Film is not all about storytelling. Sometimes it is about light. Stan Brakhage (1933-2003), the prolific American avant-garde filmmaker, scratched, painted, hand-processed, and generally experimented in every conceivable way with celluloid in the effort to give the film-viewer a new…
Next week, Transpositions will be hosting a symposium on Christianity and film. Topics will range from the cinematic poetry of Stan Brakhage (Brett Potter), to the soteriology of The Avengers (Preston Yancey), to cinema’s anamnestic function in films such as Of Gods and Men…
In this post, part two of a series on morality in art, we will move on to another of critic Robert Horvitz’ questions in his 1976 Artforum article: ‘To what extent are we justified in suspending our moral judgment when the material being…
Sitting in Haché Gourmet Burgers restaurant last night in Copenhagen, I found myself gazing into an enormous wall-covering mirror and seeing the world around me in reflection. In a way, looking through this glass at my surroundings struck me as…
Transpositions is pleased to announce that Preston Yancey has now joined our rotation of regular contributors. Welcome, Preston! Author’s Note: This article contains spoilers for the 2006 film Babel. Last week, Christ and Pop Culture published an excellent article, “Counting Moral…
Editor’s Note: Transpositions is currently featuring a 5–part series on Daniel A. Siedell by Christopher R. Brewer. Part 1 – A Response to Siedell’s “Art and Culture, or Politics by Other Mean–Evangelical Style” was published 24 September. Here, in Part 2,…
In 2010, I attended a session on the state of the field of “religion and literature” at the British Association of Victorian Studies conference. I was slightly in awe meeting some of the incredible scholars I’d been reading the past…
Jay Johnstone has recently burst onto the scene as a Tolkien artist. His images of Tolkien characters are distinctive – he paints figures from The Lord of the Rings in the style of Christian icons. Johnstone’s work was spurred by…
Call for Papers for the 16th Annual C.S. Lewis and Inklings Conference Fairytales in the Age of i-pads: Inklings, Imagination, and Technology Plenary Speaker: Dr Ralph Wood March 21-23, 2013 LeTourneau University Longview, Texas, USA Papers on the above theme…