The Passion of Joan of Arc — Carl Theodor Dreyer (Full Film)

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  1. I. Vampyr
    An underrated masterpiece. Cinema as dreamscape but inside outside in! Imagine what it would be like to see yourself, dislocated from yourself, laying in a coffin and, just as well, to see yourself, dislocated from yourself, looking in at you in your coffin!
    (Makes for a wonderful juxtapositional-study / double-feature with Keaton’s Sherlock Jr.: both films experiment with didactic texts in different ways (Dreyer’s how-to-kill-vampires-book and Keaton’s “How to be a Detective”); both films straddle reality and dreamworld (Dreyer’s astral-projected-story-resolving Dorian Gray, Keaton’s sleeping projectionist); both films…
    II. Day of Wrath
    The movie that exemplifies Heidegger(by way of Derrida)’s “term under erasure” by canceling out its own protestive agenda; or else: it is a revisionist-history-horror-film for the modern audience, because we empathize with the persecuted and, yet, her hexes and witchery are ultimately realized by the film!
    III. The Passion of Joan of Arc
    IV. Ordet
    V. Gertrud

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