B r e a t h i n g  in  Apichatpong

Donatella Valente

doi:10.16995/ddl.693

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B r e a t h i n g in Apichatpong

Author: Donatella Valente (Birkbeck College, University of London)

Short Circuit

B r e a t h i n g in Apichatpong

Author: Donatella Valente (Birkbeck College, University of London)

DonatellaValente is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Film, Media and CulturalStudies at Birkbeck, University of London. Her doctoral research focuses on experimentalpractices with the archive in the Italian avant-garde film of the 1960s.<o:p></o:p>Sheteaches Film and Media studies on the MA and BA degree programs at Birkbeck andLondon South Bank University. Her teaching and writing centre on the aestheticsof female creativity in new media, critiquing gender in the movies, world artcinema, and experimental practices with the archive.<o:p></o:p>Sheis a regular contributor to the International online film journal Senses of Cinema (“If Arte Povera wasPop: Artists' and Experimental Cinema in Italy 1960s-70s”, “Jacques Rivette's Out 1: From First to Last”). She alsopublished in such academic publications as Intellect,on memory and audiovisual media, postmedia and video networks, and in Mimesis International, on the archiveand art. A book chapter on experimental cinema – as part of an edited volume onItalian Independent Cinema – is upcoming. <o:p></o:p>Sheis General Editor of the Research Arts Journal Dandelion, based at Birkbeck, University of London. <o:p></o:p>

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By drawing on installation artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and on feminist theorist and media artist Trinh T. Minh-ha, Donatella Valente’s video essay ‘B r e a t h i n g in Apichatpong’ reflects on the technical abilities of the video camera to ‘breathe’, which is to write and reshape space, and create a woman’s ‘fourth dimension’ where she locates a new realm of awareness and activity. Through her ‘seeing and being’ in the digital domain, poised between stillness and speed, woman thus outlines a new video aesthetic.

Her video essay is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6INCp2jq2M

Keywords: feminist video, breathing, video aesthetic

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Valente, D., (2018) “B r e a t h i n g in Apichatpong”, Dandelion: Postgraduate Arts Journal and Research Network 9(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/ddl.693

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