{"634560":{"#nid":"634560","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Scratching the Surface: Handmade Cinema in the Digital Age","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/zinman\u0022\u003EGregory Zinman\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the School of Literature, Media and Communication, had his book\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMaking Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ementioned in the article \u0026quot;Scratching the Surface: Handmade Cinema in the Digital Age\u0026quot; in the Los Angeles Review of Books on April 17, 2020.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZinman\u0026#39;s book, which was published earlier this year, explores the practice of filmmakers creating expressive visual sequences by physically altering the film. In the article, author Holly Willis uses it as a gateway\u0026nbsp;for exploring these aspects of filmmaking.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo explore the history of handmade filmmaking in more detail, I turn to Gregory Zinman\u0026rsquo;s brand-new book\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMaking Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts\u003C\/em\u003E, which echoes the title of Christopher Horak\u0026rsquo;s 1997 book,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMaking Images Move\u003C\/em\u003E, an analysis of work of photographers who venture into the realm of filmmaking. Zinman, a faculty member in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in some ways continues Horak\u0026rsquo;s exploration of the boundaries that only ostensibly separate media forms by chronicling a rich, 100-year history of handmade moviemaking in which artists similarly trespass into other areas of creative practice.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWritten with careful precision and breadth, the book opens on the extraordinary 75-minute film by Spanish filmmaker Jos\u0026eacute; Antonio Sistiaga titled\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Eere erera balebu izik subua aruaren\u003C\/em\u003E. Sistiaga could not afford to shoot and process footage to create a traditional film, so he instead spent two years \u0026mdash; between 1968 and 1970 \u0026mdash; painting and drawing on transparent film by hand. In some cases he painted frame by frame, and in others he crafted sequences across sections of film. The result is a dazzling explosion of color and texture which, according to Zinman, \u0026ldquo;is almost too much to process.\u0026rdquo; He writes, \u0026ldquo;Sistiaga uses cinematic spectacle to overwhelm the viewer\u0026rsquo;s senses, to bring us in and out of our minds.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/scratching-the-surface-handmade-cinema-in-the-digital-age\/\u0022\u003ERead the full article here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2020-04-20 17:44:44","changed_gmt":"2020-04-20 17:44:44","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Station F","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/scratching-the-surface-handmade-cinema-in-the-digital-age\/","dateline":{"date":"2020-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"405981":{"id":"405981","type":"image","title":"Gregory Zinman","body":null,"created":"1449254153","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:35:53","changed":"1475895129","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:09","alt":"Gregory Zinman","file":{"fid":"76123","name":"gregoryzinmanweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gregoryzinmanweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gregoryzinmanweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":119230,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/gregoryzinmanweb.jpg?itok=VdlBuv3b"}}},"media_ids":["405981"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1616","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"167943","name":"School of Literature Media and Communication"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}