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 âfilmicâ films. The problem is that now, it has become too easyâall you have to do is buy a computer and you are âfilmic.â You have armies rampaging over mountains, you have dragons. You just push a button. I think it was okay to be âfilmicâ 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. . . . Itâs another art form, Iâm sure, but Iâm not interested. I donât see armies going over mountains, I only see some youngster with a computer saying, âLetâs do this a little more tastefully, letâs put some shadows in, letâs bleach the colours out a little.â Itâs extremely well done and it doesnât move me at all. It feels like manipulation to a degree that I donât want to be manipulated. (Trier 2003a)5
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