| Description | Analogue film technologies such as 8, Super-8, and
16 mm film production, analogue audio and VHS have
enjoyed a renaissance amongst artist-practitioners
in a worldwide movement often called Handmade
Cinema, Conceptual Cinema and the old monikers of
Avant-garde, Visionary, Experimental Film, Para-
or Expanded Cinema. Often employing
hand-processing and chemistry, making one's own
filmstock, performance and live presentations,
collectives and co-creational strategies, and even
digital interventions, film and analogue audio are
are utilized and celebrated in concert with
performance and other retro technologies for their
luscious materialities and rich historical
legacies, both locally and internationally. This
course offers a critical overview of the practice
regarding both historical and contemporary work,
and a space to seek the integration of theory and
practice. Safety procedures/ best practices/
sustainability issues will be explored and dealt
with in this course. The optical printer, analogue
titling, interfaces with the digital, and DIY
maker culture will be explored. Topics explored
will include the personal film, found footage and
archival film, ecological approaches, mattes and
composite image creation, analogue special effects
and alternative processing techniques. |
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