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Narrative Ecology in Artists’ Cinema: Albert Serra, Helena Wittmann, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Saodat Ismailova.

par De Cock De Rameyen, Jade
Président du jury Delattre, Alain
Promoteur Parent, Sabrina
Co-Promoteur Nasta, Dominique
Publication Non publié, 2023-07-04

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This thesis offers tools to address the issue that we need other stories to face climate change. My hypothesis is that there are a series of fundamental choices underpinning our methodologies of narrative analysis, which have considerable consequences in how we understand the entanglement of our human and non-human worlds. Thus, the thesis interrogates narrative theory by putting it to the test of stories that challenge settled categories: artists' cinema. First the object of artists’ critiques, narrative thrives today in the museum. Contemporary artist-filmmakers inherit both from cinema’s affinity with storytelling, and from a long tradition of critique of narrative in experimental cinema and video art. How does artist-filmmakers’ critical heritage affect the way these stories are told? What does it teach us about storytelling? To address this issue I focus on the artist’s fiction feature film, in addition to what accompanies it in the gallery, particularly video installations. I have opted for four filmmakers: Albert Serra (1975, Spain), Helena Wittmann (1982, Germany), Apichatpong Weerasethakul (1970, Thailand) and Saodat Ismailova (1981, Uzbekistan). Drawing from narratology, I provide five keywords to interrogate what narrative does, and how: diegesis, forces, plot & event, causality and teleology. Each of these five keywords opens a series of philosophical problems that are explored through the analysis of the films and thanks to philosophy (Etienne Souriau, Gilles Deleuze), film studies and narratology. As this research argues, the way these artists engage with slowness, ambient sounds and multiworldliness paves the way for a change of paradigm in how we tell and think stories in times of ecological disorders.