Expanded Cinema

Tutor:

Martin BLAŽÍČEK

Synopsis:

Instructor: Malcom Le Grice, coordinator: Martin Blažíček

Assignment: 1 credit for 100% participation and written essay 1-2 pages, please email to martin@blazicek.net

Annotation: in english - http://cas.famu.cz/openeye

Date and Time:

20. 10. 2009, 10:35-12:20 projection room FAMU, Smetanovo nabrezi 2, Praha 1

23. 10. 2009, 16:45-19:00 Institut intermedii, Technicka 2, Praha 6

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Outline and Syllabus:

The eminent British filmaker and theorist Malcom Le Grice will devote his lectures to the phenomenon of expanded cinema in particular with respect to British film and the creations of the Filmaktion Group (Le Grice, Raban, Eatherley). British expanded cinema was, in the 1970s, a unique fusion of cinematography, kinetic arts and abstraction. It opened the way for films as particular time-space constructions and, as well, initiated its environmental quality. The research field became a projection of itself, cinematic situations and cinema conventions. An alternative look at the cinema experience ushered expanded cinema into its new position, which film and video occupy in cultural, social and architectural spaces.

The filmmaker will present short films for two and three screens in the IIM space.

Joseph´ s Newer Coat

Cherry

Wier

DENISINED - SINEDENIS

Even the Cyclops Pays the Ferryman

Self Portrait - After Raban Take Measure

Autumn Horizon

Matrix 73-06

Water Lilies After Monet - a sketch 2008

Traveling with Mark

Digital Aberration

Berlin Horse

Malcom Le Grice

Born in 1940, Malcom Le Grice crossed over from painting in the mid-1960s to film and computer art. His films, performances and videos have been shown, among others, at Document 6, The Museum of Modern Arts in New York, The Louvre in Paris, X-screen in the Museum of Modern Art Vienna and in collections of the Georges Pompidou Centre, Royal Belgian Film Archive and the Deutsches Kinemathek. Le Grice is the author of a number of key texts about experimental film, among others, „Abstract Film and Beyond“ (MIT 1977), in 2001 a collection of his writings was published „Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age“ (BFI). Currently he is Professor Emeritus at the University of the Arts London, where he founded, with David Curtis, the British Artists Film and Video Study Collection.

http://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/malcolm_le_grice/essay(1).html

Study materials:

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Further information:

This course is an elective for all AMU students

Schedule for winter 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
Mon
Tue
Fri
Thu
Fri

Schedule for summer semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

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)