Transcript Film History II 13 Anagrams for figures in Peter

Week 13 National Cinemas
Reading: Thompson & Bordwell Chapters 25 New
Cinemas and Developments Europe and the USSR
since the 1970’s; & Chapter 26 Beyond the
Industrialized West Asia Pacific, Middle East and
Africa since the 1970’s .
Hayward, Deconstruction pp 63-64.
Screening:
Vagabond (1985) Agnes Varda; The
Draughtsman’s Contract (1982) Peter
Greenaway The Cook, the Thief, His Wife
and Her Lover Peter Greenaway (1989);
Z&00’s Peter Greenaway; Romance
1998) Catherine Breillat; The Piano (1993)
Jane Campion; Dead Ringers (1986)
David Cronenberg.
An exercise in deconstructive
reading
The deconstructive process. Jacques
Derrida’s four times around (4 go-rounds)
a subject. (ref. The Truth in Painting
translation, Bennington and McLeod
1987).
Jacques Derrida 1930-2004
The ‘go’ around.
The first time (around), Derrida proposes that
the researcher become occupied with folding
the great philosophical question of the
tradition. Intervention in the philosophy that
still dominates the discourse on aesthet(h)ics
(Plato, Socrates, Kant, Spinoza, Heidegger,
Wittgenstein Levinas.et.al.)
second time around
The second time around the researcher
proceeds to negotiate, interpret (read) or
otherwise engage the question/the work
(ergon) in formal terms. Inside the frame…
In popular terms this is thinking inside the
box!
3rd g[o]-round (ground/grund)
The third time around the work (or the
subject in question) is in order to analyse
what Derrida terms the ductus (idiom of
the trait/trace as the draftsman=s
signature), and the system of duction
(production, reproduction, reduction, etc.).
For reading a film….?
This he argues, concerns “the letter and
proper name in painting” (film,
architecture, ethics); “with narration,
technical reproduction, ideology, the
phoneme, the biographeme, and politics
among other things.”
This engages the authorship question,
properly situated in its socio-historical,
political and economic contexts. The
parergon --- thinking outside the box!!
4th go around
The fourth time around Derrida “weaves all
these threads through a polylogue of N + 1
voices which happens to be that of a
woman.” That is, reinforcing hybridity and
intellectual ‘cross-dressing.’
sous rature
And finally submitting the research to the
imprimatur of sous rature (under erasure),
to suspend or prevent premature closure
of the investigation.
implications
Is Derrida asking us to become….:
Philosophers? Mathematicians?
Historians/ art historians?
Social historians?
Sociologists?
Social anthropologists?
Political economists ?
Exercise #1 Anagrams for figures
in Peter Greenaway’s Z&00
Anagram, noun: a word or phrase formed
by rearranging the letters of another word
or phrase. For example, Elvis to Lives.
verb tr., intr. To rearrange letters in such a
way. To anagrammatize.
[from Latin anagramma, origin in Greek
anagrammatismos, ana- (up, again, back,
new) + -gram (letter).]
Oliver Deuce
Among the 1000 plus anagrams for Oliver Deuce
1) evildoer cue
2) receive loud
3) decile ouvre
4) reduce olive
5) revile douce
6) cloud ere vie
7) cloud ere wie
8) cloud eve ire
9) cloud ire wee
10) clove die rue
11) clove due ire
12) could ere Ive
13) could ere vie
14) could eve Ire
15) could ire vee
16) cover due lie
17) crude eve oil
18) crude oil vee
Oswald Deuce
Among theanagrams for Oswald Deuce are the
following:
1) coal deus dew
2) cloud sea wed
3) deuce low sad
4) aloud dew sec
5) cease dud owl
6) cause dew old
7) cause old wed
8) cease dud low
9) cease dud owl
10) close awe dud
11) close due wad
Alba Bewick
Alba (Alpha) Bewick- A/B; A+B - daughter
called Beta Her first name Alba which in
Italian translates as Dawn; Alb from Albatus
(L) = white, is a white vestment used by
Catholic priests and also forms the first
letters of Albatross. Alba’s surname Bewick
corresponds to the name of a rare type of
swan that migrates from Siberia to England.
There are also several hundred anagrams for
Alba Bewick, among the most interesting are
Bewail Back; Bike Abc Law and Bike Cab
Law. Bewick as a homophone for Buick
Venus de Milo
1) ed line ovum
3) ed unveils om
5) ed evil om nus
7) livened sumo
9) seed ni ovum
11) die oven slum
13) devil me on us
15) devil menu so
17) Lived muse no
19) Mined ovules
2) linseed ovum
4) ed evil om sun
6) ed evil oms nu
8) livened muso
10) die lens ovum
12) idle oven sum
14) devil omen us
16) devil one mus
18) dime novel us
20 deism love nu
Van Hoyten
1) havent yon
3) envoy than
5) ah envy not
7) novena thy
9) van eh tony
11) van hey ton
2) envoy tanh
4) haven tony
6) ant envy ho
8) tan envy oh
10) van he tony
12) navy he not
Stourley Kracklite
Stourley Kracklite, among them, these interesting
examples:
1) illustrate cork key 2 ) illustrate rock key
3) lackluster riot key 4 ) lackluster tori key
5) lackluster trio key 6 ) lackluster yore kit
7) literature lock sky 8 ) artillery coke tusk
9) correlate sulky kit
Mercury
Buick
Leonardo Da Vinci's Leda and the swan
Zebra stripes
Tiger stripes
Bridget Riley
Daniel Buren
Multi-stable images
Young woman with a long neck or an old
lady with a big nose?
‘Siamese’ Twins
Ipson Fallari
Ipson Fallari renders the following anagrams
from a possible 2000
1) on a fair spill 2) fails or plain
3) so plain flair
4) flails or pain
5) liars of plain
6) fair as in poll
7) lisp on a flair 8) so frail plain
9) flail on pairs
10) pair on flails
11) slip on a flair 12) spiral on fail
Pulat Fallari
Pulat Fallari anagrams
1) up a tall flair
2) full partial
3) i fatal plural
4) fail ultra pal
5) air fatal pull
6) fault all pair
7) pull a fat liar
Castor and Pollux
Jeremy Irons as Beverly Mantle in
Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers 1988
Van Meegeren (spelling 1)
1) Mean revenge
2) a genre men rev
3) a green men rev
4) Germane nerve
5) rage never men
6) rage nerve men
7) an genre ever
Van Meergeren 2
If spelled with an “r” Van Meergeren anagrams
1) evergreen man
2) germane nerve
3) germane never
4) revenge reman
5) avenge err men
6) garner eve men
7) garner men vee
8) genera men rev
9) graven ere men
10) revere men nag
11) veneer erg man 12) veneer gem ran
13) veneer men rag 14) anger veer men
15) genre amen rev 16) genre aver men
17) genre even arm
Vermeer’s Girl with a Red Hat (1665)
Velasquez, Las Meninas (Maids of Honour)
Van Eyck
Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride (1434)
Venus de Milo as Duchamp’s Nude
Descending a Staircase
Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a
Staircase 1912
Marcel Duchamp’s The Large Glass
Oswald Deuce’s Apartment
Robert Wilson and Phillip Glass Einstein on
the Beach
Dan Flavin Untitled Fluorescent Light
Vermeer’s Lute Player at the Window (1664)
Vermeer's The Art of Painting
Vermeer’s The Soldier and the Laughing Girl
Vermeer's Music Lesson
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