What They See is What We Get in Film: Reality Tells the Fiction

Authors

  • Rob van Gerwen Utrecht University (Editor-in-Chief)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58519/aesthinv.v3i2.11944

Keywords:

philosophy of film, reality and fiction, film, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Robert Bresson

Abstract

Robert Bresson's cinematography allows him to show the affordances that things and situations have for characters in a film. By intimating these affordances, Bresson authentically presents the affordances as well as the characters. The fact that Bresson views and conceives of his `actors' as models, rather than as malleable actors, illustrates, again, an effort to authentically film real persons in real situations. Recognising people authentically is done in real-life through a reciprocal gaze, which is not automatically available to the camera's lens, an apparatus that does not look back at one. Perhaps, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's approach fits this effort better: not a writing with sounds and images, but an intuitive use of homeliness.

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Published

2020-07-22

How to Cite

van Gerwen, Rob. 2020. “What They See Is What We Get in Film: Reality Tells the Fiction”. Aesthetic Investigations 3 (2). Utrecht, NL:365-86. https://doi.org/10.58519/aesthinv.v3i2.11944.

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Philosophy of film without theory