Publication details
Sadismus vůči diváctvu filmového díla: Liminální zkušenost a modulace percepce při performanci Náš očistec (Martin Ježek, 2021)
| Title in English | Sadism Against the Film Spectator. Liminal Experience and Modulation of Perception in the Performance Our Purgatory (Martin Ježek, 2021) |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Iluminace |
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| Web | https://iluminace.cz/artkey/ilu-202401-0002_sadism-against-the-film-spectatorliminal-experience-and-modulation-of-perception-in-the-performance-our-purgato.php |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.58193/ilu.1772 |
| Keywords | Our Purgatory; liminality; Martin Ježek; expanded cinema; perception |
| Description | Some filmmakers have chosen not to convey a story to the audience, but to directly attack their senses. In this study, we will examine Martin Ježek's expanded cinema performance Our Purgatory (2021), which uses various techniques to target this type of affective spectatorship. It can only be encountered in the form of a performance, so we will draw on the texts of the theatre scholar Erika Fischer-Lichte, who has developed a concept of the aesthetics of performativity that offers a suitable theoretical basis for research on event-based artworks. Using the notion of liminality, which Fischer-Lichte uses to grasp the transformation of the audience's physical and sensory experience during a performance, we will then attempt to explore the various ways in which Our Purgatory modulates the audience's perception. Texts from the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and phenomenology will also be important for us to grasp a mode of bodily experience that resists the order of signification. In the analytical part of the thesis, we will focus on the visual components of Our Purgatory, working, among other things, with the aggressive stroboscopy typical for structural film and the flash and freeze technique of spontaneous film. Next, we will focus on its chaotic soundtrack, and then explore the moment of deliberate silence and darkness realized in this film performance, which offers the potential for the emergence of a specific temporality. |
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