By frag_editorial DDDD (Duration, Difference and Deferral, Denial) was a brainstorm that I needed to see and hear rather than just think through, making the videographic experiment and experience essential to this attempt to map the structuralist sign through Duration (Deleuze), Difference and Deferral (Derrida), and Denial (Lyotard) onto the first moments of Chris Marker’s timeless Sans Soleil (Sunless, 1983). The brainstorm petered out around Lyotard, perhaps inevitably and maybe even appropriately, but the smell of electricity in the air remained. I’m not at all sure where this was eventually headed, nor if it manages anything meaningful at all, but the sense of a deep dive still troubles me like tinnitus.
About the maker
Rob Stone is Emeritus Professor of Film Studies at the University of Birmingham and the author of works on Spanish, European, World, and American independent cinema. He is also a videoessayist and filmmaker.
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