Abstract
The dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker Maya Deren can be seen as one of the pioneers of screendance. Her experimental films have challenged conventional plot- driven mainstream cinema by emphasizing an ambiguous experience, open for multiple interpretations. For Deren film viewing is a socially determined ritual embodying intersubjectively shared experiences of participants. This makes her films particularly interesting for today’s neurocinematic studies. Deren’s ideas also anticipate the recent enactive mind approach, according to which the body-brain system is in an inseparable manner situated and coupled with the world through interaction. It assumes that both private, such as perception and cognition, and intersubjective aspects of human enactment, such as culture, sciences, or the arts, are based on the embodiment of life experience. Reflecting this discourse, Deren’s film At Land is analyzed as an expression of a human body-brain system situated and enactive within the world, with references to neuroscience, neurocinematic studies, and screendance.
Highlights
The leader of the research groups NeuroCine and Enactive Cinema, she has published on the topics of neurocinematics and enactive media and written the book “Enactive Cinema: Simulatorium Eisensteinense.” She has been honored the titles of Adjunct Professor of New Narrative Media at University of Lapland and Fellow of Life in the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image
As the leader of the research groups NeuroCine and Enactive Cinema, she has published on the topics of neurocinematics and enactive media and written the book “Enactive Cinema: Simulatorium Eisensteinense.”
In the free viewing paradigm test subjects are asked to freely engage in viewing film footage of long durations without any other specific task while their brain behavior is recorded by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging
Summary
Land: enactive, embodied, and Pia Tikka is a professional filmmaker and EU Mobilitas Research Professor at the Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Comneurocinematic munication School (BFM) and MEDIT. The leader of the research groups NeuroCine and Enactive Cinema, she has published on the topics of neurocinematics and enactive media and written the book “Enactive Cinema: Simulatorium Eisensteinense.”. Her ENACTIVE VIRTUALITY research group studies the viewer’s experience of co-presence emerging in facial encounter with an enactive screen character: Enactive co-presence in narrative virtual reality
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