{"id":960,"date":"2005-12-08T04:07:42","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T10:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=960"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:35:08","slug":"shadows-specters-and-shards-making-history-in-avant-garde-film-from-the-pole-to-the-equator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2005\/12\/08\/shadows-specters-and-shards-making-history-in-avant-garde-film-from-the-pole-to-the-equator\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadows, Specters, and Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film &#8211; From the Pole to the Equator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday, December 8, 2005, 6pm<\/strong> | <em>Jeffrey Skoller in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1882\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/05\/prisonersofwar450-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/05\/prisonersofwar450-1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/05\/prisonersofwar450-1-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The last part of a trio of screenings related to the release of the Department of Film, Video and New Media\u2019s Jeffrey Skoller\u2019s book <em>Shadows, Specters, and Shards: Making History in Avant-garde Film<\/em>. The <em>Flow of Blood and Life From the Pole to the Equator <\/em>is a monumentally unique documentary. Drawing on the film archives of pioneer documentary filmmaker Luca Comerio (1874-1940), Italian filmmakers Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi use turn-of-the-century footage from regions that were then fabulously exotic &#8211; the Arctic, India, Africa and less remote but equally striking settings in the Dolomites and the Caucasus &#8211; and assembled it at a sleepwalker\u2019s pace, with changeable color tints and a humming electronic score. The result offers haunting glimpses of a world in the process of being conquered. There\u2019s no moralizing commentary to point up the contradictions that inevitably arise here\u2014each viewer is left to dream his\/her way through a phantasmagoria that extends the definition of Empire\u2014building to the act of photography itself (Janet Maslin). 1987, Angela Ricci Lucchi &amp; Yervant Gianikian, Germany\/Italy\/West Germany, 96 min, 16mm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, December 8, 2005, 6pm | Jeffrey Skoller in person! The last part of a trio of screenings related to the release of the Department of Film, Video and New Media\u2019s Jeffrey Skoller\u2019s book Shadows, Specters, and Shards: Making History in Avant-garde Film. The Flow of Blood and Life From the Pole to the Equator [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2005\/12\/08\/shadows-specters-and-shards-making-history-in-avant-garde-film-from-the-pole-to-the-equator\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Shadows, Specters, and Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film &#8211; From the Pole to the Equator<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":1882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[206,211,518],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10","tag-europe","tag-experimental","tag-saic-faculty"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10135,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/10135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}