What is the cinema's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus?

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And who would you perhaps claim to be film's Wittgenstein (not necessarily the same answer as the director of the thread question)?

I can't really explain this easily, but for those who might understand - TLP had this way of using the tools of philosophy to logically cause it to eat its words. Is there a work or artist in film who has carefully constructed a film logic that then turns upon itself?

Or whatever. Well, take this question as you will. And for the record, as partisan an ILF'er as I am, I figured this question would be better on ILE b/c of the philosophical nature of it.

Oh, and one more question - would the endeavor described above be postmodern or would it be "beyond" postmodern (whatever postmodern means)?

Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 12 April 2004 06:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I really enjoyed Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein. I daresay he was a genius (Jarman, that is).

Broheems (diamond), Monday, 12 April 2004 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I've had the misfortune to sit through a lot of Derek Jarman films in my time - including his earlier short films. He was no genius.

Bob Six (bobbysix), Monday, 12 April 2004 07:21 (twenty-one years ago)


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