Cinema in extremis: notes on an strident silence in the film Grizzly man

Authors

  • Marcelo Carvalho da Silva

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30962/ec.805

Keywords:

O homem urso, Herzog, Treadwell, elisão sonora, imagem-cristal

Abstract

The environmentalist Timothy Treadwell, protagonist of the film Grizzly Man (2005) by Werner Herzog, joins the filmmaker’s gallery of great characters. Treadwell was killed by a grizzly bear in Alaska in the fall of 2003. The only evidence of his death – a latent subject of the film – is an audio tape recorded by accident by Treadwell’s video camera. The great interest of the sequence that presents this audio tape consists in how Herzog elides the sound. Such elision raises questions about the limits of image (Serge Daney and André Bazin) and Deleuze’s crystal-image. How far can image go (an ethical question) and how should it be realized (an esthetic question)? Keywords Grizzly man. Herzog. Treadwell. Sound elision. Crystal-image.

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Published

10-01-2013

How to Cite

Carvalho da Silva, M. (2013). Cinema in extremis: notes on an strident silence in the film Grizzly man. E-Compós, 15(3). https://doi.org/10.30962/ec.805

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