He’s Not There: Robert Frank’s Me and My Brother
The world of which I am a part includes Julius Orlovsky. Julius is a catatonic, a silent man; he is released from a state institution in the care of his…
Monochrome Now: Digital Black and White Cinema and the Photographic Past
Fig. 1 One of the core values of the photograph as a visual object of communication is its temporal, emotional and connotative variety. In relation to motion and speed, the…
The Album of Everyday Life: The Photograph in the Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan
In Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s films, photography is present in the everyday lives of the characters. Their homes are decorated with family portraits and holiday snaps. Some of them are photographers…
Profils Paysans
Profils Paysans (Farmer Profiles) is a film divided into three chapters made by Raymond Depardon and Claudine Nougaret centred on the lives of small farmers in the Cévennes region in…
Cinema Lucida: Johan van der Keuken and the Meaning of Loss
Images virtually rob us of our memory, because they replace it. – Johan van der Keuken[1] Johan van der Keuken was born in Amsterdam in 1938; he died from prostate…
The Time of Sculpture: Film, Photography and Auguste Rodin
Figure 1. The Kiss, Auguste Rodin, photographed by Eugene Druet, c. 1900. Part of a series of photographs in the collection of the Musée Rodin in Paris taken of…
Film as an Archive for Photography: The Portraitist as Witness to the Holocaust
Harun Farocki reflects on the filmstrip-as-archive in a handful of films and writings from the 1990s.[1] In films such as Der Ausdruck der Hände (The Expression of Hands, 1997) and…
David Claerbout’s Digital Pensive Images
The video installation works of Belgian artist David Claerbout explore the “pensive image” since they confront the viewer with photographs, whose mode of stillness guides her towards the contemplation of…