Category Archives: One Sentence, One Film

Accidental/At Will

by Kevin L. Ferguson Posted on April 5, 2012

A typewritten page about a Jacques Rivette article where he compares the shot and the sentence; I compare this to Roland Barthes distinction between "monumental writing" and "ephemeral speech" and discuss the character Angie in Olivier Assayas's film Carlos.

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Evenly Suspended Attention

by Kevin L. Ferguson Posted on March 26, 2012

a typewritten page applying Freud's notion of "evenly suspended attention" to Abbas Kairostami's Certified Copy (Copie conforme), particularly focusing on the son's complaint that his mother is "starry-eyed"