PT Journal
AU Vasku, P
TI Hands in the Digital Image: Tapestry Materiality in Authorial Documentary Film
SO ArteActa
PY 2024
VL 7
IS 2
DE materiality; intermediality; tapestry; digital images; experimental cinema; hand-made cinema; Craft; digital craft
AB In this exposition, I invite you to the process of research carried out in the tapestry manufactory in Valasske Mezirici. It aims to find out how to convey tapestries' craftsmanship, mediality and materiality through filming and post-production. The theme of transformation is essential: the transformation of the tapestry into a film image, but also the transformation of painting or graphics, which were the precursors of the tapestries woven in the manufactory. I am also looking for ways to use a primarily representational medium to achieve an effect of presence through materiality and corporeality. In my research, I interlace observational passages with stylized ones that emerge from a creative dialogue between the materiality of different media, artistic techniques, or post-production interventions. These methods can deepen not only the viewer's experience but also the documentary testimony and convey an almost tactile encounter with the filmed reality. Finally, based on practical experience, I distinguish working with materiality in film into three analytical cuts.Exposition in Research Cataloguehttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3161278/3161279
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