The photographic works in this exhibition are a continuation of my ongoing interest in questioning our understanding of our contemporary visual world, particularly our experience of the moving-image. In seeking to expose the temporal pulse, shifting velocities, and gestures of women across different genres of cinema, False Continuity materialises the language systems used by film to mediate ideas of womanhood. Through disrupting our narrative experience of films from the genres of Hollywood Cinema, Romantic Comedy, Dystopian Science Fiction, Superhero, Horror (Vampire), and Fairy Tales this project reveals the seductive agency of cinematic images and the coding they contain regarding ‘being a woman’.
By using the cinematic process of false continuity editing—putting two or more non-chronological images together to create a new narrative—each work in the exhibition makes visible the repetitions of movement, tonality, and form used in cinema to construct filmic femininity.
Cinema is not a universal or primitive language system, or a language. It brings to light an intelligible content which is like a presupposition, a condition, a necessary correlate through which language constructs its own ‘objects’. But this correlate, though inseparable, is specific: it consists of movements and thought-processes (pre-linguistic images), and of points of view on these movements and processes (pre-signifying signs). It constitutes a whole ‘psychomechanics’, the spiritual automation, the utterable of a language system which has its own logic. 1
Photography is a porous practice that constantly leaks into and entwines with adjacent mediums, materials, and entities. 2
1. Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema 2: The Time Image. Translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta. Great Britian: Bloomsbury, 2017. 1985. 269.
2. Bare, Bjarne, Behzad Farazollahi, and Christian Tunge, eds. Why Photography? Milan: Skira, 2020. 8.
Image credit: Carl Warner
Image credit: Carl Warner
Image: Jacinta Giles, False Continuity (Hollywood Cinema), 2022
Image: Jacinta Giles, False Continuity (Dystopian Science Fiction), 2022
Image: Jacinta Giles, False Continuity (Romantic Comedy), 2022
Image: Jacinta Giles, False Continuity (Vampire), 2022
Image: Jacinta Giles, False Continuity (Fairy Tales), 2022