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Durational Cinema: A Short History of Long Films

Durational Cinema: A Short History of Long Films

Walsh, Michael

Hardcover

Series: Experimental Film and Artists' Moving Image

TelevisionFilm & Video ArtFilm Studies

ISBN10: 303076091X
ISBN13: 9783030760915
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Dec 9 2022
Pages: 289
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book argues for a durational cinema that is distinct from slow cinema, and outlines the history of its three main waves: the New York avant-garde of the 1960s, the European art cinema in the years after 1968, and the international cinema of gallery spaces as well as film festivals since the 1990s. Figures studied include Andy Warhol, Ken Jacobs, Chantal Akerman, Marguerite Duras, Claude Lanzmann, James Benning, Kevin Jerome Everson, Lav Diaz, and Wang Bing.Durational cinema is predominantly minimal, but has from the beginning also included a more encompassing or encyclopedic kind of filmmaking. Durational cinema is characteristically representational, and converges on certain topics (the Holocaust, deindustrialization, the experience of the working class and other marginalized people), but has no one meaning, signifying differently at different moments and in different hands. Warhol's durational cinema of subtraction is quite different from Jacobs's durational cinema of socialdisgust, while Lav Diaz' durational sublime is quite different from Kevin Jerome Everson's unblinking studies of African-American working people.

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