FINAL PAPER PROPOSAL
due on Blog (as comment to this post) by Thursday, 5pm
1 paragraph, approx 100 words.
Title, artist/director, and date of the object you will write about.
Why you want to write about this, how you will relate it to the course.
How you’ll focus and narrow the scope.
Initial ideas about sources.
Initial concerns or questions.
Your final paper will be 8-10 pages. You will need to use one of the theorists from the second half of our course (Deleuze, Virilio, Sobchack). You will also need to find at least TWO other sources. At least one must directly relate to your chosen object, and at least one must provide historical or theoretical context. The sources should be academic, the kinds of things we might have used in class if we had studied that object; so for instance you could use a review published in Film Quarterly but not a review published in USA Today.
Sites for Finding Media Art, Digital Art:
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/search/keyword:cinema
http://www.rhizome.org/
http://artport.whitney.org/
some examples:
http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/battleofalgiers/BattleofAlgiers.shtml
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/art_and_cinematography/douglas/
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/24-hour-psycho/
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/illuminated-average/
at BAM in Measure of Time: Ken Goldberg piece, Shirley Shor piece
Partial List of Potential Films:
Rashoman
Run Lola Run
Sliding Doors
Bourne Identity
Mission Impossible 3
The Day After Tomorrow
Pulp Fiction
Sex Lies and Videotape
Crash
Memento
EXistenZ
I-Robot
AI
Premonition
12 Monkeys (is based on La Jetee)
TVSeries: Daybreak, 24
Irreversible
Chunking Express
2046
(films from) The Decalogue
La Femme Nikita
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Places to find Sources:
Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/
JStor: www.jstor.org/
Berkeley library: http://sunsite5.berkeley.edu:8000/
PFA Library: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfalibrary/
Berkeley Media Resources: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/
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11 comments:
Twelve Monkeys (1995), Terry Gilliam and Chris Marker (La Jetee)
As one of the first serious science fiction movies I saw, Twelve Monkeys has long been a favorite of mine. Based loosely on La Jetee, it explores the nature of time and its unchangeability. Aside from time travel being the subject of the film, Twelve Monkeys also has the applicable theme of technology’s role in humanity’s demise—both in general and the main character’s. Specifically I’m interested in man’s powerlessness in the face of time as shown through the main character. The UCB library has several academic sources discussing the movie. Some literature about La Jetee could also be pertinent. Any of the readings from the second half the course are relevant to the movie.
I plan to do my final paper on the movie Fight Club, by director David Fincher in 1999. After seeing the movie as well as reading the book, I think the images that the story conveys illustrate manipulated time and relate to Deleuze's idea of duration and imagery. The distortion of the film also relates to Virilio's concept of optics and the double in light of the main character's multiple personality. One of my concerns is how detailed the movie is and how to include the major points in my paper.
Television Delivers People (1973) Richard Serra, (Carlota Fay Schoolman)
After viewing Boomerang I looked at other videos made by Serra and I like this one very much because of its ironic truth. I chose this video as my topic because I think it explores television as a powerful, almost brain-washing medium for communication ironically through the usage of just that—a television, a video. I’m going to focus on how ultimately digital media can eliminate duration by providing everything in the present; also, how TV and electronics cause us to lose real perception of real consequences of harsh events by making everything entertaining and profit-oriented. I’m mostly going to focus on some specific sentences from the video, and its format to show the negative side of digital media. I think the readings we looked at in the second part of the semester will be relevant to this video. Some of my concerns are finding outside academic sources, which help relate my arguments to this video.
Endless Summer (1964), Bruce Brown
I plan to write about Bruce Brown’s Endless Summer which was one of the first surf documentaries of the 1960s as surf culture and the California lifestyle became popularized images. The documentary follows two surfers as they travel around the world (to the Southern Hemisphere in particular) in search of the “perfect wave,” while winter weather limits the California surf. Throughout the film the two main subjects compare their present locale and condition to “back home” in terms of time and space.
-Potential Source- Massey- notions of space and place (how place can be more effectively defined by temporal context than geographical).
