PARIP 2003 NATIONAL CONFERENCE: 11-14 September MYER:
CLIVE This presentation of theory and practice engages epistemology, reflexivity and the instance of practice as theory. Where a contribution to new knowledge demonstrably lies at the heart of practice, then this practice itself is theoretical research. In the case of my own practice (of teaching and making) it is explored beyond the dialectic of form and content and into what I term a trialectical relationship with context. This methodology involves an examination of form as the defining factor for the reading of content, both of which are subjected to the theory of context as the wrapping device for specificity. It becomes necessary to work within practice itself, exploring this framework through shifting specificities on intertextual levels. This
framework does not use extradiegetic space to raise cinematic issues,
it evaluates film language through the very use of film language itself.
Particularly prevalent is the counterposing of image, sound and montage.
However, the filmic punctum within codes of acting, locations and costume
can also play a significant role in the methodology of film-practice research. Clive Myer is Director of The Film Academy, University of Glamorgan, founder and former Director of The International Film School Wales, Independent filmmaker.
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