Skip to main content
Kent Academic Repository

The Black Screen

Misek, Richard (2017) The Black Screen. Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival DCP. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:61733)

The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided.
Official URL:
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransiti...

Abstract

All films emerge from and return to the void of the black screen. Black is cinema’s ground, a blank canvas in negative. Yet when we see a black or near-black image within a film, it is never nothing. What does the black screen reveal to us... or conceal from us? In this film, an unseen editor explores the ambiguity and mystery of cinema’s primary colour by taking a mental journey through some of the most obscure moments in film history.

Item Type: Visual media
Uncontrolled keywords: black; light; editing; essay film
Subjects: N Visual Arts > N Visual arts (General). For photography, see TR
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures
Institutional Unit: Schools > School of Arts and Architecture > Arts
Former Institutional Unit:
Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Arts
Funders: Arts and Humanities Research Council (https://ror.org/0505m1554)
Depositing User: Richard Misek
Date Deposited: 15 Sep 2017 13:23 UTC
Last Modified: 20 May 2025 08:29 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/61733 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

  • Depositors only (login required):

Total unique views of this page since July 2020. For more details click on the image.