Presentation (Film Studies) - Sulagna Bhattacharjee, Samarpita Das

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"The elements are the data, which are sometimes very numerous, sometimes of limited number." - Gilles Deleuze

This clip captures a layered frame, a set in which we see a semi-industrial area, a construction wasteland lying parallel to a busy street and at the very background a prominent high-rise of the city. Going by Deleuze's idea, the frame connotes a saturated tendency. We can infer that the images above have elements, or parts, which are integrated into the frame. Yet they have the capability of forming subsets. The objects (Data) in these images function independently which makes it difficult to distinguish between the principal and the secondary. It is also arduous to differentiate between the geometric approach and the physicality of the frame as it represents a spatial composition of both parallels and diagonals (Mainly parallels as evident in the parallel co-existence of the construction site and the street), forming blocs as well as the framing which has been conceived from a dynamic point of view linking it with the objects within it. 

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