Hi Ittai, Yours is an interesting pursuit! Much luck to you in your study. Your thoughts reminded me of an interview I heard with David Lynch (forgive me, I cannot remember where) where he spoke about the "eye of the duck" as being an element of his films. Interestingly, I think he was referring to this moment as being both an incoherence and an axis - in that the event is distracting/surprising/etc - yet confirming of some internal or underlying structure. his thoughts may be a helpful place to continue your study.
Best, Bryan Bryan McManus Aritist, Filmmaker bryanmcmanus.com On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Ittai Rosenbaum <itta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > My name is Ittai Rosenbaum, I am a doctoral student at the music > composition department at UCSC and in the process of defining my > Qualification Exams topics. I wondered if anyone could perhaps have > interesting knowledge or insights about a subject in film theory that might > parallel one of my topics. > > I am interested in singular events in composition: events that occur only > once, contrasted and incoherent to the main musical language of the work, > yet deliberately conceived and intentionally inserted in the composition, > contributing, by way of distraction and surprise, to the conception of the > piece. > > Coherence seems to constitute a compulsory element in composition, and > even incoherence (surprise, collage etc.) as it happens in the music of, > say, Charles Ives, George Crumb or John Zorn, becomes coherent and even > homogenous once it recurs. I suspect that *singular*, incoherent events > may have a genuine effect, different than that. > > I am interested in parallel or similar phenomena in film, as my own > compositions are more than often related to the visual, verbal, social and > other elements usually inherent in film. > Far from an expert in films, I do recall several instances where I felt I > have viewed such singular events in film: the awakening in Chris Marker’s > La jetée – a single moment of two seconds of movement in a film made > entirely of stills, some moments that I can't recall now in Fellini's films > (although usually there is a certain "homogeneity of singularity" in the > ones I saw), and a comic one, in Mel Brooks’s *Silent Movie*, when the > famous pantomime Marcel Marceau utters the only single word in the film: > “no!” > > I would be very interested to know if this is something that has been > written about and generally what your experience and opinion is. > > thank you > > > -- > Ittai Rosenbaum > www.ittairosenbaum.com > > (650) 704-6566 > > PRÆSENTEM > > http://earbits.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > >
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