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Realism as ontological unrest: Digital aesthetics and reparative dynamics in Mati Diop’s ‘Atlantics’

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dc.creatorPesch, Katrin
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-26T09:53:54Z
dc.date.available2023-01-26T09:53:54Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractGrounded in Dakar’s elemental properties as much as manifestations of immaterial and virtual presence, French-Senegalese director Mati Diop’s film Atlantics (2019) embodies what Thomas Elsaesser has described as a post-photographic realism of world cinema. In this article, I show how Atlantics collapses divisions between the evidentiary and the ghostly within the same realist impulse to create a reparative postcolonial aesthetic. Furthermore, as seen in the lucid depiction of Dakar’s clairvoyant nights, the ontological unrest of the film’s post-photographic realism also happens at the level of image aesthetics.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19198
dc.identifier.urihttps://necsus-ejms.org/realism-as-ontological-unrest-digital-aesthetics-andreparative- dynamics-in-mati-diops-atlantics/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20369
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNECS
dc.publisher.place
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectontological turnen
dc.subjectmaterialityen
dc.subjectvirtualen
dc.subjectdigital night filmmakingen
dc.subjectneocolonialismen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.titleRealism as ontological unrest: Digital aesthetics and reparative dynamics in Mati Diop’s ‘Atlantics’en
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2023-08-14T13:18:02
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://necsus-ejms.org/realism-as-ontological-unrest-digital-aesthetics-andreparative- dynamics-in-mati-diops-atlantics/
local.source.epage200
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitle#Materiality
local.source.spage175
local.source.volume11

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