Video Essay: “From The Flicker to Gaspar Noé“ | FILMADRID & MUBI: The Video Essay

Read the introduction to this video essay on MUBI’s Notebook: Video essay by Carlos Baixauli. Selected for “The Video Essay,“ a section at FILMADRID Festival Internacional de Cine presented in collaboration with MUBI. “From The Flicker to Gaspar Noé“ by Carlos Baixauli. A journey into experimental cinema through the films of Gaspar Noé and his dialogue between the use of the flicker technique and the works of directors such as Paul Sharits, Toshio Matsumoto, Peter Tcherkassky and José Val del Omar among many others. The Video Essay is a joint project of MUBI and FILMADRID International Film Festival. Film analysis and criticism found a completely new and innovative path with the arrival of the video essay, a relatively recent form that has already its own masters and is becoming increasingly popular. The limits of this discipline are constantly expanding; new essayists are finding innovative ways to study the history of cinema working with images. With this non-competitive section