| Description | This studio course will serve as an exploration of
what are broadly understood as experimental film
and video practices. Encompassing structural film,
eco-approaches, amateur, found film, diary or
personal film, underground, surrealist, queer,
activist and handmade cinema, poetic, DIY,
avant-garde, and embodied making, this course
engages with media forms as material and considers
cinema as process and exploration, rather than as
product or professional mastery. Students will
engage with the history of works that have
challenged dominant modes of operation and explore
the evolution of media structures with a critical
eye. Class activities include screenings and
discussion, hands-on workshops, exercises,
improvisations, challenges, individual and
collaborative projects, assigned readings, and
short reflexive responses and exercises. Working
with a wide range of analogue film, video and
digital media, students will employ a variety of
approaches and emergent philosophical frameworks.
Students are asked to play, engage in creative
risk-taking, encounter perspectives outside their
own, challenge themselves, transgress convention,
get uncomfortable, experiment with new concepts
and techniques, discover new artistic identities,
to practice and think critically about modes of
media production and consumption. In addition to a
series of process-based explorations, students
will develop projects which are grounded in
personalized approaches and practices. Students
will engage in concept development and visual
research and create a written articulation of
their work which includes historical reflection,
contemporary context, and considerations of
reception and the cinematic footprint. Some of the
project work is collaborative, developing
students' multidisciplinary, team-working and
project management skills. |
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