The Sound of Queer Experimental Film

Author(s):  
Juan A. Suárez

This chapter characterises the music and sound of queer experimental film. It starts out with a historical revision of some social, cinematographic and musical developments that impinged on the evolution of queer experimental film. It then theorises about the possibility of a queer sound and music. And it subsequently characterises three modalities of aural queerness: camp, noisiness and dissonance. These modes share an epistemic uncertainty about the location and the very matter of what counts as queer, so that queerness has to be explored as an open question or a potential frame of reference; as a possibility that is communicated by sound just as much as by the image. The chapter takes as examples of these modes both historical filmmakers, such as Jack Smith, Kenneth Anger, Andy Warhol and Barbara Hammer, and more recent ones, such as Hans Scheirl, David Domingo, Jennifer Reeves, Luther Price and William E. Jones.

Author(s):  
Magda Szcześniak

The article considers camouflage and masking as tactics of queering the dominant regime of visibility. Departing from queer critiques of visibility voiced by such theoreticians as Peggy Phelan, Lee Edelman, Rosemary Hennessy, and Hito Steyerl, the author poses the question of what would it mean to queer visibility in a way which wouldn't force queer subjects to return to previously occupied sites of social invisibility. The answer is offered through the analysis of works by Jack Smith, Andy Warhol, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Zach Blas, and Karol Radziszewski.


Screen Bodies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Benjamin Ogrodnik

This article reexamines the career of Roger Jacoby (1945–1985), an abstract painter and gay liberation activist who became renowned for processing film in his darkened bathtub and for films that featured his partner, Ondine, the Andy Warhol Superstar. Through a consideration of film shorts made in the 1970s and 1980s, the article argues that Jacoby’s principal innovation was the exploration of hand-processing, which resulted in films that resembled abstract expressionist paintings in motion. Additionally, it considers hand-processing as an overlooked, albeit powerful, vehicle for expressing non-normative sexuality in American avant-garde film. It situates Jacoby alongside gay filmmakers Kenneth Anger, Gregory Markopoulos, and Jack Smith, and considers how hand-processed media can generate a “corporealized” spectator and disrupt patterns of filmic illusionism and heterosexist protocols of sexual/gender representation.


Author(s):  
André Parente

Resumo Há quase uma década temos pesquisado o cinema de artista no Brasil por meio da análise de seus autores, filmes, videos e instalações. Ao longo do tempo, notamos que uma das principais tendências do cinema experimental produzido pelos artistas brasileiros está relacionada com o processo de hibridização entre o cinema e a fotografia, um tipo de situação híbrida que rompe com as convençõees das formas hegemônicas do cinema e da fotografia, da imagem em movimento e da imagem fixa. Neste sentido, decidimos desenvolver uma reflexão crítica que tem como objeto a relação entre cinema e fotografia no campo ampliado da arte contemporânea brasileira. Esta pesquisa se faz necessária por três razões: em primeiro lugar, a maioria dos teóricos e críticos da fotografia e do cinema rejeita estas experiências, visto que, para eles, elas escapam às convenções associadas a esses meios. Em segundo lugar, os críticos e teóricos da arte, em cujos circuitos esses trabalhos circulam mais frequentemente, no mais das vezes, não possuem o instrumental conceitual necessário para analisar esses fenômenos e, portanto, o fazem de forma muito superficial. Finalmente, os raros críticos capazes de analisar essa produção híbrida acabam por privilegiar obras estrangeiras consagradas (Andy Warhol, Hollis Frampton, Michael Snow, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Douglas Gordon, David Claerbout, só para citar alguns dos mais conhecidos) que se inserem dentro da problemática – no máximo levam em conta a série “Cosmococas”, de Hélio Oiticica e Neville d’Almeida, já que ela ganhou um status internacional –, deixando de lado, por preguiça ou insegurança, a produção nacional, que é muito extensa e potente.   Abstract For almost a decade we have researched film artist in Brazil through analysis of their authors, films, videos and installations. Over time, we noticed that one of the main trends of the experimental film produced by Brazilian artists is related to the process of hybridization between cinema and photography, a kind of hybrid situation that breaks with the conventions of hegemonic forms of cinema and photography , the moving image and still image. In this sense, we decided to develop a critical reflection that focuses the relationship between film and photography in expanded field of contemporary Brazilian art. This research is necessary for three reasons: first, most theorists and critics of photography and film rejects these experiences because, for them, they escape the conventions associated with these means. Secondly, critics and art theorists, whose circuits in these works circulate more frequently, in most cases, lack the conceptual instruments necessary to analyze these phenomena and therefore do a very superficial way. Finally, critics can analyze this rare hybrid production ultimately privileging foreign works devoted (Andy Warhol, Hollis Frampton, Michael Snow, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Douglas Gordon, David Claerbout, just to name a few of the best known) that fall within the problem - maximum take into account the “Cosmococas” series, He?lio Oiticica and Neville d’Almeida, since she gained an international status - leaving aside, for laziness or insecurity, domestic production, which is very extensive and powerful.  


2000 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andries Van Aarde

The purpose of this study is to suggest a socio-historical frame of reference within which 2 Thessalonians may have communicated meaningfully with its intended readers. The question of the historical background of 2 Thessalonians is discussed within the context of the question of the letter's authorship. First, the article focuses on the traditional view that Paul was the author and that the delayed parousia was the issue he addressed. Second, the article aims to argue an alternative view: 2 Thessalonians is reread as a pseudepigraph and it is an open question whether the delayed parousia was really the problem the author addressed.


