‘Nothing Ever Ends’:Angelopoulos and the Image of Duration

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asbjørn Grønstad
Keyword(s):  
Past Experience ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Temporal Duration ◽  
The Past ◽  
Experiential Mode

This chapter examines Theo Angelopoulos' last film The Dust of Time (2008), describing it as an apotheosis to the director's visual investment in duration. In The Dust of Time, a voice-over declares that ‘nothing ever ends’. The dust of time is the obliviousness of history. It would seem that the temporality of history is couched in opacity, whereas the work of memory struggles to bring a sense of lucidity to the past, to past experience and, finally, to the experience of the past in the present. The chapter considers The Dust of Time's consistent foregrounding of duration as both aesthetic effect and experiential mode, and how Angelopoulos' films in general encapsulate both these senses of temporal duration: that is, as a phenomenon intimately connected with the nature of the moving image and, secondly, as the more thematic and philosophical notion that ‘nothing ever ends’.

Digital 3D, Parallax Effects, and the Construction of Film Space in Tangled 3D and Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3D

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen Whissel
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Ideal Case ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
The Past ◽  
Parallax Effects

This essay analyzes how parallax effects in Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3D (2010) and Tangled 3D (2010) effectively blur the boundaries between the past and present, sight and touch, and diegetic space and the space of reception in order to give form to themes concerning the dimensionality of the moving image. I show how these films function as ideal case studies for demonstrating digital 3D’s transformation of film space by organizing seeing, knowing, and feeling along the screen’s z-axis.

scholarly journals Filmic witness to the 1964 Kitty Genovese murder

Urban History ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 642-642
Author(s):  
CARRIE RENTSCHLER
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Male Violence ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
High Rise ◽  
The Past ◽  
City Street ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

ABSTRACTThis essay examines a body of films that represent and re-enact the infamous 1964 Catherine Genovese rape and murder, helping to define the crime as a problem of bystander non-intervention exacerbated by urban living conditions and the ‘high rise anxieties’ of apartment dwellers. The moving image culture around the Genovese case tells a story about male violence against women in the city through the perspective of urban apartment dwellers, who are portrayed as bystander witnesses to both the city and to the social relations of stranger sociability in the city. Films depict the killing of Kitty Genovese, sometimes through fictional analogues to her and the crime, as an outcome of failed witnessing, explicating those failures around changing ideas about urban social relations between strangers, and ways of surveilling the city street from apartment windows. By portraying urban bystanders as primarily non-interventionist spectators of the Genovese rape and murder, films locate the conditions of femicide and responsibility for it in detached modes of seeing and encountering strangers. By analysing film as forms of historic documentation and imagination, as artifacts of historically and contextually different ways of telling and revising the story of the Genovese murder as one of bystander non-intervention in gender violence in the city, the essay conceptualizes film and filmic re-enactments as a mode of paying witness to the past.

Physical Interpretations of Mathematical Expressions, as a Potent Tool of Engineering

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shmariahu Sam Yedidiah
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Past Experience ◽  
Case Histories ◽  
Actual Case ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mathematical Expressions

The presented study demonstrates the enormous potentials of translating mathematical expressions into their relevant physical meanings. In the past, such translations have proven capable of explaining the cause(s) of phenomena, which seemed to defy all principles of common sense. In other cases, they were able to rectify deeply rooted misconceptions, which haunted the engineers for many decades. Among others, they have revealed the need for revising everything what has been done in the last eight decades in relation to the head developed by an impeller. All the above conclusions are here supported by actual case histories from past experience. The discussions presented in this study relate directly to the design of centrifugal and other rotodynamic pumps. However, there exist strong indications, that such translations may prove equally useful also in other fields of engineering.

Life histories and the perspective of the present

2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaretha Järvinen
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Past Experience ◽  
The Self ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
True Self ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
The Past

The purpose of the article is to suggest a development of the narrative life history tradition along the lines represented by George Herbert Mead and Paul Ricoeur. This theoretical approach is presented as an alternative to both subjectivist approaches, that continue the search for the solitary, true self behind the life histories, and to structuralist approaches, in which the self and its past experience disappears. In the article a theoretical framework is sketched that a) focuses on “the perspective of the present” but does not lose sight of the past, and b) emphasizes the interactionist dimensions of life histories but also pays attention to the self and its ongoing projects. The reasonings of Mead and Ricoeur are applied to a series of empirical examples, drawn from different areas of life history research. (Time, Narrative, Emplotment, Life Histories, Self, Mead, Ricoeur)

scholarly journals Moving Emotions: Affect, the Archive and the Moving Image

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-204
Author(s):  
Caterina Albano
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Found Footage ◽  
The Past ◽  
Home Movies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Archival Record ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
Lauren Berlant

