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https://doi.org/10.38003/ccsr.3.5-6.7
Experimental Science-Fiction Films as Filmic Heterotopia: New Imaginaries/New Worlds
Matilda Holloway
; Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès
Abstract
This paper questions the concept of the possible heterotopia of cinema by making a
creative reading of a corpus of contemporary experimental science-fiction films. We
think heterotopia in direct relation to utopia. If utopia can be linked to a form of thought,
then heterotopia would be a form of realised or achievable utopia. Heterotopian action
would then allow us to experiment subversive, if not new social configurations, where
utopian thought allows us to dream of better (or at least other) societies. We propose to
look at these issues starting from experimental science-fiction films. The aesthetic and
narrative resorts as well as the modes of production of works like Slow Action and Urth by
Ben Rivers, Meteor by Mathias Müller and Christoph Girardet, Momoko Seto’s Planet Series
or Jérôme Cognet’s Guerilla Hubble, indeed offer us with an audiovisual experience that
invites us to re-evaluate our human relation to the world by appealing to our capacity for
imagination and by stimulating our free will, notably through their staging of historicity
and multiplicity.
Keywords
heterotopia, science-fiction, film studies, contemporary cinema, experimental film
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328122
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Publication date:
31.12.2021.
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