Indeterminable Frames

A digital humanities + film and media studies project re-examining the moving image.

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Animated file of ImagePlot plotting Jordan Belson's Chakra (1972).
ImagePlot plotting Jordan Belson's Chakra (1972). Graphed by median brightness horizontally (x-axis) and median saturation vertically (y-axis).

This project continues ongoing conversations about recontextualizing and expanding our understanding of how we engage with film using avant-garde and experimental works originating as celluloid media as case studies.

Can we encounter new meanings from moving image works when we view the frames concurrently? How do digital humanities applications contribute to an alternative method of engagement with moving images? Are the resulting revisualizations an alternative form of film analysis, and thus, a form of cinematic consciousness?

See also: Villon, Patricia Ledesma. “Indeterminable Frames: Exploring Digital Humanities Approaches and Applications for the Moving Image.” Cinergie — Il Cinema e Le Altre Arti, 10, no. 20 (2021). (Forthcoming)