Early Cinema and the Avant-Garde 5

Tutor:

Jitka Hejtmanová

Synopsis:

Instructor: Martin Arnold (coordinator Jitka Hejtmanova)

Date and Time: April 16-17, 10:00-13:00 + 14:00-17:00, FAMU, Room 2

Assignment: 2 credit for 100% participation and written essay 1-2 pages, please email to jitka.hejtmanova@famu.cz

Prerequisites:

Study Objectives:

Outline and Syllabus:

MODULE 2/2: The Classical Avantgarde & the Postmodern Moment

(Cinema in between the Amusement Park, the Movie Theatre & the Gallery)

The nice thing about experimental film was that, apart from offering a series of great films, a thoroughly commercial location, the movie theater, was being occupied for a radically different kind of image production.

Today the cinema, as a projection space for movies, has long since lost its authority. Galleries, museums, and many other spaces, as well, of a lesser degree of established culture, have assumed an equal side by side with it.

Since a great deal of fantasizing, discussing and theorizing is going on in all of these locations, it is important to start thinking about lines of tradition in dealing with images and sounds, and to develop genealogies. All the while being aware that all lines of tradition are brittle, and that genealogies, too, are not always to be trusted.

In MODULE 2/2 we will explore early works by video artists working in the museum and gallery system, such as Nam Jun Paik, Bill Viola, Gary Hill, and compare them to the works of artists of the next generation, such as Douglas Gordon, Stan Douglas, Pierre Huyghe, Eija-Liisa Ahtila and Candice Breitz.

Martin Arnold (born 1959 in Vienna, Austria) is an experimental filmmaker known for his obsessive reworkings of found footage. He is also a founding member of the Austrian film distributor Sixpack Film. Arnold studied psychology and art history at the University of Vienna. He has taught filmmaking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the San Francisco Art Institute, the Academy of Fine Arts in Frankfurt, the Kansas City Art Institute, Bard College, and at SUNY Binghamton. His films are distributed by Canyon Cinema in the United States and by Sixpack Film in Austria.

More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Arnold or http://www.r12.at/arnold/

Study materials:

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2009/2010:

	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
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The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Animovaná tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Dokumentární tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Animovaná tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář (optional subject)
• Scenáristika a dramaturgie - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Režie - bakalář (optional subject)
• Režie - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Kamera - bakalář (optional subject)
• Kamera - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Produkce - bakalář (optional subject)
• Produkce - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Audiovizuální studia - bakalář (optional subject)
• Střihová skladba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Střihová skladba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - bakalář (optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie EN - bakalář (optional subject)
• Fotografie EN - magistr (optional subject)
• Audiovizuální studia - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Cinema and Digital Media - Cinematography (qualification subject, optional subject)
• Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting (qualification subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - magistr: restaurování (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Cinema and Digital Media - Directing (qualification subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie EN - magistr: restaurování (optional subject)