ABSTRACT

Grounded in this way of thinking, Jukka Sihvonen takes us even further in Exceeding the Limits because, here, he is in search of a cinema that barely exists. ‘Audiovisuality’ is the name given to this cinema, snippets of which can be detected in the work of Pasolini and Godard, two of the most supreme radicalists cinema has ever come up with; and furthermore, Sihvonen finds a potential of audiovisuality in the electronic media, due to their ‘energetic mode’, so to speak-‘energy’ is Sihvonen’s key metaphor for delineating this potential in the ‘electronic space’.