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Record Nr.

UNINA9910245737403321

Autore

Lafia Marc <1955->

Titolo

Everyday Cinema: The Films of Marc Lafia / [Marc Lafia]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brooklyn, NY, : punctum books, 2017

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2020

©2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s)

Disciplina

791.4302/3092

Soggetti

Film theory & criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Films. Exploding Oedipus -- Confessions of an image -- Permutations -- Talk show -- Harry, Zelda and Antoinette -- Love and art -- My double my self -- Paradise -- Revolution of everyday life -- Hi, how are you guest 10497 -- Twenty-seven -- Interviews. Jisu Song (TriBeCa Film Institute) -- Peter Duhon (Anthology Film Archives) -- Kevin Farrington (Mubi) -- Daniel Coffeen (The Aesthetes) -- Lior Rosenfeld (191).

Sommario/riassunto

Everyday Cinema presents the films (eight features and numerous shorts, computational, and installation films) of Marc Lafia. In his many films (including Exploding Oedipus; Love and Art; Confessions of an Image; Revolution of Everyday Life; Paradise; Hi, How Are You Guest 10497; and 27) Lafia probes what it is to construct an image, to forge systems of representation, to see and represent ourselves. His work has been defined as a cinema of emergence, a cinema of the event, in which the very act of ubiquitous recording creates something new.Everyday Cinema is comprised of two parts, the first an in-depth look at his films and installations, project by project, providing background on how they came about, Lafia's process and ideas. The second part features selected interviews and over two hundred film stills wherein Lafia puts forward a new sense of the possibility of the cinema. As we all relentlessly record ourselves and are recorded, we become part of



the cinematic fabric of life, part of a spectacle of which we are both constituent and constitutive. This is what Lafia sets out to capture and examine.With a Preface by Daniel Coffeen.