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The Object-oriented Cinema

Summary/Abstract: The author investigates the recent phenomenon of object-oriented cinema. Interpreting the films of Quentin Dupieux and Peter Strickland, he focuses primarily on the key category of speculative realism that is allure, and distinguishes it from sensual seduction, which is most often confused with. Then, referring to the Jane Bennett theory of vitalist materialism and her concept of thing-power, he asks about the agency of objects and why it is so difficult for us to imagine it. He presents the passive-active nature of agency of Bennett on the example of the latest film by James Benning, Maggie’s Farm (2019). The author proves that aesthetics and rhetoric in object-oriented cinema are not superficial ornaments, but on the contrary allow individual filmmakers to look at objects in a different way.

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