"Are you there?" uprootedness and "the story behind the place" in Atom Egoyan's Calendar
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The article is on the spatial-temporal articulation of "unbelonging-ness" in Atom Egoyan's film Calendar. The film stresses the contrast between the "originary" place, Armenia, which is visited by a photographer and his wife, and the Toronto apartment of present, idiosyncratic uprooted life. The Armenian landscape and its ruins are rendered as either footage or the pictures in the "calendar" of the film title; this stresses "Armenia"s difference – as past, as observed space and time under the touristic gaze of the photographer – from Toronto's "presence", a hic et nunc which is nothing but a glossy if empty space filled in by long conversations in foreign languages on the phone, messages left on the answering machine, and the untimely writing of letters the only destination of which is that they will not arrive at their destination. Drawing on Deleuze's notion of the time image, I shall also consider the way the stylistic choice of different cinematic modes of representation of Armenia and Toronto respectively, as well as the "epistolarity" of the film (in Naficy's terms), redefines the imagined relation between the place of origin and the space of present life.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".