Remembered Film

by Victor Burgin

Overview

This book uniquely addresses a previously overlooked aspect of cinema: the isolated fragments of films, iconic images or scenes, that fleetingly cross our perceptions and thoughts in the course of everyday life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781861895820
Publisher:	Reaktion Books, Limited
Publication date:	02/03/2012
Series:	non-series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Artist and writer Victor Burgin is Millard Chair of Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness at the University of California. His theoretical works include In/Different Spaces (1996), The End of Art Theory (1986) and Thinking Photography (1982), and monographs of his visual work include Some Cities (Reaktion, 1996) and Relocating (2002). His photographic and video works are represented in major museum collections worldwide.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Noise of the Marketplace
2. Barthes' Discretion
3. Jenni's Room: Exhibitionism and Solitude
4. The Remembered Film
5. Mies in Maurelia
6. Marker Marked
7. Coda: Possessive, Pensive and Possessed
References
Acknowledgements

Editorial Reviews

"Victor Burgin takes the idea of the remembered or shared film rather differently, bringing it outside the auditorium and into the 'cinematic heterotopic': our image-saturated world"

The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) - Emilie Bickerton

"Burgin explores the impressionistic qualities of cinema and how, in
recollection, the viewer relates to image: exploring how memory and
circumstance place certain sequences in our psyches, the overwhelming beauty
of certain images and sequences becoming larger than the bodies of work
they¹ve hailed from . . . Burgin's art swoon is nearly as tempting as some
of the beauty he finds in small, strange places."

i-D Magazine