An illustrated guide to lighthouse spotting : slow cinema and its implications for a documentary film practice / Mike Hannon.
By: Hannon, Mike [author.].
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BookSeries: MA - Fine Art & Applied Art.Publisher: Cork : Crawford College of Art and Design, 2016Description: 76 pages ; 30 cm.Content type: text | two-dimensional moving image Media type: unmediated | video Carrier type: volume | videodiscSubject(s): Lighthouses -- Ireland | Documentary films -- Production and direction
| Motion pictures -- Production and direction | Motion pictures -- AestheticsDDC classification: CCAD LIBRARY OFFICE Dissertation note: MA Summary: "An illustrated guide to lighthouse spotting is a short documentary that loosely addresses the idea that, due to recent technological and economic developments, Irish lighthouse face an uncertain future with regard to the continued viability of the familiar sweeping beam of light. The film follows a group of lighthouse spotters over the course of an eight day package tour of the Irish coast. This thesis examines the film as an experimental exercise in formal reflexivity, in which conventions normally associated with various modes of documentary are consciously investigated with regard to their potency in advancing or negating senses of rhetorical development, drama and realism. This investigation is positioned as occurring within the aesthetic boundaries staked established by slow cinema, a recent trend in international fiction film making that is concerned with protracted temporality. The thesis identifies three characteristics that distinguish the slow cinema film from other forms of fictional film practice: a hyper-extension of duration, an emphasis on undramaticness, and an affinity with reality. These have been articulated by writers on slow cinema in terms that are derived from theory and practice associated with the fiction film. Therefore, in order to contextualise my film as slow cinema, each of these characteristics is translated, transposed or otherwise analogised in terms that are appropriate to documentary. Thusly, a destabilisation of narrative in fiction is understood as a destabilisation of rhetoric in the slow documentary; undramatic characterisation and the absence of crisis as a decentering of anthropocentric bias, and an affinity with reality is reconfigured in terms of a hybrid documentary-fictionality, under which slow documentary is configured bearing an affinity with imaginary reality. The manner in which An Illustrated Guide to Lighthouse Spotting formally manifests these characteristics is examined, and the implications for ethical and epistemologtical concerns associated with documentary film are discussed". - (Author's abstract)
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"An illustrated guide to lighthouse spotting is a short documentary that loosely addresses the idea that, due to recent technological and economic developments, Irish lighthouse face an uncertain future with regard to the continued viability of the familiar sweeping beam of light. The film follows a group of lighthouse spotters over the course of an eight day package tour of the Irish coast. This thesis examines the film as an experimental exercise in formal reflexivity, in which conventions normally associated with various modes of documentary are consciously investigated with regard to their potency in advancing or negating senses of rhetorical development, drama and realism. This investigation is positioned as occurring within the aesthetic boundaries staked established by slow cinema, a recent trend in international fiction film making that is concerned with protracted temporality. The thesis identifies three characteristics that distinguish the slow cinema film from other forms of fictional film practice: a hyper-extension of duration, an emphasis on undramaticness, and an affinity with reality. These have been articulated by writers on slow cinema in terms that are derived from theory and practice associated with the fiction film. Therefore, in order to contextualise my film as slow cinema, each of these characteristics is translated, transposed or otherwise analogised in terms that are appropriate to documentary. Thusly, a destabilisation of narrative in fiction is understood as a destabilisation of rhetoric in the slow documentary; undramatic characterisation and the absence of crisis as a decentering of anthropocentric bias, and an affinity with reality is reconfigured in terms of a hybrid documentary-fictionality, under which slow documentary is configured bearing an affinity with imaginary reality. The manner in which An Illustrated Guide to Lighthouse Spotting formally manifests these characteristics is examined, and the implications for ethical and epistemologtical concerns associated with documentary film are discussed". - (Author's abstract)