 The Enactive Cinema project introduces a novel kind of interactive cinema genre, which is described as enactive cinema: How the narrative unfolds, and how rhythm and soundscape emerge, depend on how the spectator experiences the emotional dynamics between the characters. Enactive cinema emphasizes unconscious interaction between the cinema spectator and the cinema. Instead of the spectator directly manipulating the narrative, its unfolding is affected by the spectator's emotional participation.The project suggests that unconscious and conscious experience interact in an inseparable and complex manner. The cinema experience is more than seeing and hearing. It is about sensing and re-living of one’s own experience in what happens to the “others” – This is, ENACTIVE CINEMA.
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Last Updated ( Oct 20, 2006 at 08:45 AM )
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The team has developed new tools for managing and editing cinematic material, this, in order to emphasize the multidimensionality of the emotional content in the narrative imagery. In the core of enactive cinema project Obsession (2003, 2005, 2006) a kind of Eisensteinian 'montage-machine' is in work. The ”montage-machine” is based on a narrative logic that matches cinematic content with spectators’ psycho-physiological states. Thus the spectator’s emotional experiences have effects on the narrative, constituting an ecological circuit of continuous interaction with the spectator and the narrative space.
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Last Updated ( Oct 06, 2006 at 10:33 AM )
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In the real Eisensteinian spirit, instead of two tracks,the unfolding of enactive cinema scene involves three: moving image, sound and emotion tracks. The emotional dynamics is given its own cinematic role. The invitation to enact is very gentle. Enactive cinema emphasizes the spectator’s situated involvement. While following the cinematic narrative, each spectator’s heart rate, breathing and movements are continuously measured by the built-in bio-sensors. The spectator’s emotional experience is connected to the installation’s real-time emotional montage-dynamics even without conscious attention on interaction.
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Last Updated ( Oct 06, 2006 at 10:35 AM )
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