Film Technique: A Modern Economy of Time, Body, and Soul

Juan David Cárdenas Maldonado

doi:10.5294/pacla.2019.22.2.2

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Juan David Cárdenas Maldonado Author El presente artículo es producto de la labor investigativa del autor para el centro de investigaciones (SIIU) de la Corporación Universitaria UNITEC. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8840-1412

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https://doi.org/10.5294/pacla.2019.22.2.2

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Cinema, cinematographic technique, body, attention, time, modernity

Abstract

Técnica cinematográfica: una economía moderna del tiempo, el cuerpo y el alma

Técnica cinematográfica: uma economia moderna do tempo, o corpo e a alma

From its very grounds, cinematic expressions are conditioned by the set of a priori technical decisions taken even before any shooting could take place. Film technique allows the creation of images as much as it tends to prefigure possible experimentations and social appropriations. However, this repression has remained silenced because of the naturalization of the imitative, aesthetical and social function of film. It was only in the context of the modern comprehension of time, measured by exact and equal instants by the chronometric clock, that it was possible to invent a device that divided movement in precise and homogeneous instants to be reconstructed on the screen. Resonating with these researches on movement that permitted the development of film technique, new techniques of the body to calculate human perception and attention processes also appeared. Then, the body was not only an object of technical observation in terms of movement, but also in terms of mental activity. As much as the body was understood as a machine of movement, the soul was conceived as a measurable affective system. Finally, the ultimate strategy to make a priori technical presuppositions that remain invisible would be the automation and standardization of film devices. When technique is globally unified, the circle of naturalization is closed.

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Cárdenas, J. D. (2019). Film Technique: A Modern Economy of Time, Body and Soul. Palabra Clave, 22(2), e2222. DOI: 10.5294/pacla.2019.22.2.2

Recibido: 2018-05-21

Aceptado: 2018-09-21

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Juan David Cárdenas Maldonado, El presente artículo es producto de la labor investigativa del autor para el centro de investigaciones (SIIU) de la Corporación Universitaria UNITEC.

Director de investigaciones Escuela de Artes Corporación Universitaria Unitec.

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