Photography in Film - Lecture: Memento

• Assignment 1 - Essay Memento or La Jetee
• 'Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts' by Susan Heywood
• 'Photography & Cinema' by David Campany
• 'The Cinematic - Documents of Contemporary Art' by Davis Campany
• 'Classic Essays on Photography' by Alan Trachtenberg
• Christopher Nolan - Director - Memento - Film Noir
• Memento - flashbacks are in B&W
• The current is played out in reverse
• 'Neo-Noir' - Nino Frank
• Neo-Noir - Chinatown, Taxi Driver, The Long Goodbye
• Anti-heroes - who do we trust?
• Can't trust anybody!
• Zooming into photographs (Blade Runner)
• Form of truth
• Sontag - Most of the photographs
• Objectivity - truth, unbiased, factual
• Subjectivity - personal feelings, beliefs & desires
• Godard Quote
• Polyscenic - multiple interpretations
• Polaroids from Memento - William Egglestone Style
• Sontag - Fragile Proof
• Essay Tips - Notions of Proof - Subjectivity - Memory & Identity