Between Images: Montage and the Problem of Relation [Hardcover]

In the early days of moving pictures, filmmakers learned that the montage could be an effective tool to show changes in time or locale.Between Imagestakes a revolutionary look at this ubiquitous device and explores a new theory of montage. This study delves deeply into the concept of montage and focuses on the space between images as a powerful source of ideas, feelings, and forms. By bringing together a diverse group of experimental filmmakers, including Harun Farocki, Hito Steyerl, Steve McQueen, and Cauleen Smith, Da?chi Saito, and Ja'Tovia Gary, the book creates an interdisciplinary conversation about the power of cinema to effect change.In the early days of moving pictures, filmmakers learned that the montage could be an effective tool to show changes in time or locale.Casablanca's iconic travel montage is mimicked by filmmakers to this day. Since its use inRocky, the training montage has become a staple for sports films. In the 2004 filmTeam America, the song Montage is a meta explanation of the device's universal use and understanding. Its history and affects are studied and practiced by student and professional filmmakers alike. Between Imagesproposes a unique theory of montage a technique of relation: a way of rethinking and reshaping how humans relateto ourselves and each other, to the material world, to the planet and its nonhuman inhabitants. Historically, film criticism has cast editing in one of several roles: as a device of spatiotemporalcontinuityto maintain the viewer's investment in the story-world; as an agent of disorder that confounds conventions of realism to prompt the viewer'sintellectualengagement; and as an expressionistic device for augmenting the duration and combination of shots to leave asensoryimpression. While not abandoning such accounts, this book ventures closer to the heart of montage by distinguishing the space between images as itself a powerful source oflã$