La phénoménologie de la perception mélancolique. La mélancolie sentie dans le cinéma-corps
The phenomenology of melancholic perception. Melancholy felt in the cinema-body
Author(s): Melisa MărcușSubject(s): Philosophy, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Metaphysics, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Facultatea de Teatru si Televiziune
Keywords: cinema; body; perception; Melancholia; Solaris; melancholy; phenomenology; reflections; solitude; absence;
Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses melancholy as an existential solitude that is acknowledged and amplified through the cinematic experience. In order to prove that this feeling is not only a psychological distress, but it is mainly perceived through the manifestations of the body and, paradoxically, through interaction rather that isolation, we will rely on the strong connection between phenomenology and the cinematic perception, as highlighted by film theorists and by philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, but also on some of the ideas belonging to existential philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre that we have thought suitable for the analysis of two melancholy-toned films: Melancholia (2011), directed by Lars von Trier and Solaris (1972), by Andrei Tarkovsky.
Journal: Ekphrasis. Images, Cinema, Theory, Media
- Issue Year: 21/2019
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 59-69
- Page Count: 10
- Language: French