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 Non-Siting the Site: A Summer home ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan Written and composed in English  by Abdel Hernandez San Juan   Brian Deutzman a young Anglo-American filmmaker from New York has recently finished his short movie A Summer Home. The film itself is one of the best films I has seen in many years.    It suggests certain relations between how the eye worked in the aesthetic of surrealism earlier films and Posmodern figures explored, however, in a form that seems to move beyond such figures, even when probably still some very subtle almost evanescent echoes or clues of remedos, pastiches and parodies may be perceived yet behind, it is not only less than usually in Posmodern works but almost diluted inside a more spiritual and metaphysical artistic whole that suggest to be a previous form to a concept he is actually exploring in his current new film, that one of metafiction.   In A Summer Home the concept of metafiction is not as focused yet, but th...

 The Degree Zero of the Screen: The Eye Body in a Summer Home ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan Written and composed in English  by Abdel Hernandez San Juan   I should speak in only five minutes, I written a paper on the movie Non Siting the Site, but it is to letlee time not only to read that paper but even to maintain a lecture of only five minutes constrained by a longer paper, from this point I will try to discuss some new issues while also doing some relations between this issues and the paper.   I am interested in a concept trying to continue my theory on a certain relation between Deutzman movie an the effects of the eye of the camera in earlier surrealism, that one of the optical unconcient developed by Rosalind Krauss.  Certainly this concept of the optical unconcient is related not with the idea of the optical provided by op art when all we have in front of us visually are the lines, colors, surfaces and special effects of oculars phenomena’s physicall...

  Cinema and Gesture: Regarding Image and Gesture in A Summer Home ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan Written and composed in English  by Abdel Hernandez San Juan   The main concept that can relate how cinema is in the very side of film and in the very side of the visual arts, can be the concept of gesture in its relation with the concept of cinema    Let develop how can we theorize and discuss this.    I will first want to explain how gesture is evolved and major to understand how the imagination of cinema started to be considered from the visual art meaning now only the plastic arts coming from painting, drawings, photography, etc., let then late discuss how gesture can be theorized and discussed in cinema coming from the very side of film recording far from the plastic arts meaning discussing it as a matter of the camera and let after try to theorize and discuss how to relate as well as difference both sides    The first way to start to include ...

  A middle way Between Narrative and non-narrative, Environmental Sound in a Summer Home ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan Written and composed in English  by Abdel Hernandez San Juan   An statement thinking about sound and music in film and cinema starting from the concept or the idea of silence can be conceptually interesting to an occasion focused on sound and music. Silence is the opposite of sound and music or the symbol of no sound but at the same time the concept from which sound need to be related to be defined as a sound itself, silence or not sound seen as the opposite pair or as the other side of sound as sound need silence to be sound and silence sound to be silence, each one need the other to be itself.    The previous issue remember how Hegel defined and discussed the relation of mutual necessity and oppositions between major pairs, between being and nothing, for example, even considered out of existential parameters, when the idea of nothing appear not...

  General Bibliography Barthes, Roland The Responsibility of Forms, Essays on Music, Art and Representation, The University of California Press Eco umberto, la estructura ausente, lumen Hernandez San Juan Abdel, 1996- Beyond the Intertextual. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan, Conference Lectured at the Fondren Library Lectures Auditorium as a guest of the faculty of classical and Hispanic studies in his area of research of semiotic, theory of art, anthropology, curator at the alejandro otero museum of visual art, coordinated by Surpic Angelini and Hector Urrutibeity, translated by Graciela daichman, 45 minutos version of a paper The posmodern work. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan, translated by Gabriel, translations coordinated by surpik angelini and transart Foundation, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA Hernandez San Juan Abdel, 1998- Cultural Bodies. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan, published catalogue, english, translated by Cristina jadick, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA Hernandez ...