Critical Writing Index

The Performance of Trauma in Moving Image Art, Dirk de Bruyn (2014) Filming the Body in Crisis: Trauma, Healing and Hopefulness, Davina Quinlivan

by Maria Walsh

Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ), 2017, v. 6, no. 1&2, pp. 274-281

A review of two books centering around trauma and film. Article author Walsh discusses Dirk the Bruyn's The Performance of Trauma in Moving Image Art and Davina Quinlivan's Filming the Body in Crisis: Trauma, Healing and Hopefulness. Whereas de Bruyn's work focusses on avant-garde materialist film, Quinlivan's centres mainly around mainstream and independent narrative film.

ITEM 2017.028 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Landscape Suicide – James Benning

Alone: Life Wastes Andy Hardy – Martin Arnold

Outer Space – Martin Arnold

Dreamwork – Martin Arnold

Blue – Derek Jarman

Los Abrazos Rotos – Pedro Almodovar

The Tree of Life – Terence Malick

Hunger – Steve McQueen

Waltz with Bashir – Ari Folman

Felicia's Journey – Atom Egoyan

Spider – David Cronenberg

A Dangerous Method – David Cronenberg