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Kamran

Vancouver, Canada

About Me

My Film Blog: Aesthetics Of The Mind

I have a BA in Philosophy and Film Studies from the University of British Columbia. I’m currently based in Toronto, completing my Masters in Cinema Studies at Innis College/the University Of Toronto. I work for the University as a Teaching Assistant, Researcher, and Cinema Studies Representative of the Grad Students Union.

I love music and film, and am particularly intrigued by the (seemingly) inextricable connection between form and aesthetic experience. As a (self-described) phenomenologist – who’s perspective can be most accurately likened to that of Aldous Huxley – I believe that perception is the key to understanding film, and that the experiencing of film is more valuable than films themselves.

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Nathaniel Dorsky

Brilliant man. I'm currently at a conference at Harvard where his films are being shown. He did the Keynote Address, and I spoke with him at length both yesterday and tonight at dinner. Kind of a new hero to me. Can't wait to read my signed copy of Devotional Cinema

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Auteur-driven
Melancholy
Serene & subtle
Deliriously surreal
High Art
Neorealist
Coming-of-Age
Avant-garde

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Adnan X. Khan

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Musycks

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Musycks

17Jun12

HI Kamran I went looking for your Mouchette writing with this link, but couldn't find it? http://aestheticsofthemind.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/mouchette/ Good luck with the studies, I like your taste. cheers, Michael R

Kamran

18Jun12

Thank you. I appreciate that. Odd that the link didn't work for you, since the link you've pasted in your comment works for me. Here's a link to my site where you can find it (There's a clickable link at the top of my profile here too!): http://aestheticsofthemind.wordpress.com/
Musycks

19Jun12

Found it, nice little site you have there. I like your take on it.... two things, for me it's a rape, even though she clings submissively at one point (all the more tragic) and also I read the end as suicide, although the door is left slightly open. Regardless, what a film! cheers, MR

Rui Tenreiro

22Sep11

PS: If you like Tarkovsky — and maybe you know this — watch Shinji Aoyama's Eureka. It's a long film but worth the three or four hours.

Kamran

22Sep11

Sweet, thanks for the recommendation. I'll definitely check it out.

Rui Tenreiro

22Sep11

Actually, I never watched Stalker, not because I didn't want to, I tried twice and they were bad copies, or had such bad subtitling that I gave up. I'd like to enjoy it 'properly'. Thanks for the comment! :)

Kamran

22Sep11

I know what you mean. A film like that deserves to be seen 'properly'. I fortunately got to see it just last week in 35 mm — an imported print they played in Vancouver. I had seen the film 3 or 4 times previously — not to mention the odd scene I watch over and over and over again — but no amount of times could equal the grandeur of seeing it on the big screen in 35.
Rui Tenreiro

22Sep11

oh I'm jealous I must say. The only thing close to that, that I saw on 35mm was Roma and Satiricon. And the 70mm format of Kubrick's 2001. But Tarkovsky must be well worth it!