Surrealism
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 311SUR | Z | 2 | 2/T | English |
- Tutor:
- Pavel MAREK
- Synopsis:
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Instructor: Pavel Marek
Course Time: Thursday 14.00 - 15.35 Room U6
Contact: pavel-marek@volny.cz
Office Hours: By Appointment
Course description:
An Introduction to European Surrealism focusing on film. Surrealistic ideas about the purity of movies, Bunuel´s revolts against the society and church, German Deluc´s imagination, and Antonin Artuad´s theories and their applicability to film language will be covered. Jan Svankmajer´s Transmutations of the Senses, films: Food and Death of Stalinism in Bohemia, etc. will be analyzed and discussed.
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- Study Objectives:
- Outline and Syllabus:
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Class Schedule:
Week 1 - The definition of surrealism
Week 2 - Surrealistic films and surr. manifesto
Week 3 - Psych Automatism and Imaginative Techniques
Week 4 - The Dream Trauma and Obsession
Week 5 - Sigmund Freud and his Interpretations of Dreams
Week 6 - Principle of Analogy and Collages
Week 7- Marquis de Sade the ?grandfather of surrealism? and Giuseppe Archimboldo, the ?first surrealistic painter?
Week 8 - Contemporary surrealist film activities
Week 9 - Autosexualism and Psycho-eroticism in surrealistic cinema
Week 10 - Surrealistic Creativity = Alchemistic Process of Transmuting Material
Week 11 - Film Collage and Conclusion
Week 12 - Final Exam
- Study materials:
- Note:
- Schedule for winter semester 2008/2009:
- The schedule has not yet been prepared
- Schedule for summer semester 2008/2009:
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06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon Tue Fri Thu Fri - The subject is a part of the following study plans:
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- Fotografie EN - bakalář (optional subject)
- Fotografie EN - magistr (optional subject)
- Cinema and Digital Media - Cinematography (qualification subject, optional subject)
- Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting (qualification subject, optional subject)
- Cinema and Digital Media - Directing (qualification subject, optional subject)