{"title":"The rhythms and the dualist character of space in Marco Calvani’s The View from Up Here","authors":"Taher Abdel Ghani","doi":"10.1386/sfs_00104_1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article poses a critical question regarding the concept of everyday life: can everydayness be a source of conflict? It spotlights an overlapping framework of J. Ann Tickner’s notion of the realist and its perception of threat against all that is foreign and Hannah Arendt’s portrait of loneliness and isolation as the common ground for terror. Reinforcing this framework, the article focuses on Marco Calvani’s short film The View from Up Here, which uses space as a foregrounded character embodying an existential dualism of realism and otherism, expressed through the protagonists of Claire and Lila respectively.","PeriodicalId":40193,"journal":{"name":"Short Film Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Short Film Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1386/sfs_00104_1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This article poses a critical question regarding the concept of everyday life: can everydayness be a source of conflict? It spotlights an overlapping framework of J. Ann Tickner’s notion of the realist and its perception of threat against all that is foreign and Hannah Arendt’s portrait of loneliness and isolation as the common ground for terror. Reinforcing this framework, the article focuses on Marco Calvani’s short film The View from Up Here, which uses space as a foregrounded character embodying an existential dualism of realism and otherism, expressed through the protagonists of Claire and Lila respectively.
本文就日常生活的概念提出了一个关键问题:日常生活会成为冲突的根源吗?安-蒂克纳(J. Ann Tickner)的现实主义概念及其对所有外来事物的威胁感,以及汉娜-阿伦特(Hannah Arendt)将孤独和孤立描绘成恐怖的共同根源,这两个概念的框架相互重叠。为了加强这一框架,文章重点讨论了马尔科-卡尔瓦尼的短片《从这里看风景》,该片将空间作为一个前景人物,体现了现实主义和他者主义的存在主义二元论,分别通过主人公克莱尔和莱拉表现出来。
期刊介绍:
The main purposes of SFS are: To stimulate ongoing research on individual short films as a basis for a better understanding of the art form To provide a flow of cutting-edge teaching materials that can be used in courses in which short films are either studied or produced, at film schools or universities To offer fresh inspiration to filmmakers and other professionals working with short films in connection with festivals, national film institutes, regional film centres, etc. While the principal focus is on the short fiction film, other classic forms – such as the short documentary, the short experimental film and the short animation film – are also covered from time to time. In each issue, two productions are singled out for comprehensive presentation and close study. For each film, the reader will find production data, an interview with the director, a shot-by-shot breakdown of the film with a still illustrating every shot, a number of peer-reviewed articles that illuminate the film from a variety of perspectives and a link enabling subscribers to view the film.