This book shows how a masterpiece of experimental cinema can be interpreted through hermeneutics of the film world. As an application of Ricurian methodology to a non-narrative film, the book calls into question the fundamental concept of the film world. Firmly rooted within the context of experimental cinema, Stan Brakhage's Dog Star Man was not created on the basis of a narrative structure and representation of characters, places and events, but on very different presuppositions. The techniques with which Brakhage worked on celluloid and used frames as canvases, as well as his choice to make the film without dialogue and sound, exhort the interpreter to directly question the philosophical language of moving images.

Engages with the relationship between film and philosophy Focuses in detail on Stan Brahkage's "Dog Star Man" (1962) Proposes an innovative approach to the interpretation of experimental cinema

Autorentext
Alberto Baracco conducts research on film, film philosophy and film ecocriticism at the University of Torino, Italy.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: DSM and Philosophy.- Chapter 3: Understanding DSM 's Film World.- Chapter 4: Explaining DSM 's Film World.- Chapter 5: Critical Understanding of DSM 's Film World.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.