Cinema's Bodies

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The course explores the cinematic construction of bodies, female, male, animal and others. They are not standing alone as they are framed, cut, exposed, veiled, enlarged, distorted and gendered. The body is screened at the screen and composed into an imaginary image of beauty, death, sex, work. Cinematic devices like close-up, camera angle, light etc. transform bodies into the body of the film and its specific style, from which they can't be subtracted. This leads to the question of the spectator’s body as screen for the filmic body and the many theoretical explorations to the embodied visions cinema entails and stimulates.