Contents

PREFACE - BACK TO THE ROOTS OF FILM - Aleksander Kumor

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 REALITY AND FILM DIRETION

1.2 ON THE NEED FOR HAVING TO DOGMATIZE IN ART

1.3 ART AND SCIENCE

1.4 ARTISTIC INTUITION

1.5 IRRATIONAL FACTORS IN AN ART OF FILM DIRECTION

1.6 CREATIVE DIRECTION

1.7 AN ABSTRACT ESSENCE OF FILM

1.7.1. The metaphysics of film

1.7.2. An abstraction of a film event

1.7.3. Film as abstracted reality

1.7.4. Creative film

1.7.5. Uber-marionette - the character in a creative film

1.7.6. Word in a creative film

1.7.7. Film sound - indigenous music of film

2. THE TIME

2.1 TEMPORAL MODELS

2.2 IMPORTANT VIEWS ON TIME

2.3 SELECTED ASPECTS OF TIME IN ART

2.3.1 Time in poetry - structural and sound aspects

2.3.2 Time in music

2.3.3 Global time structures in film

2.4 HORIZONTAL TIME

2.5 VERTICAL TIME

2.6 THE STATIC ASPECT OF THE TIME IN FILM

2.7 UNIFORMITY OF THE HUMAN TIME

3. SPACE

3.1 THE IMAGINATIVE FILM SPACE

3.2 THE VISUAL DEPTH

3.3 THE AUDIAL DEPTH

3.4 THE ANTROPOMETRY OF SPACE

3.5 BRINGING TIME INTO SPACE

3.6 THE SYMETRY OF SPACE AND TIME

3.7 THE TRANSCENDENCY OF SPACE

4. THE MOTION (KINETICS)

4.1. THE POETIC MODE OF KINETIC ACTIONS

4.2. THE FUNCTION OF THE IMPULSES OF SUDDEN CHANGES

4.3. THE CONTINUOUS AND THE DISCONTINUOUS MOTION

4.4. THE CHARACTER OF A FILM FLOW

4.5. THE TAKE - A KINETIC UNIT OF A HIGHER ORDER

5. ANTROPOMETRIC CHRONOTOPY

5.1 THE HUMAN SCALE OF TIME AND SPACE IN FILM

5.2 ANTHROPOMETRIC MODULUS OF TIME IN FILM

5.3 THE SHOT - TEMPERED ANTHROPOMETRIC MODUS OF SPACE

5.4 THE CHRONOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS OF THE TAKES

5.5 THE METRIC AND RHYTMIC MODULUS

5.6 THE QUANT OF AN ACT

5.7 THE MONOMETRY AND POLIMETRY OF A FILM

6. THE TEMPO - THE SPEED OF THE KINETIC FLOW

6.1. THE INTERNAL TEMPO

6.2. THE EXTERNAL TEMPO

6.3. THE REAL TEMPO

7. THE RHYTHM

7.1 THE RHYTHM OF A FILM

7.2 ENERGETIC CELLS OF A RHYTHMIC MOTION

7.3 ASPECTS AND CATEGORIES OF A RHYTHMIC MOTION

7.4 COHESIVE AND EXPRESSIVE FUNCTION OF A RHYTHM

7.5 THE FILM NOTATION - RECORDING OF A FILM MOTION

7.6 KINESTHETIC SOLUTIONS IN THE FINAL EPISODE OF THE FILM ,,MOUTH FULL OF EARTH"

7.7 DIRECTING THE FILM ,,MOUTH FULL OF EARTH"