Expanded Cinema and War; Trauma in Hyper-Documented Age
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Faruk Sabanovic Sabanovic-faruk-SMACT-Architecture-2022-Thesis.pdf
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Author(s)
Šabanović, Faruk
Advisor(s)
Sinnokrot, Nida
Date Issued
May 2022
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
This thesis investigates ways to wed Gene Youngblood’s notions of expanded cinema with the popular appeal of dramatic films whose narrative structures are driven by the conflict-crisisresolution system. By examining alternatives to conventional narratives surrounding war-torn sites of conflict, this thesis examines a series of experimental animation and kinetic and nonlinear story-driven artworks to develop an alternative grammar for a possible visual, narrative, and technical storytelling style for a future society of global peace. Drawing upon my personal history as a Bosnian animation filmmaker and having experienced first-hand the conflict as a casualty of war, these experiments seek to shed light on the imperative for simultaneously seeking a popular anti-war language while avoiding the mass appeal of conflict-driven narrative structures. I have developed a series of open-source, easily reproducible expanded cinematic experiments using everyday materials to address this issue.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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