Tag: dailyprompt-1876

Why we look at a ‘two-dimensional’ picture but watch a picture that contains movement.  The possible role of attentional features of vision.

March 13, 2026

Why we look at a ‘two-dimensional’ picture but watch a picture that contains movement.  The possible role of attentional features of vision. It seems entirely innocent to us to talk about ‘watching’ a film, TV or a ‘movie’ but we don’t often distinguish ‘watxhibg’ from a rather passive act of looking at or gazing at … More Why we look at a ‘two-dimensional’ picture but watch a picture that contains movement.  The possible role of attentional features of vision.

Motion picture storytelling at its best: Claude Berri’s story of multiple competing male obsessions in his ‘Jean de Florette’ & ‘Manon des Sources’ films.

March 4, 2025

The problem with this film is that its central female character, Manon, is a kind of symbol and not a woman. The woman who I think matters in it is not her but Florette, whose life and death of repression and flight from the shame that births her son, Jean, and who generates the film’s … More Motion picture storytelling at its best: Claude Berri’s story of multiple competing male obsessions in his ‘Jean de Florette’ & ‘Manon des Sources’ films.