Sentences with phrase «older narrative forms»

That's what makes it a new kind of experience reaching above the older narrative forms humanity has come up with.

Not exact matches

The Biblical Theology Movement had sought to retrieve, in stripped - down form, a dimension of the old cohesion between natural world and biblical world by positing points of contact between the crafted narrative and the real world of cause and effect: the Mighty Acts of God.

Inconsistencies are not uncommon in Old Testament narrative literature; they ought, in fact, to be expected, in view of the process by which the Old Testament reached fixed and final form.

But the narrative gives us a form of celebration developed over the seven or eight following centuries (12:21 - 27 appears to be derived from the older J stratum; but 12:1 - 13, 43 - 49 is of the character of the Priestly history), since this developed meaning alone can represent the episode's true significance.

As these familiar strands of old stories collide, they form an increasingly unpredictable drama — one that, thanks to the impact of each narrative's formula upon the others, surprises as well as scares.

Using traditional research methods (reading old books) and non-traditional film processes (boiling old books) Gatten's films trace the contours of private lives and public histories, combining philosophy, biography, and poetry with experiments in cinematic forms and narrative structures.

But where Hong relentlessly deconstructs his narratives, laying bare their artifices and exposing the lonely needs that drive us to invent them, Bogdanovich the classicist is content to faithfully recreate the form of the old (his zooms are subtle and patient, not Hong's wild, drunken lurches), with nothing but a sly wink to the audience to remind us of the precariousness of our ideals.

This is the heart of Weerasethakul's work; taking old forms that have been suppressed or forgotten (as in the animist folk tales of Thailand) and re-forming them into narratives that speak with renewed urgency to the contemporary cultural climate.

We all know that the movie biopic is one tired narrative form, so trust the great Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor to breath new life on to its haggard old bones.

A community of freed slaves living in Ontario in 1849 forms a richly imagined backdrop for 11 - year - old Elijah's first - person narrative.

«In Electricomics, the world's oldest narrative art form and youngest technology combine as a uniquely 21st century medium, establishing a thought - through toolkit of open - source effects enabling its audience to create digital comics themselves, bringing their vital ideas to an exciting new mode of entertainment and education.»

About linear narrative being the oldest form of telling stories, I see how you get there, but I am not so sure about it.

With choreography specific to the structure of the building, a soundscape recorded over a month - long residency, and a narrative inspired by the centuries - old curatorial conundrum of the «Summer Exhibition», this is the London premiere of a performance which has taken different forms at a number of venues including the National Museum Stockholm, the Hamburger Kunsthalle and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

This involved working with found and everyday materials anything from old bus tickets to newsprint to pram wheels, to create collages which were both beautiful arrangements of colour and form, and visual narratives of the urban environment.

Secret codes and images embedded within the paintings, as well as architectural forms, evoke old world narratives and mythologies.

It needed to break free from centuries old figurative and narrative traditions which celebrated idealized human form in portraiture busts and statues.