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155Deceptive Retrospective Narrative Strategy and Synchronistic Prerequisite: Case Study on The Design of Impossible PuzzlesCinej Cinema Journal 11 (1): 258-288. 2023.The deceptive clues in the impossible puzzle film confirm the viewer’s internal expectations and allow retrospective attributing. In the film, a transcendental object negates an internal expectation, causing a retrospective blockage. Retrospectivity does not stop there; the transcendental object reinterpreting deceptive clues in the associative area leads to repeated attribution. This article consists of three parts. First, it discusses impossible puzzle films in the context of complex narrative…Read more
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119The Fallacy of Self-Referencing Images: The Use of Ambiguous Characters in Moving Images through the Form of PaintingRiact-Revista de Investigação Artística, Criação e Tecnologia 3 13-35. 2021.Connecting research and production, art research represents a breaking of the barrier between creation and academia. However, there is also a contradiction contained in this kind of research deriving from its methods, since the process of art-based practice must, by its very nature, involve the subjectivity of the artist. I use my own studies as the research object to discuss this issue, and this article presents the problems I encountered during my artistic practice and research of ambiguous ro…Read more
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219Metaphors for Puzzles, Time, and Dreams: Ambiguous Narratives in Kaili BluesInternational Journal of Literary Humanities 21 (2): 1-20. 2023.In the film “Kaili Blues” by Bi Gan, intricate clues create complex connections between the plots steered by various characters. This relationship manifests in splitting time and alternating between dream and reality. This article analyzes Bi Gan’s approach to temporality and dreams by focusing on how he employs various film metaphors to deal with poetic narratives in his films. The article consists of three sections: First, it introduces the (puzzle) storytelling form of “Kaili Blues” as a prom…Read more
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148Projection of Multiple Fantasies: De-subjectivity of Images in Long Day’s Journey into NightInternational Journal of the Image 13 (1): 63-79. 2022.Gilles Deleuze demonstrated the key role of flashback in dealing with the relationship between actual image and recollection-image when interpreting the temporality of images. He established two criteria for judging whether a flashback implies a recollection-image by stating that: (1) it serves as some kind of prompt in the narrative to make the viewer perceive that the scene has entered a flashback; (2) it relies on fate or forking time. But Deleuze also mentioned that, if the context or condit…Read more
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Visual Arts |
Arts and Humanities, Misc |
Literature |
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Arts and Humanities |
Film and Television |
Visual Arts |
Jacques Lacan |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
Zizek: Psychoanalysis |
Henri Bergson |
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