From the Grain to the Pixel, Aesthetic and Political Choices
Du Grain au Pixel, choix esthétiques et politiques
Résumé
By considering the evolution of some technical aspects of film culture and industry, the idea was on the one hand to concentrate on the role and place of mechanical aspects in our discipline, and on the other hand to demonstrate how technical choices could help us to resolve the challenging question of the representation of time in a documentary narrative manner. I will examine how fieldwork, feedback and analysis of a few specific rituals organized in the Dogon country forced me to reconsider the treatment of the representation of time and space in my ethnographic documentaries. After realising how deeply these contradictions forced me to reconsider my methodology and my technical choices, I chose to concentrate on digital programming as a possible language to address this challenging topic and to offer possibilities to propose new forms of representations.
In the event, by considering the role and place of digital programming as a language to create new forms of representation, I realized how techniques had been isolated from the social and cultural context they emerged from.
By comparing the notion of grain that came from the analogue film industry to the one of pixels which came out of the digital era, the purpose was to underline the aesthetic and political choices embedded in this technical criteria and how the spectators, whatever their age, could create or recreate their time perception according to the resonance of the grain or the pixel, from the viewpoint of a personal and social imaginary construction.
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