Review article

Bodily Conditionality of Film

Ivana Keser Battista orcid.org/0000-0003-1236-834X ; University of Zagreb, Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The paper deals with the layered relationship between film and different modes of representing corporeality, i.e. its extremes: from allegorical representation to the emphasized absence of corporeal aspects. In the last thirty years film finds its foothold in specific cultural contexts, it deals with (bio)political body, the question of abjection, marginality, otherness, the question of identity. Emphasis on corporeality is found in reflexive film, which appears in 1980’s through different conceptions: as abjection film (A. Varda, M. Lee), marginality film, suburban film, as filmic writing (cinécriture), while recently through thematisation of the body it manifests in films of the new French corporeality (in directors such as J.-P. and L. Dardenne, B. Dumont, C. Denis). It is also recognised in films of excess (G. Noé) and aesthetics of appropriation (D. Jarman, M. Slabošpicki), as well as in films that deal with normativity (A. Kiarostami, H. Farocki). These directors are having direct or indirect dialogue with the contemporaries who thematise the body: Jean-Luc Nancy, Gilles Deleuze, Julia Kristeva, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Hélène Cixous, Frantz Fanon, Jacques Derrida, Alain Badiou.

Keywords

corporeality; philosophy; filmosophy; biopolitics; abjection film; marginality film; suburban film; filmic writing; aesthetics of appropriation

Hrčak ID:

158787

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/158787

Publication date:

2.12.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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