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Article: The camera blinks: David Salle on The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- February 1, 2008
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EVEN BEFORE CITIZEN KANE (1941), Orson Welles was already experimenting with using film techniques to heighten audience awareness of the special relationship between the teller and the tale that is fundamental to movies. In a little-known precursor to that film titled Too Much Johnson (1938), Welles made inventive use of a handheld camera to expose the phenomenological conundrum at the heart of moviemaking: How do you make an audience aware of the artificiality of cinematic reality and still keep them emotionally connected to the story? In the great leap that was Citizen Kane, Welles explored using the camera and its naturally unstable point of view to heighten awareness ...
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Article: 'The Diving Bell': An Awakening Beyond Words
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December 21, 2007 ;
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... ... powerful film of the season, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" is essential viewing ... letter. The resulting book, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," was published ... Mathieu Amalric, is locked in, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" is anything but ...
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