Open AccessSalvage: A Film and Commentary
Author(s) -
Christopher Boulton,
Mary Ellen Slaughter
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
hyperrhiz
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1555-9351
DOI - 10.20415/hyp/022.g01
Subject(s) - alienation , antique , meditation , marxist philosophy , aesthetics , film director , art , art history , visual arts , literature , psychoanalysis , philosophy , psychology , movie theater , political science , theology , law , politics
In his 2020 short film Salvage, director Christopher Boulton invokes a Marxist notion of alienation—from experience, from being in the world, from objects—in this meditation on our relationship with objects we prize as exotic, antique.