Saige Walton
Biographic Data
| ID | 4246350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saige Walton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saige |
| FAMILY NAME | Walton |
| SIGNATURE | WALTON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5213-2484 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Imagining the Elements with Gaston Bachelard and Claire Denis
Adapted from philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy’s semi-autobiographical text, The Intruder remains one of French director Claire Denis’ most transnational and yet dreamlike works. In this article, I pair philosopher Gaston Bachelard (in particular, his concept of the material and dynamic imagination and his reveries on water and air) with Denis to explore how The Intruder enacts an imagining of the elements and an elemental poetics of film form. Bringing…
Poetic Objects
This article draws on the interrelated concepts of reverie and repose in Gaston Bachelard's philosophy to approach Claire Denis' poetic foregrounding of objects in 35 Shots of Rum ( 35 Rhums, 2008). Connecting Bachelard's work on time to his later studies of the imagination, I demonstrate how the poetic time of reverie and repose are essential to Bachelard's thinking. Focusing on three especially charged objects (trains, rice cookers and lanterns…
Sleeping away the Factory, Healing with Time
Gaston Bachelard distinguishes the radical novelty and newness of the imagination from pre-existing sensory impressions (memory, perception). In this article, I explore Bachelard's connections between time, the imagined image and poetic form, and I consider their implications for the cinema. Concentrating my analysis on Ildikó Enyedi's Testről és lélekről/ On Body and Soul (2017) - a film that alternates between doubled worlds, depictions of huma…
Cinema's Baroque Flesh
Film and/as Devotion
I am trying to be a filmmaker [... ] I despise the religious, the clerical. I think that there is something profound in human beings, something mysterious, bound to the sacred. The sacred is also in the profane [... ]Bruno DumontFrom the wide-screen environs of Bailleul that open upon and dwarf the tiny human in L'Humanite (Humanity, 1999) to the recurrence of the vast, impassive California desert in Twentynine Palms (2003) or the windswept expan…
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Film and/as Devotion
I am trying to be a filmmaker [... ] I despise the religious, the clerical. I think that there is something profound in human beings, something mysterious, bound to the sacred. The sacred is also in the profane [... ]Bruno DumontFrom the wide-screen environs of Bailleul that open upon and dwarf the tiny human in L'Humanite (Humanity, 1999) to the recurrence of the vast, impassive California desert in Twentynine Palms (2003) or the windswept expan…
Cinema's Baroque Flesh
Sleeping away the Factory, Healing with Time
Gaston Bachelard distinguishes the radical novelty and newness of the imagination from pre-existing sensory impressions (memory, perception). In this article, I explore Bachelard's connections between time, the imagined image and poetic form, and I consider their implications for the cinema. Concentrating my analysis on Ildikó Enyedi's Testről és lélekről/ On Body and Soul (2017) - a film that alternates between doubled worlds, depictions of huma…
Imagining the Elements with Gaston Bachelard and Claire Denis
Adapted from philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy’s semi-autobiographical text, The Intruder remains one of French director Claire Denis’ most transnational and yet dreamlike works. In this article, I pair philosopher Gaston Bachelard (in particular, his concept of the material and dynamic imagination and his reveries on water and air) with Denis to explore how The Intruder enacts an imagining of the elements and an elemental poetics of film form. Bringing…
Poetic Objects
This article draws on the interrelated concepts of reverie and repose in Gaston Bachelard's philosophy to approach Claire Denis' poetic foregrounding of objects in 35 Shots of Rum ( 35 Rhums, 2008). Connecting Bachelard's work on time to his later studies of the imagination, I demonstrate how the poetic time of reverie and repose are essential to Bachelard's thinking. Focusing on three especially charged objects (trains, rice cookers and lanterns…
Art (4 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Poetry (3 works) · Visual Culture and Art Theory (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Foregrounding (2 works)