Mark Allan Kaplan

Continuing from Part I, we can also use the Quadratic Methodological Lens array to take us deeper into each of the four methodological/knowledge domains of the creation and reception of the cinema (Art, Craft, Theory, and Business), exploring the various methodological paradigms and constructs that tend to be used by cinematic artists, technicians, theorists, and business people, including: Methodological approaches to writing, directing, acting, cinematography, sound, production design, and editing; critical, historical, and theoretical analysis; and producing, distribution, marketing, exhibition, and artist and property representation and negotiation.

We now shift focus to that space between theory and practice where we find the constructs, paradigms, and approaches used to examine and enact our world and the world of cinema, using what I am calling the METHODOLOGY LENS. With this lens we can attempt to look at what methodological constructs are behind how we look and how we act, what method or approach we are using at any given moment to comprehend and relate to self, others, and world.

In the 11th installation of the Integral Cinema Studio series, Mark Allan Kaplan uses the film Altered States to illustrate the 'Energetic Lens' of integral film interpretation...

In the 9th installation of the Integral Cinema Studio series, Mark Allan Kaplan continues his pioneering exploration of film and cinema through an integral lens. Here he uses the film Inception to demonstrate the 'embedding of altitudinal structures within layers of waking and dreaming realities'....