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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 187–193.
Published: 01 September 2016
...? Notions of imperceptibility, proliferation, accumulation, and nonfilial progeny are each explored to advance a politics that can respond to contemporary critical theory and materiality. Imperceptibility explores the ways in which plastic influences the world without being influenced in turn. Proliferation...
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Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 1. Becoming-imperceptible: Visages Villages ( Faces Places , dir. Agnès Varda and JR, France, 2017) and Varda by Agnès ( Varda par Agnès , dir. Agnès Varda, France, 2019) More
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 33–63.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., the invisible, ubiquitous element of air has been wholly ignored as a medium for ideas. Yet despite being challenging to read, air gains power because of its relative invisibility, and after being transmuted by breathing into a legible cinematic sign, it marks sites where otherwise imperceptible ideas become...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 149–153.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of the female body's objectification and also a catalyst for collectivization. Heather Davis argues that plastic is an opaque queerness, and Nathan Lee writes on the condition of being HIV undetectable as an optimistic imperceptible relationship to one's body. Across these texts, opacity operates...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 61–85.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Figure 1. Becoming-imperceptible: Visages Villages ( Faces Places , dir. Agnès Varda and JR, France, 2017) and Varda by Agnès ( Varda par Agnès , dir. Agnès Varda, France, 2019) ...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 167–173.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of the pond, are neither plants nor fish, they contain yet more of them, though of a subtleness imperceptible to us, most often. Thus there is nothing fallow, sterile, or dead in the universe, no chaos and no confusion except in appearance, almost like it looks in a pond at a distance, where we might...
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Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 28–59.
Published: 01 September 1983
.... For example, at the beginning of Nostos 1, on the screen which has changed imperceptibly from blue to white, a form appears, hardly visible, indistinct, and moves upward, disappearing and reappearing all the 35 while, like the beating of a wing perceived, then lost against the sky: soon we realize...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 59–67.
Published: 01 December 2022
... helped us suggest—imperceptibly, we thought—an alteration in the era's voltage: to put across, as if it were gliding by, the idea of death. 8 The choice of document and of this process of rapprochement, of which we find many other applications throughout the film, is of course totally subjective...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 206–215.
Published: 01 September 1990
... the registers of language, imperceptible to the European spectator, clearly establish who is speaking for the Japanese spectator, to whom this correspondence is initially supposed to be addressed. Two lives are also sketched out here, and through them two styles, two modes...
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Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (2 (5)): 100–110.
Published: 01 September 1980
.... But we have forgotten the context. Throughout Thriller Laffont slips imperceptibly from role to role. She is Mimi the investigator examining her own death, Mimi the object of the first Mimi’s inquiry, and Musetta “the bad girl, the one who didn’t die And perhaps there is yet another Laffont...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (1 (58)): 1–31.
Published: 01 May 2005
... grudg- ingly concede the necessity of the latter for women as a social group. It is hard to see any common ground between suppos- edly molar feminism, which aims at the visible self-defi nition of a social group, and becoming-woman, conceived as a preliminary to “becoming-imperceptible.” Moreover...
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Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 3–17.
Published: 01 December 1984
.... What becomes evident is how easily work like Almy’s latest high-tech pieces can move across the often imperceptible boundary between commercial TV and video art. The Early Work In Almy ’s earlier, multi-monitor performance pieces, and particularly her Modern...
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Camera Obscura (1976) 1 (1 (1)): 27–38.
Published: 01 May 1976
... angle emphasizes the box-likespace by reinforcing the perspectival lines. Spatial parameters are designated by the displacement of what would convention- allybe seen assignificant movement. First, in the extreme left corner at the back of the room, an almost imperceptible figure...
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Camera Obscura (1977) 1 (2 (2)): 93–104.
Published: 01 September 1977
...- tion which, in sustaining the cinema-effect, does, in the most invisible and imperceptible way, support the work of enunciation. In fact, it is the necessary condition of enunciation. It is therefore not surprising that when it is exposed, as in the films of Vertov or those...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 35–75.
Published: 01 December 2023
... used by their creators, many of whom were entomologists, botanists, and natural philosophers, to emphasize color's ephemerality. The diagrams acknowledged the infinite number of intermediate colors imperceptible to the human eye. 10 Looping configurations such as Goethe's watercolor color wheel from...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 1–41.
Published: 01 May 2007
... is present. Once she refuses by uttering an almost imperceptible “no,” her husband departs, and Ahoo appears to regain her drive, begins to pedal harder, pulls ahead, and takes command of the image as she rides through the landscape in a highly mobile one-shot. Her feeling of liberation is expressed...
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Camera Obscura (1982) 3-4 (2-3-1 (8-9-10)): 192–209.
Published: 01 December 1982
... result of his ambient noise levels and continuous sense of acoustic environment is that it is impossible to slip in and out ofa sound take imperceptibly. Where sound begins, one knows it. (A contempo- rary television equivalent may be found in the highly layered sound- artificially produced...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 69–87.
Published: 01 May 2008
... the applause, though, when the veil between pretend agonies and real-life ago- nies is stretched so thin as to be almost imperceptible? We love best the moments when what we know about the diva’s personal life deepens her performance: Judy Garland singing “The Man That Got Away,” Natalie Wood...
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 226–242.
Published: 01 May 1997
... transference of the imperceptible radiation onto the conspicuous carnosaur. The film evokes fears of uncontainable radiation and nuclear holocaust only to contain them in the dinosaur, using the prehistoric metonym of extinc- tion to veil the contemporary threat of apocalypse. Though it is absurd...
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Camera Obscura (1977) 1 (2 (2)): 67–92.
Published: 01 September 1977
... the more imaginary, body. But then, almost right away, the camera, progressively, imperceptibly, begins to immobilize itself, sanc- tioning this separation without detracting from the almost excessive regu- larity of the walk: the time it takes to end a shot of a long duration...