57 min
Episode 12: Media Archeology, Autoethnography, and “Getting Personal” SOUNDPROOF
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- Performing Arts
Cinesthesia 12 Original Broadcast April 11, 2024 Radio Playlist 1. The Dust Brothers / Who is Tyler Durden? (film: Fight Club) 2. William Tyler / A Clearing in the Field (film: First Cow) 3. Marc Junker / Finding Your Way (from: Prepared Piano 1.0) 4. Oliver Patrice Weder / I’d Like the Birds to Teach Me How to Fly (from: The Shoe Factory) 5. Marc Junker / Beyond (from: Prepared Piano 1.0) 6. Oliver Patrice Weder / Breathe Out (from: The Shoe Factory) 7. Marc Junker / ~(crashed)~ (from: Prepared Piano 1.0) 8. William Tyler / The Separation (film: First Cow) 9. Marc Junker / Skeuomorph (from: Prepared Piano 1.0) 10. Oliver Patrice Weder / Modern Times (from: The Shoe Factory) 11. The Dust Brothers / What is Fight Club? (film: Fight Club) 12. Marc Junker / Wind Theme (from: Prepared Piano 1.0) 13. Oliver Patrice Weder / True Heroes (from: The Shoe Factory) 14. Marc Junker / Pour You (from: Prepared Piano 1.0) 15. Marc Junker / Sea of Clouds (from: Prepared Piano 1.0) 16. Oliver Patrice Weder / Breathe In (from: The Shoe Factory) 17. Marc Junker / Extremities (from: Prepared Piano 1.0) 18. Oliver Patrice Weder / Home At Last (from: The Shoe Factory) 19. Oliver Patrice Weder / The Factory Song (from: The Shoe Factory)
I’m in love with a genre of filmmaking — the self-inscribed film, when filmmakers use the camera/pen to write their personal story cinematically. Once only in realm of the avant-garde, it’s now a ubiquitous way of making movies. As much as I could, I’ve been following the development of this genre since I became aware of it through the work of Chris Marker in the early 90s. Having seen only Hollywood films before, encountering Sans Soleil (1982) literally changed my life. The movie showed me a way to make films on my own. And, it must have influenced somehow a pivotal point in the making of my student film, The Best Waitress in the World (1992). It changed from the concept of documenting a waitress to making a film about my creative process. It was a switch from artifice to authenticity. I asked, “why fake an audience? What’s wrong with telling them that a film is being made? That’s the truth. The filmmaker is always part of the story. The presence of the observer changes the observed. Taking that into consideration, one must be upfront the manipulation of sound and images. Yet, it’s almost impossible to show the behind the scenes of editing. It has been attempted by filmmaker Orson Welles in his documentary F For Fake (1973) where it was important to expose the lies, so, for a brief moment, the camera pulled back to show Welles in an editing suite.
READ MORE: https://laalfonso.substack.com
Marc Junker Prepared Piano 1.0 https://junker.bandcamp.com/album/prepared-piano-10
Oliver Patrice Weder The Shoe Factory https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-shoe-factory
Cinesthesia 12 Original Broadcast April 11, 2024 Radio Playlist 1. The Dust Brothers / Who is Tyler Durden? (film: Fight Club) 2. William Tyler / A Clearing in the Field (film: First Cow) 3. Marc Junker / Finding Your Way (from: Prepared Piano 1.0) 4. Oliver Patrice Weder / I’d Like the Birds to Teach Me How to Fly (from: The Shoe Factory) 5. Marc Junker / Beyond (from: Prepared Piano 1.0) 6. Oliver Patrice Weder / Breathe Out (from: The Shoe Factory) 7. Marc Junker / ~(crashed)~ (from: Prepared Piano 1.0) 8. William Tyler / The Separation (film: First Cow) 9. Marc Junker / Skeuomorph (from: Prepared Piano 1.0) 10. Oliver Patrice Weder / Modern Times (from: The Shoe Factory) 11. The Dust Brothers / What is Fight Club? (film: Fight Club) 12. Marc Junker / Wind Theme (from: Prepared Piano 1.0) 13. Oliver Patrice Weder / True Heroes (from: The Shoe Factory) 14. Marc Junker / Pour You (from: Prepared Piano 1.0) 15. Marc Junker / Sea of Clouds (from: Prepared Piano 1.0) 16. Oliver Patrice Weder / Breathe In (from: The Shoe Factory) 17. Marc Junker / Extremities (from: Prepared Piano 1.0) 18. Oliver Patrice Weder / Home At Last (from: The Shoe Factory) 19. Oliver Patrice Weder / The Factory Song (from: The Shoe Factory)
I’m in love with a genre of filmmaking — the self-inscribed film, when filmmakers use the camera/pen to write their personal story cinematically. Once only in realm of the avant-garde, it’s now a ubiquitous way of making movies. As much as I could, I’ve been following the development of this genre since I became aware of it through the work of Chris Marker in the early 90s. Having seen only Hollywood films before, encountering Sans Soleil (1982) literally changed my life. The movie showed me a way to make films on my own. And, it must have influenced somehow a pivotal point in the making of my student film, The Best Waitress in the World (1992). It changed from the concept of documenting a waitress to making a film about my creative process. It was a switch from artifice to authenticity. I asked, “why fake an audience? What’s wrong with telling them that a film is being made? That’s the truth. The filmmaker is always part of the story. The presence of the observer changes the observed. Taking that into consideration, one must be upfront the manipulation of sound and images. Yet, it’s almost impossible to show the behind the scenes of editing. It has been attempted by filmmaker Orson Welles in his documentary F For Fake (1973) where it was important to expose the lies, so, for a brief moment, the camera pulled back to show Welles in an editing suite.
READ MORE: https://laalfonso.substack.com
Marc Junker Prepared Piano 1.0 https://junker.bandcamp.com/album/prepared-piano-10
Oliver Patrice Weder The Shoe Factory https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-shoe-factory
57 min