Living Screens by Monique Rooney

Author:Monique Rooney [Rooney, Monique]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Media Studies, Literary Criticism, Drama, Semiotics & Theory, Performing Arts, Film, History & Criticism, Television
ISBN: 9781783480487
Google: yuDaDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015-08-28T03:28:56+00:00

PLASTIC MELODRAMACHOLIA

Melancholia is about metamorphosis and is itself a Galatea-like art object, a technology that reforms itself through the giving and taking of form, through the sculpting of old with new media. Throughout his career, von Trier has engaged aesthetically and rhetorically with the role of cinema in a changing environment. The following is, for example, an official statement from the website for his film Dogville (2003). Part humorous and part serious, it engages with the impact of digital technologies on filmmaking:

At the beginning of my career, I made very ‘filmic’ films. The problem is that now, it has become too easy—all you have to do is buy a computer and you are ‘filmic.’ You have armies rampaging over mountains, you have dragons. You just push a button. I think it was okay to be ‘filmic’ when, for instance, Kubrick had to wait two months for the light on the mountain behind Barry Lyndon when he was riding towards us. I think that was great. But if you only have to wait two seconds and then some kid with a computer fills it in. . . . It’s another art form, I’m sure, but I’m not interested. I don’t see armies going over mountains, I only see some youngster with a computer saying, ‘Let’s do this a little more tastefully, let’s put some shadows in, let’s bleach the colours out a little.’ It’s extremely well done and it doesn’t move me at all. It feels like manipulation to a degree that I don’t want to be manipulated. (Trier 2003a)5

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