Open AccessThe Mirror Shield: the Camera as anInstrument of Civil Defence
Author(s) -
Roman Aleksandrovich Naveskin,
Roman Alexandrovich Naveskin
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
vestnik vgik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-2471
pISSN - 2074-0832
DOI - 10.17816/vgik24148-154
Subject(s) - theme (computing) , club , sass , session (web analytics) , visual arts , film director , photography , basketball , media studies , art , art history , sociology , psychology , history , advertising , movie theater , computer science , archaeology , world wide web , geology , business , paleontology
Another session of the Student Club under the Student Academic Society (SAS)took place in May at VGIK. The audience was shown the notorious "Tarnation" made by Jonathan Caouette, a 32-year-old gay Texas filmmaker who compiled this film from over 160-hour footage of himself and his Jamily. The movie aroused a heated discussion participated by VGIK students and guests from other universities. In the course of the discussion the idea of using a hand-held video camera as an instrument of civil self-defense was suggested In connection with the new academic year and the resuming of the SASs activity this theme is worth a closer examination.