Des extraterrestres aux manettes des images
John Sherwood’s Monolith Monsters (1957), an exploitation movie unfairly forgotten nowadays (though based on an idea from Jack Arnold, the great master of that kind of cinema at the time), reports a unique case of mineral and crystalline aliens within the history of science-fiction cinema. The bias...
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2018-08-01
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| description | John Sherwood’s Monolith Monsters (1957), an exploitation movie unfairly forgotten nowadays (though based on an idea from Jack Arnold, the great master of that kind of cinema at the time), reports a unique case of mineral and crystalline aliens within the history of science-fiction cinema. The bias of this study is that those half-stones half-organisms extraterrestrials, whose analysis will require venturing into crystallography, reveal themselves as authentic theoretical figures engaging an original aesthetic appreciation about films: a mineralogy of film images. The film thus gets a demanding theoretical depth. The alien – whose form is charcoal – becomes the place of an aesthetic extra-territorialization that will lead to ask the images what kind of stones they are. |
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