Profile – Alain Robbe-Grillet
moebius narrative structure
foregrounding the act of narration
photographic falsehood
Profile - Miklos Jancso
camera musicality
orchestration of space & bodies
Profile - Jean-Marie Straub
textual compression & cycles
political demythologization
anti-texts
Profile - Marguerite Duras
happening & not-happening
action & description
narrative threads
Profile - Stan Brakhage
pictorial depiction
narrative abstraction
considerations on viewing
Profile - Rainer Fassbinder
plasticity
art direction / production design / set decoration
mise-en-scene
Profile - Vitaly Kanevsky
oral history & folk music
biography & memory
Profile - Chantal Ackerman
documentary timing
actor/camera intersection
Documentary form
fact & fiction
Space between film & viewer
rupture types
rupture intentions
intentional rupture
Expression & statement
auteurism
cultural validity
the self
Terms & definitions
renegade cinema
brute narratives
illogicality
exploitation
Paul Morrissey & the Warhol factory
Morrissey's performers
performance & narrative
Rape/revenge thematic presence
historical developments
ideology
Video clips versus the cinema
death of the Hollywood musical
developments in choreography
developments in montage;
narrative fracture
Symbolic codes
semiotics/semiology in the cinema
saturation