The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay Film (Nonfictions)
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The Personal Camera is an exploration of an elusive but more and more compelling field: essayistic cinema. The essay film together with its cognate formsthe diary the travelogue the notebook and the self-portraitis cinema in the first person. It is a cinema of thought of investigation and self-reflection in which the filmmaker instead of withdrawing behind the camera comes out into the open to say I to take responsibility and to address and engage with the spectator within a shared space of embodied subjectivity. Authorial experimental and radical essayistic cinema belongs within the lineage of avant-garde and political filmmaking and responds above all to the need we feel today for more contingent autobiographical private forms of expression. This study provides a unique insight into an intricate but fascinating field by engaging with the work of directors such as Jean-Luc Godard Chris Marker Harun Farocki Pier Paolo Pasolini Alexander Sokurov Michelangelo Antonioni Derek Jarman Federico Fellini Wim Wenders Jonas Mekas and Agns Varda.
