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  Re: The Audiovisual Essay: My Favorite Things

  The Role of Montage

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  Cristina Álvarez López Goethe Universität

  Saturday, September 20, 2014 — 1:02 pm

  Thanks, Katie, for your wonderful introduction and for the variety of videos curated here which, I think, gives a very exciting view of the possibilities and many different approaches that audiovisual essay can take/adopt. I feel your comment in your last ...
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  Re: The Poetics of the Explanatory Audiovisual Essay

  Ethics and Transformation

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  Cristina Álvarez López Goethe Universität

  Friday, September 19, 2014 — 6:25 pm

  As a self-punishment for my overlong previous comment, I will offer only a very brief observation. As Kevin, I think that the question of ethics posed by Ian is an important one that every maker should face at some point. I think it’s essential to pose ou ...
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  Re: From Idea to Concept

  The Research Process

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  Cristina Álvarez López Goethe Universität

  Friday, September 19, 2014 — 4:24 pm

  Thanks Ian and Christian, happy to hear that you found this exercise an interesting one to propose to your students. First, allow me to clarify something: what we proposed in class was a work of condensation of one idea/aspect of the films; then it was He ...
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  Re: The Inward/Outward Turn

  On DOLCE FAR NIENTE

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  Cristina Álvarez López Goethe Universität

  Saturday, September 20, 2014 — 1:05 pm

  One thing that I admire in Timo’s DOLCE FAR NIENTE is how he has managed to wrap, in one single piece, two films that are, in many aspects, very different (beginning with the tone and genre, extremely dramatic in one case, very comedic in the other). The ...
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  Re: The Inward/Outward Turn

  On WHERE I COME FROM, WHERE I'M GOING

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  Cristina Álvarez López Goethe Universität

  Saturday, September 20, 2014 — 1:22 pm

  One of the things I like most about WHERE I COME FROM, WHERE I’M GOING is the sense of being driven through a lifelong journey. I think this is one of the examples that corroborates well something I wrote some time ago: that the Internet, the acesss to fi ...
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  Re: The Audiovisual Research Essay as an Alternative to Text-Based Scholarship

  Prior Knowledge

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  Cristina Álvarez López Goethe Universität

  Friday, September 19, 2014 — 6:58 pm

  The point made by Ian is not contentious for me, I quite agree with it. As a general rule, I would say that prior knowledge of the materials always enriches the viewing and appreciation of any audiovisual essay, because it makes you more aware of the tran ...