 2008, pp. 232 - 256
Toronto: Pleasure Dome, 2008
From the recent Pleasure Dome publication (Cinematic Folds: The Furling and Unfurling of Images) Anna Powell provides an interesting look into the desire arousing structures of experimental film making. In her essay: Altered Body Maps and the Cinematic Sensorium, Powell approaches film under a Delusian/Gautarrian lens where she discusses a troupe of experimental filmakers and their libidinal investments. Studing the evolution of coded bodies of the biological and psychological, as well as, the structural agenic formations between images and their viewers; their faults and their faness.
** This is an abridged version from Anna Powell, Deleuze, Altered States and Film, (Edinburgh: U of Edinburgh Press, 2007), 100-10, 116-23. Copyright permission courtesy of the author and publisher.
ITEM 2008.116 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Dog Star Man, 1961 - 1964 – Stan Brakhage
The Prelude, 1996 – Stan Brakhage
Reflections on Black, 1955 – Stan Brakhage
Projective Verse, 1950 – Charles Olson
Ray Gun Virus, 1966 – Paul Sharits
The Flickr, 1965 – Beverly Conrad
Piece Mandala: End War, 1966 – Paul Shartis
Jacob's Ladder, 1993 – Adrian Lyne
Fuses, 1967 – Carolee Schneemann
Loving, 1957 – Stan Brakhage
Cat's Cradle, 1959 – Stan Brakhage