Selected Readings of Modern &
Contemporary Literary Theories Example 2:
“Mindscape” Jacques Drouin 1976, 7 min 31 sec
Starting Questions (1) Meanings? the use of symbols (e.g.
nature, garden, town house, toys, clock, fire and labyrinth)
Starting Questions (2)
Form and Content (1) pinscreen technique
blurs the boundaries between different objects and different scenes to show the function of the mind in remembering.
pinscreen technique
From the Natural to the Domestic
pinscreen technique (2)
Eyes and Doors as entrances into the mind
More Questions (3)
Form and Content (2): How is the beginning and ending similar to and/or different from each other? How do they show about the artist's present life? Quiet and comfortable? Isolated in a cold environment?
Form and Content (3): Why does the painting also look like a window? How come landscape painting can be related to "mindscape"? Do our memories have frames?
Close Analysis: the painting at the beginning
Close Analysis: the painting at the end
Close Analysis: the painting at the end (2)
More Questions
Can we read this animation as an overcoming of trauma?
What ideologies can we find in the text?
What discourses can it be placed in? (Social/Historical Contexts –Omitted t
his time.)