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Twenty-First Century Flicker: Jodie Mack, Benedict Drew and Sebastian Buerkner

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Due to its openness towards frame-by-frame processes, experimental animation is the privileged custodian of cinematographic flicker effects. Intense—almost sculptural—attention to frame intervals and the kinetic visual rhythms and patterns they can create exposes the stroboscopic ‘pulse’ of cinematography and the limits of ‘animation’. More than this, creative use of flicker offers us, as subjects, a valuable opportunity to reassess our relationship to the heavy image flow of our multi-screen culture. This chapter makes its case by concentrating on recent flicker work by Jodie Mack, Benedict Drew and Sebastian Buerkner and situates them within the lineage of experimental flicker practice.

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Dicker, B. (2018). Twenty-First Century Flicker: Jodie Mack, Benedict Drew and Sebastian Buerkner. In: Smith, V., Hamlyn, N. (eds) Experimental and Expanded Animation. Experimental Film and Artists’ Moving Image. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73873-4_4

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