Breve nota sobre una estética de la ausencia o panfleto por un cine extremo

• Autores: Carlos Losilla Alcalde
• Localización: Archivos de la filmoteca: revista de estudios históricos sobre la imagen, ISSN 0214-6606, Nº 55, 2007 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Representaciones de la guerra; Experiencias extremas), págs. 114-125
• Idioma: español
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  • A few words on the aesthetic of absence or a pamphlet for an extreme film
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  • Following in the footsteps of Deleuze, after classic-cinema’s moving image and modern cinema’s time-image, the author attempts to lay down the criteria for the absence-image of post-modern cinema. A vacuum that leads to the absence of meaning, and to the cessation of feeling. A tug-ofwar between the material and the spiritual world that summons bodies and ghosts at the same time.

    This concept was illustrated in the most radical films of the time (Gus van Sant, Tsai Ming-liang, Claire Denis) and surprisingly, in commercial films (M. Night Shyamalan, Jared Hess). Both are polarized extremities, yet they both lead to extreme cinema