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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”318″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Project: \u2018An Amorous Discourse: Remapping the World Through Cinephilia\u2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Funded by an RETF Grant from the University of Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n

Applicants: Prof L\u00facia Nagib and Prof John Gibbs<\/strong><\/p>\n

This project builds upon the applicants\u2019 previous experience of research through audiovisual practice, in particular Nagib\u2019s award-winning documentary Passages <\/em>(focusing on Brazilian cinema) and Gibbs\u2019s acclaimed video essays (an audiovisual form of film analysis). Its ultimate aim is innovation in film research and practice through the production of a feature-length documentary \u2018film on films\u2019 and accompanying AHRC-funded research on this hitherto untheorised genre. Entitled Films to Die For<\/em>, <\/em>the documentary will offer a creative and exciting way of bridging academia and wider society. The AHRC project in turn will explore the relationship between the video essay, the essay film, the compilation film and other found-footage filmmaking, whilst creating strategic partnerships to maximise the academic and social impact of our practice as research.<\/p>\n

The project An Amorous Discourse <\/em>aims to retell the history of cinema through a worldwide web of cinephilia that brings filmmakers together through their love for each other\u2019s films. The project\u2019s main output, Films to Die For, <\/em>draws on Wim Wenders\u2019s The State of Things <\/em>(1982), an iconic cinephilic film launched at a significant historical juncture that marks, on the one hand, the end of the European new waves and, on the other, Hollywood\u2019s move into a self-styled postmodern era, dominated by citations and self-reflexive remakes. As such, it allows for exploration of a web of intersecting films involving Brazilian, American, German, Portuguese and Chilean filmmakers. The film will travel back and forth in history and geography, from 1970s New Hollywood through to the sprawling study of the world\u2019s colonial heritage, <\/em>with locations in Portugal, Germany and the UK. In so doing, it will demonstrate the converging desire of filmmakers from the most disparate corners of the globe to combine their efforts into a \u2018transartistic commons\u2019 (Stam), or a realm without borders. As well as original footage, Films to Die For <\/em>will include film excerpts and interviews with renowned filmmakers, such Wim Wenders, Walter Salles, Paulo Branco and Laura Mulvey.<\/p>\n

As a whole, An Amorous Discourse<\/em> will look at film as \u2018a lover\u2019s discourse\u2019 (Barthes) that sees a work of art as a never-ending web of pre-existing artistic fragments of which the artist is nothing but an enamoured filter.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”319″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Read Realist Cinema as World Cinema Book – Chapter 1 – The Death of (a) Cinema<\/a><\/p>\n

This is the source work by L\u00facia Nagib for Films to Die For\u00a0<\/em>source work.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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