Plumbing the surfaces: reading Martin Arnold's 'Alone: Life Wastes Andy Hardy'
Summers, Francis (2010) Plumbing the surfaces: reading Martin Arnold's 'Alone: Life Wastes Andy Hardy'. In: Surface Tensions Symposium, 4-5 February 2010, Victoria & Albert Museum. (Unpublished)
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To think of critical practice in cinema, especially in the realm of artist's cinema using found footage, the dichotomy of surface and depth are often put into a play of oppositions, as stated aim of the work become that of un-veiling a previously repressed aspect embedded in the found cinematic object. Reading the 1998 film 'Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy' by filmmaker Martin Arnold, a work which recycles the Andy Hardy series of film musicals into a staggered-stuttered assemblage, this paper will re-consider this play, to think of some models whereby the notion of depth is put into question. Posing some models of looking at the surface of the aesthetic that circumnavigates the question of the hidden this paper will instead aim to plumb the surfaces of the apparent in Arnold's practice.
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