... “Detritus and the Moving Image.” Courtesy of the Freud Museum, London A R C H I V E F O R T H E F U T U R E Breathing in the Archives Amelie Hastie Thoughts were things, to be collected, collated, analyzed, shelved, or resolved.  — H. D., A Tribute...

... Irigaray's argument that Heidegger has “forgotten” the pre-Socratic element air in a philosophy that privileges materiality and vision, I examine popular films that feature air, and in particular breathing, as a central trope. Because of an emphasis on the more obviously material aspects of visual images...

...- propriate breathings and unqualified gestures. I have identified three main dimensions at play in Straub and Huillet’s practice with actors. First, there is the organization of what I refer to as an ignorant encounter between the actors and the unreadable texts that the films are based...

... be too, with bated breath, a snelled hook number four, and a wet fly. No weights or clips. He’d present the bait naturally, that way it would be carried with the current under the stones to the enemy’s intimate entrenchment. They spooked easily and he stalked them with a delicate belligerence...

... Queer Temporality  • 187 this respite lasts for a few seconds at most before the ending sweeps in. Restful periods in Queers are always stolen moments when the player is allowed to breathe and read. Because of the game’s text-­based nature, its pace is con- trolled in unconventional ways...

... cautiously, slowly slipping the key into locker number 181. She opens the door, and in a prolonged moment of anticipation, the camera fixates on Marina's face, her strained breathing and slightly stunned expression the audience's only indication of what has been unmasked inside. A reverse shot divulges...

... the charged air we breathed. The air I now breathe feels weighted with expectancy. I continue to be buoyed by that history, a history that feels about to erupt again. How did it happen then? What is to be done now? Notes 1. Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Screen 16...

... to contaminate the analystlmother by implanting foreign bodies, or transferring symptoms (poison). 10. The Sound of My Own Breathing The process of substitution is of course endless, but the robins come eventually, providing the sense of an ending. So let me mention one last substitution. To say...

... and perceived through the performer's body as we breathe together remembering that cancer is not a ‘battle,’ cancer is a disease. There are aberrant cells, not ‘deadly foes.’ She is not ‘combative’ and ‘brave,’ she is living with cancer. She is not going to win or lose her ‘battle.’ She is not a ‘survivor,’ she...

.... [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Camera Obscura 2024 antiheroine contemporary television motherhood abjection 67. Karlyn, Unruly Girls , 12. 68. Karlyn, Unruly Girls , 12. 69. Sue Thornham, “Breathing Spaces? The Politics...

..., with the taunting voice. Also, the sound of those five runners was really amplified. On some of it you heard slow-motion breathing and I think we used an echo effect; it was like crashing breathing. The sound at the monitor end and at the 21 runner end of the gallery was amazing. The whole place...

... we see an unhappy Jutka dropping plates on the kitchen floor. She is not marrying András, and it is up to the viewer to draw the necessary conclu- sions. The film’s title translates as “free breathing,” and Jutka is not 84  •  Camera Obscura willing to give up her “free breathing...

.... It carried her breath, which is to say it carried her mood. Sometimes it was young, flirty, with a hinting uplift before a laugh, a laugh that was several degrees more knowing than the voice that ushered it in. In Carolee's laugh, the pit of bitter fruit rattled, sometimes muffled, sometimes naked and raw...

... trip. I stutter when I try to speak to the taxi driver. He’s become somewhat of a guardian for me. I find it hard to breathe, all of a sudden. I’ve felt like this since I first stepped off of the plane in Tel Aviv. I look out of the car. Can we turn back? “We need to go,” he mutters. We’re...

... the women with the equip- ment. She begins screaming as she runs and then comes to an abrupt halt . . . She is out of breath and begins to cry. “Distortion. Let’s do it again.” Camera Obscura 82, Volume 28, Number 1 doi 10.1215/02705346-2016978 © 2013 by Camera Obscura Published...

.... The drills, which feature commands like “shake your head,” “close your eyes,” “catch your breath,” “crouch as much as you can,” “listen to your mind’s breath,” and “roll up your tail- bone,” are intended to teach the citizens self-­defense skills at a time when the government has failed to protect...

... other animals, also put us into direct confrontation with life outside its human forms, both physical and temporal: forms of breathing, of moving, sensory experiences of the world that exist at a vast remove from normative, abled human life and that necessarily elude us. By living in a world in which...

... the edges"-much like a home-movie. The camera roams freely, and we see the mother's body in intimate detail. The sound-track moves from the sounds of mother and child playing in the bath to the breathing and moaning sounds of childbirth. A visual metaphor that appears to offer...

... Denise’s desire to live in the country, and in the same breath his daughter Cicile’s passion for soccer, as “just words” (“la passion, c’estpas p”:repeated three times in the film, Paul Godard to Denise, Denise to Michel, the printer, M. Personne to Isabelle, reflecting...

..., sighing, heavy breathing and laughter. The ambiguity of these sounds is reinforced by the fact that they are not anchored by any image. They can be read as either violence or lovemaking. Raynal's presence on the screen and the implied proximity ofambiguous activity, which is indicated only...