Last month, I talked with Kristina Marie Darling over email about her new book Compendium (Cow Heavy Books, 2011)—topics ranged from the Romantic fragment to mourning rituals to collaboration to erasure. Darling is also the author of the poetry collection Night Songs (Gold Wake Press, 2010). She has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, the Ragdale [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Joseph Cornell’
Contemporary Verse Novels and Sentences and Fragments: Charles Simic’s DIME STORE ALCHEMY
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brian Clements, Charles Simic, Contemporary Verse Novels, Dime Store Alchemy, Joseph Cornell, Sentences and Fragments on April 5, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I’m not really sure why I keep writing about “Contemporary Verse Novels,” because I’m not that interested in labeling things. But it’s as good a category as any, and I like the idea that books that already exist as “poems” might also benefit from being associated with “novels.” So, on to the latest that fits [...]
Why Do You Need So Many Cinemas?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AKJAK, animutation, Billy Joel, Brian Eno, Can Dialectics Break Bricks?, cinema, David Bordwell, David Lynch, détournement, Film Art, Flash animation, Frank Film, Frank Mouris, George Lucas, James Earl Jones, Joseph Cornell, Judson Laipply, Kanye West, Kristin Thompson, Len Lye, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Lumière Brothers, Mike Stoklasa, Neil Cicierega, Onion AV Club, René Viénet, Roger Ebert, scott mccloud, Situationist International, Stan Brakhage, Star Wars, Terry Gilliam, Thomas Edison, Understanding Comics, Vader Sessions, Weezer, YouTube on January 30, 2011 | 9 Comments »
In my last post on this topic, I argued that cinema can be redefined as “the cinematic arts,” which would include not only movies and short films, but also music videos, commercials, TV programs, experimental film and video, installation art, video games, Flash animations, animated gifs, and even “nonelectrical” forms of moving images, such as [...]
Brevity, part 7: Slow Motion
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrew & Lana Wachowski, Andy Warhol, Arthur Penn, Blake Edwards, Brian De Palma, Bullet-Time, David Lynch, Douglas Gordon, Dziga Vertov, Eadweard Muybridge, Erik Satie, Godfrey Reggio, Interpol, Jean Cocteau, Jean Luc Godard, Jean Vigo, John Woo, Joseph Cornell, Kar Wai Wong, Kenneth Anger, Martin Scorsese, Maya Deren, overcranking, Pixies, René Clair, Rouben Mamoulian, Sam Peckinpah, slow motion, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Macmillan, Time-Slice, undercranking, Velouria, Wes Anderson, Zack Snyder, zoopraxiscope on March 9, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Note: This post is partly a reply to a question someone asked me, back-channel, about slow motion, but also partly due to my general interest in how time works in narrative, and in brevity and stasis (and “the ongoing”). Slow motion is created by presenting film footage at a slower rate than it was shot [...]
Experimental Fiction as Genre and as Principle
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andy Warhol, Bruce Conner, Bubsy Berkeley, Carolee Schneemann, Christopher Higgs, Edwin S. Porter, Ernie Gehr, experimental fiction, experimental film, Harry Smith, Hollis Frampton, Howard Hawks, Jack Smith, James Sibley Watson, Jonas Mekas, Joseph Cornell, Kenneth Anger, La Gioconda, Lescaux, Lois Weber, Mary Ellen Bute, Maya Deren, Melville Webber, Michael Snow, Nathaniel Dorsky, P. Adams Sitney, Paul Sharits, Robert Flaherty, Roundhay Garden Scene, Shirley Clarke, Stan Brakhage, The Night of the Hunter, The Spectator, Theodor Adorno, Viktor Shklovsky, Yoko Ono on February 3, 2010 | 56 Comments »
Christopher Higgs at HTMLGIANT recently posted this question: “If you were teaching a class on American experimental fiction, what texts would you choose, and why?” He went on to list a set of possible books for an “Introduction to American Experimental Fiction” course: Ishmael Reed – Mumbo Jumbo William S. Burroughs – The Soft Machine [...]