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MEMORY AS A METHOD FOR FILMMAKING
I used the filmmaking apparatus as a technique to give visibility to the process of remembering and forgetting: I worked with strategies such as the elaboration of a “memory diary”; the drawing of spoken portraits and locations based on memories; casting techniques which involved a dialectical approach towards memory; scouting trips to find places from my memory; hypnosis sessions as a technique to recover lost memories; reenactments of memories; a method to direct actors that relied on memory as a guiding mechanism; and the editing of the footage through a process of memory associations.
While doing this research, I inadvertently found that the techniques I used led to a process in which memories were rewritten through experimentation. Thus, the method produced a conceptualization of "memory" that frames it as a creative process. In the process of working on this project, I developed a very subjective approach to the craft of filmmaking that was informed by my particular relationship with memory. Thus, the proposed method of using personal memory as a core mechanism for the production of audio-visual products can be utilized as a tool for film education, promoting the creation of personal film languages based on an individual's memory, and as device to reflect on the subjective process behind an individual's artistic practice.
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artistic research education emilio bassail experimental film filmmaking forgetting memory methodology narrative remembering research time applied fine performing arts issue 19 jar - journal for artistic research
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Applied Fine Performing Arts - JAR - Journal for Artistic Research - Issue 19 Applied Fine Performing Arts - JAR - Journal for Artistic Research Applied Fine Performing Arts catalog - mediathek catalog - network catalog - Artists catalog - HGK catalog - HGKplus
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- AccessDate
- 2021-04-14T12:32:48Z
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.648128
- DateAdded
- 2021-04-22T13:15:29Z
- DateModified
- 2021-08-10T11:55:50Z
- Issue
- 19
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- CHXA73KM
- Language
- en
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- Journal for Artistic Research
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- Open Closed