| Dekalog 1: On the Five Obstructions Contributor(s): Hjort, Mette (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1905674759 ISBN-13: 9781905674756 Publisher: Wallflower Press OUR PRICE: $21.78 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2008 Annotation: Released in 2003, Lars von Trier and Jorgen Leth's agonisitic film is one of the most intriguing and significant cinematic works of recent times. This first issue in the Dekalog series, the new home for serious film criticism, brings together writers from diverse disciplinary and national backgrounds to present a case for seeing The Five Obstructions as a philosophically compelling film that tests our understanding of key psychological, aesthetic, and ethical issues: the role of others in facilitating self-understanding; creativity and its relation to constraint; individual style as an artistic problem; filmmaking as a form of play; and the ethical limitations of aestheticism. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| Series: Dekalog |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.8" W x 8.7" (0.60 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Released in 2003, Lars von Trier and Jorgen Leth's collaborative film has been received as one of the most intriguing and significant cinematic works of recent times. The film comprises five episodes, each a re-creation of Leth's classic film The Perfect Human (1967), but with five different creative constraints, or 'obstructions'. This first issue in the Dekalog series brings together writers from diverse disciplinary and national backgrounds. Together the essays present a case for seeing The Five Obstructions as a philosophically compelling cinematic work that tests our understanding of key psychological, aesthetic and ethical issues: the role that other people play in facilitating self-understanding; creativity and its relation to constraint; individual style as an artistic problem; filmmaking as a form of play; the pragmatic effects of nesting works within works; and the ethical limitations of aestheticism. An interview with Jrgen Leth helps to clarify aspects of the films context of production, including von Trier's manifesto-like call for works situated at the very boundary of fiction and non-fiction. |