This article considers the significance of the moving image as an archival record and its implications for the ways in which memory interacts with history. As a defining technology of recording and documenting, film is entangled with history in its making: however, what kinds of narrative ensues from images whose contextual references are opaque to us? What can we garner from footage whose indexical connections have been lost? By focusing on the artistic practice of filmmakers Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, I suggest a reading of early-twentieth-century archival film footage, including found footage and home movies, in terms of affect. Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi's approach focuses on the procedural features of the frame and an excavation of the features that can be drawn from its defining connotations. Through an excavation of the most minute details within the frame, they point out the kind of ‘presence’ that film projects back to us as gesture, expression, and movement and abstract from them forgotten memories of everyday encounters and the affective forms that mundane actions took. In particular, I shall focus on works by Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi's that deal with encounters with ‘the other’ and the visual practices of representation that inform them. The legibility that Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi's approach brings to a reading of archival film footage is indicative for broader methodological considerations of the ways in which the moving image encodes affect and emotion. This is relevant for an understanding of what Lauren Berlant refers to as the ‘realm of the social’ by uncovering the structures of perception and representation of the past and the significance that they might take in the present.

Theorising the EU in crisis: de-Europeanisation as disintegration

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Rosamond
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Real World ◽  
Past Experience ◽  
The Past ◽  
Perfect Storm ◽  
Eu Studies ◽  
The Eu

The current 'perfect storm' of European crises seems to provide evidence that the EU is suffering from severe tensions that could reverse many of the key integration gains of the past seven decades. The presence of apparently existential threats to the EU has provoked calls to theorise 'disintegration'. This presumes, first and foremost, that scholarship is lagging behind urgent real world developments. It could also be argued that any attempt to theorise integration should by definition be capable of theorising disintegration. EU studies scholarship has tended, in recent years, to shy away from the analysis of integration, developing instead a range of subliteratures that together presume institutional and systemic resilience. The paper makes three broad arguments. First, it notes that any return to the analysis of integration/disintegration presents a risk for scholarship, namely the fallacy of sampling from past experience to project future probabilities. Second, it demonstrates that earlier neofunctionalist scholarship had, in fact, developed quite sophisticated accounts of disintegration, which, in turn illustrated the importance of understanding the key role played by political economy and sociological dynamics in European integration. Finally, the paper explores the ways in which extant scholarly knowledge about the EU may inhibit the development of robust policy understanding of potentially disintegrative dynamics.

Managing talent in human resource : a Knowledge Discovery in Database (KDD) approach

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Hamidah Jantan ◽  
Abdul Razak Hamdan ◽  
Zulaiha Ali Othman
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Discovery ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Talent Management ◽  
Past Experience ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Development Finance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Knowledge Discovery In Database ◽  
The Right

In any organization, managing human talent is very important and need more attentions from Human Resource (HR) professionals. Nowadays, among the challenges of HR professionals is to manage an organization’s talent, especially to ensure the right person is assigned to the right job at the right time. Knowledge Discovery in Database (KDD) is a data analysis approach that is commonly used for classification and prediction; and this approach has been widely used in many fields such as manufacturing, development, finance and etc. However, this approach has not attracted people in human resource especially for talent management. For this reason, this paper presents an overview of some talent management problems that can be solved by using KDD approach. In this study, we attempt to implement one of the talent management tasks i.e. identifying potential talent by predicting their performance. The employee’s performance can be predicted based on the past experience knowledge which is discovered from existing databases. Finally, this paper proposes the suggested framework for talent management using KDD approach.

Temporal self-appraisal in a Chinese context: Distancing autobiographical memory following self-uncertainty salience

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Qing Yang ◽  
Oscar Ybarra ◽  
Kees van den Bos ◽  
Yufang Zhao ◽  
Lili Guan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Past Experience ◽  
Asian Culture ◽  
Chinese Sample ◽  
Chinese Context ◽  
The Past ◽  
East Asian Culture ◽  
Past Experiences

On the premise that individuals are inclined to self-enhance, in temporal self-appraisal (TSA) theory it is suggested that people can motivationally reconstruct subjective distances from their past self to serve that goal. However, given the mixed evidence found in an East Asian cultural context (i.e., Japan), it is important to test the cultural applicability of TSA in a different East Asian culture. Thus we tested the TSA of a Chinese sample, focusing on past-self distance reconstruction. The results supported the prediction suggested in TSA theory, in that participants tended to feel farther away from negative (vs. positive) past experiences. Further, this effect was greater when people were primed with a self-threat (i.e., self-uncertainty salience). These patterns were found independently of whether the past experience was recent (3 months ago) or in the distant past (3 years ago). Implications for crosscultural applicability of TSA theory are discussed.

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