Visually precise and politically amorphous, the absorbing documentary "Abendland" opens with a self-reflexive image of a surveillance camera perched over a green field.
"Divisadero, from its achingly pretentious title to the last narcissistically self-reflexive image ('some birds in the almost-dark are flying as close to their reflections as possible') left me cold," wrote Caroline Moore in the Spectator.
The union hardens an image of reflexive, intemperate resistance while facing a steely politician with high approval ratings who devours news cycles.
As someone who has struggled with a malfunctioning brain, I find Goya's idea of "sleeping reason" reassuring, especially when I couple it with an image of a reflexive somatic response to fear.
Despite the appearance of a coldly analytical detachment, Antonioni is an existential filmmaker who is one with the world that he films, with the world as he films it, and his view of the world enfolds, with a reflexive intensity, the very cinematic images that he creates.
The proposed metric fits well to robotic navigation using omnidirectional vision sensors, because it has very important properties: it is reflexive, compositional and invariant with respect to image scaling and rotation.
This trick starves readers hungry for visual details and at the same time makes us face our reflexive hunger by stuffing us with junk images.
The concluding sequence an inquiry into the public image of one Pierre Étaix has a disarming reflexive loopiness, holding up mirrors to mirrors and sending the viewer off in free fall.
When the object was moved so that a bigger reflexive eye movement was required to stabilize the image, the activation of the climbing fibres in response to the error led to a change in the response of the Purkinje cells, as expected.
In this regard, the circuits represent a new form, in the shape of the circuit diagrams themselves; a new reflexive method, in the collaborative production of those images; and new content, in their description of those novel collaborative practices.
And that's the doubled, reflexive beauty of photography: in addition to that of the image itself, the overriding beauty derived from the understanding that it's the result of a cosmic accident.
