Thursday, December 5, 2019
I am also thinking a lot this week about Jorge Furtado's Isle of Flowers (1989) which, as Robert Stam states, “brings the 'garbage aesthetic' into the postmodern era, while also
demonstrating the cinema's capacity as a vehicle for political/aesthetic reflection. Rather than an aestheticisation of garbage, here garbage is both theme and formal strategy."
Here it is in full:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQcdXh9v0pA
Stam's comments can be found here
http://www7.tau.ac.il/ojs/index.php/eial/article/view/1091/1123
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Thanks for sharing, Russell! This was very insightful! Although this may be somewhat irrelevant, I see where the description says "...critic Jean-Claude Bernardet defined 'Isle of Flowers' as 'a religious film'..." The comment reminds me of a video essay I completed this summer on Moonlight as a Black religious text in an African-American Cinema class I took. I'm currently searching around for this essay by Bernardet, because ever since I read Brent Nongbri's "Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept," which problematizes certain separations between the religion and the secular, particularly how religion is inserted into ancient texts and practices (whereas no such concept--of religion--was known by some societies). I guess I'm interested in the culturally specific definition, as my video essay adopts a definition of "Black religion" informed largely by the intersection of Black and religious studies (like John Mbiti, Maulana Karenga, C. Eric Lincoln, Joseph R. Washington, etc.).
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, I guess I need to find the essay (as no reference is provided for the quote in most sites I've crossed).