Think about this for a while: ... Try recalling how you have seen writing rendered in films. ... This is my on-going project. In order to survey how writing has been variously portrayed ... betrayed? ... within film. Why? ... So that I might get some glimpse of how writing might become W/RITING in the Coming Composing (E-lectronic) Community. Let's
look at the juXtaposition of samples: Recall the pencil in the sharpener and how it is made to sound as if a maraca (a musical percussive instrument). Each twist is a shake of the beans in the dried gourd. And in time. To the music. Then there are the descendants on the steps. Fashionably, coming down from the source. With their bright colored scarves waving in the wind. Then the pencil, now sharp, being lowered to the sheet of paper, with the shard of light across its surface. And then quickly, what is written ... appears as the dancers, who are rendering choreographed steps after steps. And then again, a glimpse at the audience. Smiling with approval @ what has been written. Chor(a)eoGrammed! St. Vitusally Danced! But my dear friends, this is Sally Potter herself smiling. Now. I smile. Do you? Does he, she, it? We? Them? VV's audiences? Can (yes, we can) we become the chora(us) in our mis/identification with the choreography! Let's dance! Even a St. Vitus Post-Modern Dance, if called for. By way of the renderings in films of W.Riting. |
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AllWays Some More! Let's turn to ... VertoV's "The Man with the Movie Camera." And notice, immediately, the camera dances! Itself. It dances! Making the audience laugh, while it dances and films them! And while on the Stage! How strange. St. Strange. The situation is reversed! I love reversals, don't you? Everything, after all, is immenently reverseable! ... I think that VertoV is by far a better film maker than Eyezenstein was. But I do know that Eisenstein had planned to film Marx's Capital I so that everyone (therefore, classless) could understand that great book! Concrete Images would replace Abstract Words. Synthesis reversing with analysis. Presentational reversing with discursive. General economy reversing with restricted economy. Capital I would become a flick! When the Social-Epistemic Court in the discipline can understand becoming flick, then I will become a card-carrying member! And yet, as the other Marx said, .... VV.here are We? Some Possible Answers:
Collage, Montage!
I decoupage/d and re.cite them here from Ulmer, who cites them from Derrida, who cites them from.... We must move from the restricted conditions of a flat text that wants to float, but can't, to the newer conditions of compossibility that make floating, d/rifting radically (incom)possible. When we start expecting our students to Film their papers, we will be on our wayves to the new CCC by(e) way of DCM! When we start realizing our mov(i)ement from dancing the tango to dancing (the) movie camera, we will be on our way to CCC by(e) way of DCM&Floating! ... (D/Rifting!) The same holds more so for our REEL eye zation for publishing, electornic-publishing. Yes, more so. So let us dance our wayves over t.here: ...
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VertoV - "A Man with a Movie Camera"
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