Barbara Hammer's Jane Brakhage

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-94
Author(s):  
Jennifer Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Short Film ◽  
Nonfiction Film ◽  
Feminist Thought ◽  
Environmental Thought ◽  
Stan Brakhage ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Creative Life

This essay analyzes Barbara Hammer's 1974 experimental nonfiction film Jane Brakhage. Both an homage and a rebuttal to the many films of Jane Brakhage made by her husband, Stan Brakhage, Hammer's film gives Jane the voice she never had in Stan's work. The article contextualizes Jane Brakhage's production at a moment when competing strands of feminist thought took different approaches to the fraught topic of nature. Hammer's films were criticized as essentialist by feminists in the 1980s, but this essay argues that Jane Brakhage complicates that reading of Hammer's work. The film documents Jane's creative life in the mountains, but critiques the limitations of her role as a heterosexual wife and mother. By locating this short film within a larger genealogy of feminist and environmental thought, we can better appreciate the extent to which Hammer's films explore the feminist and queer potential of nature.

scholarly journals From Poetry to Politics: The Gifts and Talents of Michael Rosen

1944 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Steigel ◽  
Joyce Bainbridge
Keyword(s):  
Oral Language ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Children's Writing ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Voice

Michael Rosen is a well-known poet, author, radio broadcaster, playwright and speaker in the UK, with over a hundred books to his credit. In his writing and in the many workshops he gives, Rosen focuses on the spoken word and the “voice” of the child. He believes oral language forms the basis for children’s writing. To that end, he encourages teachers to capitalize on the child’s voice and experiences as they introduce children to the art of writing and motivate them to write for pleasure.

scholarly journals What has the beast’s mark to do with the COVID-19 vaccination, and what is the role of the church and answering to the Christians?

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rantoa Letšosa
Keyword(s):  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
The Many ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Research Stage ◽  
The Church

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) escalated into a real pandemic within 3.5 months and had caused 183 000 deaths in 2020. The complexities of COVID-19 since the end of 2019 and throughout 2020 left a mouth full and the second wave has not least to be said. The purpose of this article is to challenge the response of the church in a time when her voice is mostly needed. During the lockdown Level 5, churches were amongst the many trends that had to close their doors to the believers and the community. This was a great shock because churches throughout history have been known as safe havens and anchorages. Churches helped with answers to unanswered questions, and in some instances, confessional statements and creeds were born. In the case of COVID-19, a lot of conspiracy theories went viral about COVID-19 and the vaccines that were still in their research stage. Lots of speculations rose as to the cause of this pandemic. The implementation of 5G was viewed as the cause of the coronavirus at the beginning of 2020, and much had to be done to correct this fallacy. Another controversial fallacy was the link of the vaccination with the beast’s mark, as was recently also insinuated in Chief Justice’s prayer. Questions have already been asked, what is the voice of the church in this regard? Congregation deals with this in different ways. Hence the relevance to the question, how timely can exegesis be to contemporary ecclesiology? What would be relevant hermeneutics that could assist in embodying faith in a corona-defined world?Contribution: This article strives to develop an interpretation of 666 that could be relevant to the questions asked and suggest a way forward in embodying faith in a corona-defined world and beyond.

The Voice That Crieth in the Wilderness: F. W. J. Schelling and Toni Morrison’s Primordial Longing

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 70-82
Author(s):  
Jared Kenrick Nieft
Keyword(s):  
American Slavery ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The World ◽  
History Force ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Voice

Abstract This paper explores the relationship between Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel, Beloved, and F. W. J. Schelling’s 1813 draft of Ages of the World (Die Weltalter). It shows that Die Weltalter, contrary to much recent scholarship, which often stresses the many ways Schelling anticipated the antimetaphysical trends of post-Hegelian thought, should be first approached as a genuine attempt tobe faithful to the event of first creation and time’s “indivisible remainders”. The paper will show that Schelling’s “indivisible remainders”, the forgotten and “disremembered” of history, force his thought to the limits of Romantic and idealist reflection and toward the traumatic encounters of Beloved. Morrison’s depiction of the irrepressible longing for life and recognition amid the pain and ugliness of American slavery parallels Schelling’s efforts to understand the tremendous need for life and fellowship that first urged god toward creation, when primordial longing was overcome in a child and a god entered time.

Silenced Images, Fragmented Histories

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-239
Author(s):  
Benjamin Ogrodnik
Keyword(s):  
Short Film ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Visual Form ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Stan Brakhage

Sharon Green's short film Self Portrait of a Nude Model Turned Cinematographer (1971) represents a collision of incipient cinefeminism and autobiographical filmmaking. Containing a blend of still photographs and subjective moving-image shots of her body, the work has largely been overlooked because of a reductive framing of it as mere homage to male avant-garde artists such as Stan Brakhage, for whom Green was a nude model. By analyzing aspects of visual form, production, and exhibition, this article performs a corrective “microhistory” that reclaims Green's film as an important hybrid of erotic self-portraiture and social critique. It also situates Green in relation to proximate artists Carolee Schneemann and Yvonne Rainer. Despite ongoing neglect of the work, Green's Self Portrait remains a potent visual archive that reveals the power hierarchies of the 1970s film community in Pittsburgh, while it questions the masculinist assumptions that underlie avant-garde media and historiography.

