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This book has been concerned with relations to the dead that are pursued, rarefied, through moving image art. Throughout I have explored the disturbance of divisions between the living and the dead, in examining those extreme states, coma, bare life in the camps, and those motifs, the deathbed and display of the dead, the Pietà , which offer a carnal figure for hesitation between life and death. Moving image art can make visible hesitations between movement and stillness, between animation and fixity, capturing fine mechanisms of thought and feeling in the face of loss. Making art of such experience, forging moving, sensory testimony, opens in a public arena questions about mortality and about the wishes, the longing, that surround it.
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Rainer Maria Rilke, Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke, edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell (New York: Random House, 1995), p. 57.
W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz, trans. Anthea Bell (London: Penguin Books, 2002), p. 261.
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Wilson, E. (2012). Conclusion. In: Love, Mortality and the Moving Image. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230367708_9
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