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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