Cutting Bodies
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General) North American (US General American - GenAM)Transcript
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What is this site? Embody the basic tensions of the age of reproduction. It literally transformed from a space of industrial production to a space of post production, showing the after effects of production, so to speak. This space is not produced but reproduced. There's no final cut, but ever morphing edits hard cuts and blur transitions between different chunks of contained exotic. It's if the heart of the body is cut, we can add a substitute for it. On the next screen, we can re edit the cut off parts of the body to create a body that doesn't exist in reality only in editing a body composed of lives cut from other bodies, limbs deems superfluous and inconvenient or accessible. We can recompose a new body with these cut off pieces, nobody that combines the bones of the dead and the folly of the natural bodies of the living, a form of life that exists in editing and by editing. While editing is usually understood as a modification in the temporal dimension, cinema also cuts bodies in space by framing them, retaining only what's useful to the narration. While a long or full shot will mostly leave the bodies represented intact medium shots. Close ups will chop off large parts of the bodies. The body is disarticulated and re articulated in a different forms. As John Lewis Comolli dramatically states, the frame cuts into the body and sharp, crisp and clean as a razor's edge.