The Poetry of Everyday Life

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Zeitlin ◽  
Bob Holman
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
National Crisis ◽  
The People ◽  
Ping Pong ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Cave Paintings ◽  
The Many ◽  
Creative Life

This is a book of encounters. Part memoir, part essay, and partly a guide to maximizing a capacity for fulfillment and expression, this book taps into the artistic side of what we often take for granted in everyday life: the stories we tell, the people we love, the metaphors used by scientists, even our sex lives. This book explores how poems serve us in daily life and how they are used in times of personal and national crisis. The text explores meaning and experience, covering topics ranging from poetry in the life cycle to the contemporary uses of ancient myths. The book introduces readers to the many eccentric and visionary characters the author has met in his career as a folklorist. Covering topics from Ping-Pong to cave paintings, from family poetry nights to delectable dishes at his favorite ethnic restaurants, the book aims to inspire readers to expand their consciousness of the beauty that resides in everyday things and to use creative expression to engage and animate that beauty toward living a more fulfilling awakened life, full of laughter. To live a creative life is the best way to engage with the beauty of the everyday.

The Inner Life of Sound

2020 ◽  
pp. 74-84
Author(s):  
Walter S. Reiter
Keyword(s):  
Essential Element ◽  
Musical Expression ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Constant Attention ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Many ◽  
Messa Di Voce ◽  
The Voice

One essential element of musical expression is the living sound, capable of holding the constant attention of the audience. This lesson traces that ubiquitous concept from Caccini’s “swelling and abating of the voice” (1602) to the violin études of Mazas (1843). In the Baroque sound world, free from the all-pervasive vibrato of modern times, it was the responsibility of the bow to provide this ‘inner life of sound.’ Based mainly on the writings of Tartini, Geminiani, and Leopold Mozart, all of whom are quoted, this lesson contains five exercises for perfecting the expressive device that guaranteed this living sound, the “Messa di voce.” The many different aspects of its technique, gleaned from the sources, are isolated and explained in detail, from simple pressure with the forefinger to the addition of vibrato: two composers who indicated this device in their compositions, Veracini and Piani, are quoted and illustrated.

The Voice to Parliament proposal and ‘the people’ of the Constitution

2021 ◽  
pp. 1037969X2110108
Author(s):  
Elisa Arcioni
Keyword(s):  
Representative Government ◽  
High Court ◽  
The People ◽  
Political Roles ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Voice ◽  
The Way

The concept of ‘the people' in the Australian Constitution is at the heart of our system of representative government. The Voice proposal in the Uluru Statement from the Heart is consistent with the way in which ‘the people’ have been understood by the High Court – both their identity and their political roles under the Constitution. This consistency is one of the many reasons to support constitutional enshrinement of the Voice.

How the Primer-Literate Read Ming Steles: A Digital Speculation

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-109
Author(s):  
Sarah Schneewind
Keyword(s):  
Digital Tool ◽  
Common People ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
Political Messages ◽  
Public Monuments ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Voice

AbstractHistorians disagree about the role of literacy in Ming society. Certainly, the stone inscriptions that littered the Chinese landscape displayed elaborate essays showing the gentry author's erudition and compositional skill. Yet steles for shrines to living officials also sent political messages. They authorized and amplified the voice of “the common people,” embodying and explicitly arguing for a popular voice in the evaluation of magistrates and prefects. How were these texts on public monuments understood by the many Ming people with only basic literacy? The Late Imperial Primer Literacy Sieve is a digital tool that sifts a target text, such as a commemorative stele, leaving only the characters found in one or more primers. The Sieve may bring us closer to understanding not only what was written, but what was read. The article argues that the message of premortem steles about popular participation could indeed come across.

The Voice of Willard Hurst

2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred S. Konefsky
Keyword(s):  
Legal History ◽  
Law School ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Voice

Though I corresponded with Willard Hurst over the last twenty-five years, I met him only once. Hurst did not often attend events or meetings outside of Madison, but in 1971 he appeared at a legal history conference at the Harvard Law School to herald the renaissance in the field of American legal history, a renewal in many ways directly traceable to Hurst's own work and influence. I had just graduated from law school and was beginning my apprenticeship as a legal historian. With great trepidation I walked up to him to introduce myself at a reception on the first day of the conference. I was surprised when he seemed to recognize my name (I think a list of conference participants may have been circulated in advance), but even more astonished when he said, “Let's go find a quiet corner, I want to talk to you about your father.” My father, Samuel J. Konefsky, had died less than a year before, and Hurst's brief conversation with me was the first of the many kindnesses of his that I experienced.

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