Visions and Enchantment
Magical Practices of the Film Form
Keywords:
Film dispositif and perception, Cinema and spiritualism, Rituality and spectatorial tranceAbstract
Since its origins, cinema has been interpreted through a lexicon that evokes magic and spiritualism, both in relation to its technical properties and to the perceptual and symbolic conditions of viewing. Building on these premises, and through a series of theoretical and filmic elaborations, this contribution explores cinema as a dispositif capable of producing liminal and transformative experiences, in which viewing is configured as a shared ritual experience.
References
M. Leeder, The Modern supernatural and the beginnings of cinema, Palgrave Macmillan, London 2017.
A. Artaud, Sorcellerie et cinéma, Œuvres complètes, vol. III, Gallimard, Paris 1970.
P. Taberham, Style, Structure and Allusion in Lucifer Rising, in “Open Screens”, vol. 2, n. 1 (2009).
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