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Look up - exploring grief, landscape and time through film

Banks, Liz

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Exploring the spatial and temporal issues of grief, this presentation will consist of a screening of ‘Look Up’ , my short film (2012, 5.04 min) and a paper exploring the processes of interdisciplinary research with a focus on the visualization, in film, of space, time and the body. The paper will suggest that during times of grief our relationship with space and time shifts – sometimes quite radically, but often rather imperceptibly - and we experience a different type of embodiment within the everyday. During this suspended state memories mix with dreamtime to create a less linear temporality, allowing us space for grieving and – on occasion - spiritual uplift. Taking a phenomenological approach, I argue this experience is not purely mental, but is felt, sensed and ‘interactive’. The film attempts to demonstrate this ‘being’. The film is not only a visual and aural interpretation of the grief experience, but also the outcome of a period of study on the representation of a particular landscape. Through a reflection on the very making of the film, I will look at how landscape, with its potentiality for evoking nostalgia and specific moments of recall, can serve as a mirror for the process of grieving. Deconstructing the image and narrative form, I will discuss my choice of aesthetic, mis-en-scene and installation space with the overall aim of immersing the audience in the temporal dimension of loss and grief. Through engagement with the audience I am keen to record and document the audience’s engagement and responses with the film.

Citation

Banks, L. (2013, September). Look up - exploring grief, landscape and time through film. Paper presented at 2nd global conference - Time, space and the body, Mansfield College, Oxford University

Presentation Conference Type Conference Paper (unpublished)
Conference Name 2nd global conference - Time, space and the body
Conference Location Mansfield College, Oxford University.
Start Date Sep 1, 2013
End Date Sep 3, 2013
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Keywords film philosophy, phenomenology, grief, landscape, time, space and the body
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/928061
Additional Information Title of Conference or Conference Proceedings : 2nd global conference - Time, space and the body

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