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View article: Correction to: Agnès Varda’s Ethics and Strategies
Correction to: Agnès Varda’s Ethics and Strategies Open
View article: Agnès Varda’s Ethics and Strategies
Agnès Varda’s Ethics and Strategies Open
This article and the video essay are about Agnès Varda’s love, forgiveness and standing one’s ground through at times a strategy of omission and absence. The article also aims to suggest that her filmmaking was conceptually rooted in Lacan…
View article: 'Tentacular thinking' in Creative Practice Research as a Radical Intellectual Gesture: A case study of an experimental hybrid film Wash (2022)
'Tentacular thinking' in Creative Practice Research as a Radical Intellectual Gesture: A case study of an experimental hybrid film Wash (2022) Open
As a filmmaker and scholar I have been involved in the project of creating knowledge through making films, even before I did a PhD and became an academic. It has always been unclear to me why there is the curious divide between the so call…
View article: The Artist and the Work. A Response to Ewa Mazierska’s Article Roman Polanski (and Others) on Trial
The Artist and the Work. A Response to Ewa Mazierska’s Article Roman Polanski (and Others) on Trial Open
View article: Kto zmodernizował egipską kulturę?
Kto zmodernizował egipską kulturę? Open
Analiza historyczno-literacka modernizacji egipskiej i konfliktu wokół niej w obszarze kultury Bliskiego Wschodu, w której Egipt odgrywa rolę wiodącą, polemiczna w stosunku do wybranych tez z dziedziny studiów postkolonialnych. Artykuł oma…
View article: Repented and Flora and Dambudzo
Repented and Flora and Dambudzo Open
A practice-research journey across two experimental films, Flora and Dambudzo (2015) and Repented (2019), which share a core compelling question about the influence of colonialism on intimate relationships in Zimbabwe. Flora and Damudzo (2…
View article: Developing a Sense of Place: The Role of the Arts in Regenerating Communities
Developing a Sense of Place: The Role of the Arts in Regenerating Communities Open
The introduction presents the current status of research in place-making, providing a context for the volume. Reviewing how arts organisations and artists work with sensitivity in regions, cities, towns and spaces to engage citizens in a d…
View article: What Does (a Nasty) Woman Want?
What Does (a Nasty) Woman Want? Open
In this video essay I have juxtaposed material from three films about female desire – made by women at different historical moments in time, in different countries. These are: The Piano (1993) by Jane Campion, Fuga (2018) by …
View article: Profitability analysis of the publishing industry in Norway : a study of the sources of profitability variations between Norwegian publishers
Profitability analysis of the publishing industry in Norway : a study of the sources of profitability variations between Norwegian publishers Open
In Norway, sales of physical books are declining, while sales of books in digital formats,\nalthough increasing, account for only a marginal share of the total market (Norwegian\nPublishers Association, 2019; Ibenholt, 2017). With declinin…
View article: <i>Inception</i> – A Surrealist Tale About Lost Love
<i>Inception</i> – A Surrealist Tale About Lost Love Open
This video essay focuses on the similarities between Inception (2010) and the surrealist classic Un Chien Andalou (1929) by Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel.
View article: Sarah Cooper (2013) <i>The Soul of Film Theory</i>, London: Palgrave. 224 pp
Sarah Cooper (2013) <i>The Soul of Film Theory</i>, London: Palgrave. 224 pp Open
�� Sarah Cooper’s book is a meticulously researched history of the term ‘soul’ as used in film theory since its inception. The book traces the term’s curious history, and its insistent recurrence despite occasional complete vanishings. Apa…