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J.F. Martel

J.F. Martel

J.F. Martel is an author, screenwriter and film/TV director from Ottawa, Canada. His screen work include French and English-language documentary series and features focused on culture and the arts. He is the author of Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, a book about the nature and power art published by Evolver Editions, and in Spanish translation by Ediciones Atalanta. J.F.’s writings on art, culture, and philosophy have appeared in Reality Sandwich, Metapsychosis, The Finch, Disinfo, and other online magazines. He co-hosts the Weird Studies podcast with musicologist Phil Ford.

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Making Mystery: An Interview with Andrew Antoniou

By
  • J.F. Martel
| 27 Apr 2021 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Interviews, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Visual Art

Reminiscent of the work William Blake, Max Beckmann, and Hieronymus Bosch—to say nothing of the latter’s medieval predecessors, Antoniou’s images find their singularity in the exploration of the imaginal encounter, the sacred drama.

Sunlight Through A Broken Leaf — Still from Terrence Malick's "The Thin Red Line" (1998), DP: John Toll

On the World-Disclosing Rifts of Cinema: J. F. Martel and Christopher Yates in Dialogue

By
  • J.F. Martel
  • Christopher Yates
| 29 Apr 2018 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Film/Music, Interviews, Longform/Essays, Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

What can films tell us about reality? In a deep-ranging dialogue drawing on the philosophical ideas of Martin Heidegger and looking at works by Terrence Malick, Wim Wenders, Stanley Kubrick, and other celebrated auteurs, two contemporary aesthetic thinkers reflect on the ways in which cinema brings us into a deeper, stranger relationship with the world, and our being in it.

Reality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger ThingsReality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger Things / Part Three

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  • J.F. Martel
| 27 Sep 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

But the dark truth conveyed in the character of Barb finds its counterbalance in the incredible creative power that Stranger Things attributes to the Cosmic Child, a power which is also present in each of us.

Reality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger ThingsReality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger Things / Part Two

By
  • J.F. Martel
| 27 Sep 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

Beneath the conceptual overlay, reality remains what it is: not an orderly network of humanly comestible ideas, but a turbid, ever-changing, symphonic, indefinable process of becoming that is accountable to neither the predilections of reason nor the strictures of logical grammar.

Reality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger ThingsReality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger Things / Part One

By
  • J.F. Martel
| 27 Sep 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Longform/Essays, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

The show remains open, ambiguous to the end, and it is this quality that raises it above the normal run of generic entertainment to make of it something that defies genre, something genuinely weird.

Notes on Wallace Stevens and Animism

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  • J.F. Martel
| 15 Aug 2016 Filed Under:
Microdoses, Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

There is no interiority whatsoever. Belief in interiority, in private unextended subjectivity, is a modern conceit.

Consciousness in the Aesthetic Imagination

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  • J.F. Martel
| 11 Jul 2016 Filed Under:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

What can art tell us about the nature of consciousness? Or maybe the question is better framed in McLuhanian terms: What is the message of the medium of art with regard to the nature of consciousness?

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