Still Drifting? Expanded Situationism and Filmic Dérive

Laura Rascaroli

doi:10.14591/aniki.v2n1.139

Laura Rascaroli University College Cork, Film & Screen Media, School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, Cork, Ireland.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v2n1.139

Resumen

Ideas connected to the sphere of expanded cinema are here mobilised to identify the aesthetics and ideology of the use of a technology that is no longer filmic, but that derives from it, while having never been a cinematic genre or form in itself. Expanded cinema’s emphasis on participation, on performance and on an adapted experience of space and time are equally useful to an understanding of the contemporary phenomenon of post-situationist dérive and of its revival as a critical artistic practice in the contemporary world. My point is that dérive can be seen, in some of its manifestations at least, as a filmic concept — but one that does not associate itself with the cinema as a historicised technology of projection and a place.

Biografía del autor/a

Laura Rascaroli, University College Cork, Film & Screen Media, School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, Cork, Ireland.

Laura Rascaroli completed a Laurea in Modern Letters at the Universita' Cattolica of Milan in 1992, specialising in Social Communications and with a Film Studies dissertation. She was awarded a Higher Doctorate by the NUI in 2014. She is Senior Lecturer and Codirector of the Discipline of Film and Screen Media at University College Cork, where she lectures on European and world cinema and on film theory on the BA in Film and Screen Media, the MA in Film Studies and degrees of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. She has a substantial track record of scholarly publications, successful grant applications, collaborative research, project management, and conference organisation. Her professional activities include a special focus on PhD and ECR mentoring.

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