I plan on writing my final paper on Run Lola Run directed by Tom Tykwer in 1998. I plan on addresing aspects of irreversible time and time travel that takes place in Lola's multiple attempts to save her boyfriend. I would like to address the editing techniques used in this film and how they apply to teh characters travel in time. The Sobchack article is a potential source as well as an array of articles I found in the UCB library on time travel. I was also thinking of using Deleuze if possible as well.
Joey Ponticello
The evolving communication technology and innovative media has paved the way for new ways of gaming and social interaction that transcends time and space. However, the line between our physical existence and digital reality starts to blur as gamers become increasingly involved with their digital counterpart. “Second Life”, developed by Linden Labs in 2003, is a massive multiplayer online game in which players experience a virtual 3-d world in where players can explore the digital continent and discover many new forms of entertainment, experiences, and interact with other online participants. I want to examine existence of self in the digital world and relate it to Sobchack’s notion of the electronic self, electronic technology, and the time and duration, which governs the digital world and the physical world. I will also look at journals that address the digital self, and internet technology in relation to online gaming. My concern is whether or not I can focus on a specific aspect and write a concise paper that meets the required length.
I am doing my paper on Pokemon: The First Movie, directed by Michael Haigney and Kunihiko Yuyama in 1999. The shift in Pokemon technology during the movie can be related to Sobchack's different technological ages. There is also an idea of contracted space associated with the new technologies and the elimination of the journey Pokemon need to take, which can described by Virilio's arguments. For outside sources I can find articles in journals that discuss the movie. My only concern right is that I will not be able to find enough outside sources.
I am going to write about Pulp Fiction (1994) by Quentin Tarantino. I have always enjoyed Tarantino movies, especially Pulp Fiction. This movie follows a non-linear time structure and I hope to talk about how it breaks down clichés by being both a time image and action image. This paper will focus on the scenes containing both Vincent and Jules in their quest to retrieve the suitcase and eat breakfast. I will definitely be using Deleuze as my source from class. My main concern has to do with finding academic sources outside of those discussed in class that relate to both the movie and the theme of the course.
I plan on writing my final paper on the 1998 German film, Run Lola Run, written and directed by Tom Tykwer. Lola, the protagonist, is placed in a game-like senario where she has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 marks (German money) or gangsters will kill her boyfriend many.
The director uses a number of techniques including the zoom, jump cut, split screens, hand-held video camera, animation, a montage of still photographs, and slow motion, which seem to cover almost all of the techniques that we have covered in this class’s films the we have viewed and readings. I think that Deleuze’s action, time and moving image arguments will be the basis of my argument because they cover both the filming techniques and the theory begind the film itself. I also think that Bergson would also add some depth. Clearly not as a main source, but just some quick quotations the further confirm Delueze. Jamie Skye Bianco’s Techno-Cinema can add some interesting ideas about the film in addition to Gabriel M. Paletz, The Lives of Lola Montes: A Report from the Max Ophuls Beyond Borders Conference, because he touches on the moving image.
Chloe Kloezeman
I plan to write about Paycheck (2003) by John Woo. This movie is adapted from Philip K Dick's short story. Many science fiction movies, including Blade Runner and Minority Report, were based on Dick's short stories. Even though Paycheck is plagued with lame dialog by Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman, I find the conceptualization of a time machine a fascinating one. I hope to apply Virilio's idea of dromospheric pollution to the analysis of Jenning's journey to a future he has seen before.
For my final paper, I will write about Twelve Monkeys directed by Terry Gilliam in 1996 and based off of La Jetee by Chris Marker. Much like La Jetee, 12 Monkeys portrays man's unfortunate faith in technology. The scientists all believe that they can change the present with their newfound time traveling technology. This spirit of mistrust in technology can be found in Sobchack's writing, who also questions man's dependency on technology. For further sources, I will also look into writings about La Jetee. Deleuze will also be another good source for me to look at, as the story line itself relates to the notion of time that cannot be made tangible and manipulated.
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