Joan of Arc, Computational Montage

In defining the role of cinema, not as a medium for capturing absolute reality, but as a means of articulating perceived reality. Danish film director, Carl Theodor Dreyer's primary interest was in capturing the indefinable essence of human suffering. In his film, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Dryer concentrates on the physical toll of Joan's psychological ordeal. He translates the unattainable and resolute piety of Joan the saint into the accessible language of compassion for the pain and suffering of Joan the human.

By choosing select frames of the film and computation I try to give another time and duration of shape to these beautiful images of emotion. The computation is just a slightly varied algorithm to the one used in video, 'For Peter Kubelka'. It's kind of like working with a void and a plenum with the same metric signature. Kubelka is Donald Judd and Dryer, Jan Van Eyck.

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Film & Animation

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• Carl
• Theodor
• Dreyer
• Joan
• of
• Arc
• algorithmic
• procedures
• speeds
• drifts
• points
• intensity
• montage
• marc
• lafia