1997 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 203-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias C. Owen

AbstractThe clear evidence of water erosion on the surface of Mars suggests an early climate much more clement than the present one. Using a model for the origin of inner planet atmospheres by icy planetesimal impact, it is possible to reconstruct the original volatile inventory on Mars, starting from the thin atmosphere we observe today. Evidence for cometary impact can be found in the present abundances and isotope ratios of gases in the atmosphere and in SNC meteorites. If we invoke impact erosion to account for the present excess of129Xe, we predict an early inventory equivalent to at least 7.5 bars of CO2. This reservoir of volatiles is adequate to produce a substantial greenhouse effect, provided there is some small addition of SO2(volcanoes) or reduced gases (cometary impact). Thus it seems likely that conditions on early Mars were suitable for the origin of life – biogenic elements and liquid water were present at favorable conditions of pressure and temperature. Whether life began on Mars remains an open question, receiving hints of a positive answer from recent work on one of the Martian meteorites. The implications for habitable zones around other stars include the need to have rocky planets with sufficient mass to preserve atmospheres in the face of intensive early bombardment.


Author(s):  
Dhruba K. Chattoraj ◽  
Ross B. Inman

Electron microscopy of replicating intermediates has been quite useful in understanding the mechanism of DNA replication in DNA molecules of bacteriophage, mitochondria and plasmids. The use of partial denaturation mapping has made the tool more powerful by providing a frame of reference by which the position of the replicating forks in bacteriophage DNA can be determined on the circular replicating molecules. This provided an easy means to find the origin and direction of replication in λ and P2 phage DNA molecules. DNA of temperate E. coli phage 186 was found to have an unique denaturation map and encouraged us to look into its mode of replication.


2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Möller ◽  
Britta Pohlmann ◽  
Lilian Streblow ◽  
Julia Kaufmann

Zusammenfassung: Das I/E-Modell (“Internal/External Frame of Reference Model”) von Marsh (1986) postuliert, dass Schülerinnen und Schüler dimensionale Vergleiche der eigenen Leistungen in einem Fach mit den Leistungen in einem anderen Fach anstellen. Diese Vergleiche führen dazu, dass z. B. Schüler mit guten Leistungen in Mathematik ihre verbalen Fähigkeiten niedriger einschätzen. Gegenstand dieser Untersuchung mit N = 1114 Probanden ist die Frage, ob die Überzeugungen von Personen zum Zusammenhang von mathematischer und verbaler Begabung die Effekte dimensionaler Vergleiche moderieren. Analysen zeigten die Bedeutung der Begabungsüberzeugungen der Schülerinnen und Schüler: Negative Zusammenhänge zwischen den Fachleistungen in einem Fach und dem akademischen Selbstkonzept in einem anderen Fach ergaben sich insbesondere für Personen, die annehmen, dass Begabung domänenspezifisch ist, man also entweder mathematisch oder sprachlich begabt ist. Für Schüler mit eher wenig spezifischer Begabungsüberzeugung ergaben sich geringere Effekte dimensionaler Vergleiche.


1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 263-272
Author(s):  
Jörg Doll ◽  
Michael Dick

The studies reported here focus on similarities and dissimilarities between the terminal value hierarchies ( Rokeach, 1973 ) ascribed to different groups ( Schwartz & Struch, 1990 ). In Study 1, n = 65 East Germans and n = 110 West Germans mutually assess the respective ingroup and outgroup. In this intra-German comparison the West Germans, with a mean intraindividual correlation of rho = 0.609, perceive a significantly greater East-West similarity between the group-related value hierarchies than the East Germans, with a mean rho = 0.400. Study 2 gives East German subjects either a Swiss (n = 58) or Polish (n = 59) frame of reference in the comparison between the categories German and East German. Whereas the Swiss frame of reference should arouse a need for uniqueness, the Polish frame of reference should arouse a need for similarity. In accordance with expectations, the Swiss frame of reference significantly reduces the correlative similarity between German and East German from a mean rho = 0.703 in a control group (n = 59) to a mean rho = 0.518 in the experimental group. Contrary to expectations, the Polish frame of reference does not lead to an increase in perceived similarity (mean rho = 0.712).


2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 221-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne R. Schilling ◽  
Jörn R. Sparfeldt ◽  
Detlef H. Rost

Zusammenfassung: Im Rahmen der Genese schulischer Selbstkonzepte postuliert das “Internal/External Frame of Reference”-Modell (I/E-M, Marsh, 1986 ) zwei (gegenläufige) Vergleichsprozesse: Neben sozialen Vergleichen spielen auch dimensionale Vergleiche (Leistungen in verschiedenen Fächern werden einander gegenübergestellt) eine Rolle. Diese sollen zu Kontrasteffekten führen, d. h. zu negativen Pfaden der Leistung in einem Fach (z. B. Mathematik) auf das Selbstkonzept in einem anderen Fach (z. B. Deutsch). Empirische Untersuchungen konzentrierten sich bislang hauptsächlich auf Mathematik und (Mutter-)Sprache. An N = 1632 Gymnasiasten haben wir das I/E-M strukturgleichungsbasiert für zwei sprachliche (Deutsch, Englisch), zwei naturwissenschaftliche (Physik, Mathematik) und zwei nicht eindeutig einer Domäne zugehörige Fächer (Geschichte, Biologie) überprüft. Neben Kontrasteffekten traten auch Assimilationseffekte (positive Pfade der Leistung in einem Fach auf das Selbstkonzept in einem anderen Fach) auf. Zukünftig müsste präzisiert werden, welche Faktoren das Ergebnis dimensionaler Vergleiche (Assimilation oder Kontrast) moderieren.


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