Troubled Meaning (Diplom)
- Instabile Audio-Visionen bei John Smith
Author
Location, Date
Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien, Wien, Österreich, 30 June 2016
Keywords
Sound , experimental film
Text
The English experimental filmmaker John Smith is surrounded by explosive idiosyncratic poetics. His films are marked by intentionally unstable and dynamic constructions of meaning in film and can be seen as an autonomous counter-strategy to Classical Hollywood Cinema. This autonomy consists of an unconventional, yet productive co-existence of both classical and avant-garde aesthetics – illusionistic narration and its disruption. The destabilised illusion, the troubled meaning – both result mainly from Smith’s progressive relations between sound and image. He reacts to the supremacy of Natural Sync-Sound with anti-naturalistic and sensorial playful constructions in which sound plays an enhanced role to the images and contributes equally to the ephemeral film realities of John Smith. The specific intention of this diploma thesis is to acknowledge Smith’s particular film practice in two highly significant aspects: his poetics of „troubled meaning“ on the one hand and his innovative sound-image relations on the other. With these, Smith reacts to two historically fabricated norms that are causally interlinked. One, is that our perception of Art is steeped in the longing for legible meaning beyond the material presence. The other – as a result of this – is the hegemony of representative forms and natural relations between sound and image in film. Under these premises, the subsidiary importance of sound, led to the fatal misunderstanding of film as a visual rather than audiovisual medium – which it is by nature. Smith’s films handle this limiting misconception through individual and media-reflective cunning, that this diploma thesis seeks to explore into its poetological details.
Language, Format, Material, Edition
German
Activity List
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- Gabriele Jutz - Supervisor (Graduate Thesis)
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Location
Address
- Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien, Wien, Österreich
- Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
- 1010 Wien
- Österreich