Following in the footsteps of Deleuze, after classic-cinema’s moving image and modern cinema’s time-image, the author attempts to lay down the criteria for the absence-image of post-modern cinema. A vacuum that leads to the absence of meaning, and to the cessation of feeling. A tug-ofwar between the material and the spiritual world that summons bodies and ghosts at the same time.
This concept was illustrated in the most radical films of the time (Gus van Sant, Tsai Ming-liang, Claire Denis) and surprisingly, in commercial films (M. Night Shyamalan, Jared Hess). Both are polarized extremities, yet they both lead to extreme cinema
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