Date of Submission

1-2024

Type of Work

Exegesis and Creative Work

Principal Supervisor

Dr. Teresa Rizzo

Associate Supervisor

Dr. Lola Montgomery

Second Associate Supervisor

Dr. Toby Wren

Keywords

Gaze; Cinematic Identification; Schrader, Paul; Masculinity, Film Theory, Practice-led research

Audience

Parental Guidance (PG) - mild impact language/themes

Abstract

This project takes the form of practice-led research consisting of a short experimental film and an accompanying written exegesis. Together they investigate a specific form of cinematic identification associated with the films of Paul Schrader. Schrader’s films have developed a cinematic identification that oscillates between attraction and repulsion and in doing so complicates the spectator’s identification with the main character. To understand how Schrader’s films engender this form of identification the written component conducts an analysis of the cinematic techniques employed in his films, and a literature review of research. It uses the outcome of this research to then set up a series of experiments that will form a short film work, created in collaboration with performers embodying heightened versions of themselves based on interviews derived from a close-reading of filmic texts.

Notes

The Creative Work:

The final creatiuve work is titled Man In A Room. It takes the form of a single-channel short film with three performers, who also provide voice-over narration. It was directed, shot and edited by myself with the assistance of a small crew.

Runtime: 00:14:11

Shot, directed and edited by Ingrid Dieckmann, 2023 Dieckmann.

Recommended Citation

Dieckmann, I. (2024). Man in a room: Methods of cinematic identification & repulsion in the work of Paul Schrader [Masters dissertation, SAE University College]. Creo.

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