Watch: L'Arrive (1999)

Watch: L'Arrive (1999)  Links to an external site.(2:20) 

Still of L'arrive from MUBI Links to an external site.

Just like how the prisoner becomes aware of the artists manipulating the puppets, we can identify how self-reflexivity is employed in films to foreground the film medium. Self-reflexivity is defined as making a reference to the medium.

L’Arrive, translated to “The Arrival,” is a film from 1999 that manipulates found footage from a film to create tension through the foregrounding of the film medium. The film is directed by Peter Tscherkassky, 

While Watching...

While watching this film, pay attention to how Tscherkassky foregrounds analog filmmaking materials and manipulates the frame to deliberately pull the viewer out of the film. Be advised that there is some strobing!

You can view the film at the above link or through the preview below

 

 

On the next page, you'll be presented with a choice of feature film screenings for the week. 

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