Sound Before Picture

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Donnelly, C ORCID: 0000-0002-8872-0752 (2023) Sound Before Picture. Zenodo.

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Abstract

This video essay is inspired by Walter Ruttmann's 1930 work 'Weekend'. Ruttmann called the film Weekend a "blind film" and noted that it "uses sound as an end in itself". "In order to consider Weekend as a film," explains theorist Michel Chion, "it must be associated with a frame, even an empty one." The author of this essay is concerned with these empty frames, which are largely devoid of meaningful images, but are sonically and narratively rich. The sound seems to precede the picture.

Item Type:	Other
Uncontrolled Keywords:	video essay; film sound; ruttmann; weekend
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
Divisions:	Screen School
Publisher:	Zenodo
Date of acceptance:	15 July 2023
Date Deposited:	23 Jan 2024 09:48
Last Modified:	03 Jul 2025 12:36
DOI or ID number:	10.5281/zenodo.10551330
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/22424

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