Notes on a New Cinema with Eugene Kotlyarenko
Me and Eugene share ideas on desktop cinema, machinima, scrolling as montage and extreme audiovisual forms
As a young researcher in the audiovisual field, I like identifying people who I think are doing something to push cinema forward, to change and subvert languages so that films continue to address current times without ever getting too detached from reality. Eugene Kotlyarenko is, for me, one of these - using the words that Werner Herzog used to describe an underground-then-now-famous director - “last foot soldiers in the army”.
Eugene has some interesting ideas that he calls the “New (x3) Theories on Cinema”. They give an idea of how film language might evolve to align with the contemporary mind. Some of them are:
Image never free of text
Simultaneous presentation of multiple images for dialectical viewing
Schizoid tonal shifts
Freely changing aspect ratio
Scrolling as montage
Disconnect sound & image
New avenues for voyeurismo/gaze
Multiple takes reveal performance
We discussed about films which already seem to move towards this direction, about experimental cinema, about our virtual paranoia (and let me tell you, Eugene might have some a solution in the form of an App for you…) and about how we can prevent cinema to become something that’s too far away from people’s lives.
You can listen to the whole episode on Eugene’s Podcast Director’s Commentary here!
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