Alternative Perspectives 2

Course unit code:

311MAP2

Course unit title:

Mode of delivery:

zápočet

Range:

12/S

Type of course unit:

Study plan Animovaná tvorba - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Dokumentární tvorba - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Animovaná tvorba - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Scenáristika a dramaturgie - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Režie - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Režie - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Kamera - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Kamera - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Produkce - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Produkce - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Audiovizuální studia - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Střihová skladba - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Střihová skladba - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Zvuková tvorba - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Zvuková tvorba - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Fotografie CZ - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Fotografie CZ - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Fotografie EN - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Fotografie EN - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Audiovizuální studia - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Cinema and Digital Media - Cinematography – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Fotografie CZ - magistr: restaurování – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Cinema and Digital Media - Directing – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Fotografie EN - magistr: restaurování – optional subject

Level of course unit:

Year of study

předmět nemá určen ročník studia

Semester when the course unit is delivered

zimní

Number of ECTS credits allocated:

Garant předmětu:

Henry Lyman HILLS

Name of lecturer(s):

Henry Lyman HILLS

Study Objectives:

Introduce world quality non-narrative and experimental films to students.

Mode of delivery:

Seminars, screenings, discussion

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

None

Recommended optional programme components

Recommended films

Course contents:

Alternative Perspectives is an intensive viewing class, focusing principally on films that are not seen in other classes in this school, being principally radical, non-narrative, experimental films, sometimes long and often difficult, although certain classic silent and early sound films, which are frequently discussed but rarely viewed, will also be explored, insofar as they represent some of the most innovative departures in film history in the practices of montage (Intolerance) and sound design (Vampyr). As the primary focus of this class is analysis based on the direkt experience of projected works, attendance is mandatory.

1b. Friday, November 26, 10:00-13:00 FAMU Auditorium

2b. Friday, November 26, 15:00-18:00 FAMU Auditorium

3b. Saturday, November 27, 9:00-12:00 classroom 1

4b. Saturday, November 27, 13:30-16:00 classroom 1

additional screening: 19:30 Thursday, November 25, Skolska 28 Gallery, screening of super-8 films by visiting filmmaker SAUL LEVINE

Study materials:

Recommended films

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

class 1b

Isadore Isou VENOM AND ETERNITY

class 2b

visiting filmmaker SAUL LEVINE presents recent work on video

class 3b - before and after Man with a Movie Camera

Dziga Vertov THE ELEVENTH YEAR

ENTHUSIASM

class 4b - Austrian Avant-Garde

Kurt Kren

6/64 MAMA AND PAPA (Muehl)

7/64 LEDA AND THE SWAN (Muehl)

9/64 O TANNENBAUM (Muehl)

10/65 SELF-MUTILATION (Brus)

16/67 SEPTEMBER 20th

VALIE EXPORT

MANN & FRAU & ANIMAL (1970-73)

...REMOTE...REMOTE... (1973)

Kurt Kren

3/60 BÄUME IM HERBST (3/60 TREES IN AUTUMN)

15/67 TV

31/75 ASYL (31/75 ASYLUM)

36/78 RISCHART

Martin Arnold

PASSAGE Á L´ACTE (1993)

ALONE. LIFE WASTES ANDY HARDY (1998)

Peter Tscherkassky

MOTION PICTURE (1984)

OUTER SPACE (1998)

Albert Sackl STEIFHEIT I+II (1997-2007)

Assessment methods and criteria

Students must keep a JOURNAL of experimental films they see, both in class and outside. This should include sufficient information to convince me that you have seen the films, plus commentary indicating that some of what you have seen has given you some thoughts. Plagiarism from the internet is not acceptable and will result in failure and ridicule. These are due (by e-mail) the end of the last week of classes. If you use Windows, please send as PDF file.

Language of instruction:

English

Work placement(s):

Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.

Course web page:

Note:

HENRY HILLS (http://www.henryhills.com/)

a 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow, has been making dense, intensely rhythmic experimental films since 1975. Owing to a

personal involvement in film scenes in San Francisco in the 70?s & 80?s & in New York from the 80s to the present, and his activities as a curator, he has a personal relationship with almost all the major figures in the Experimental Film movement. He is intimate with the evolving concerns and thus can present a first-hand history, both anecdotal and theoretical. His own work, which seeks abstraction within sharply-focused naturalistic imagery, the eternal within the temporal, and the ethereal within the mundane, promotes an active ttentiveness through a relentlessly concentrated montage. He brings a long association with various other art scenes as well, including ?language? poetry, the ?downtown? mprovised music scene, and post-Judson postmodern dance. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, was included in the Whitney Museum ?The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000? program, and screened in last year?s New York and San Francisco film festivals. A DVD of his 5 selected 16mm films is available on Tzadik (http://www.tzadik.com/) and his feature-length theater document JOHN ZORN/RICHARD FOREMAN - ASTRONOME - A NIGHT AT THE OPERA has just been released (also Tzadik). He is currently working on a multi-screen HD installation based on footage shot on his train commute between Vienna and Prague.

KEN KOBLAND (http://www.kenkoblandfilms.com/home3.html)

has been actively producing films and videos since the early 1970s. Through metaphor, provocation and association, Kobland often explores the historical meaning, critical context, and received notions of a particular site or place. He has also collaborated on a number of films with the legendary NYC experimental theater company The Wooster Group. He worked for many years as a cinematographer, shooting films on Louise Bourgeois, Chuck Close, and Joan Mitchell. He has received support from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, the American Film Institute, the NEA, DAAD, etc. He lives on the Bowery in New York.

SAUL LEVINE (http://saullevine.com/home.html)

a legend of small gauge filmmaking, Levine has taught at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston for over 30 years, influencing several generations of filmmakers, and programs the longstanding Mass Art Film Society. Since 1964, he has made over 80 films and videos. Levine?s work is noted for its incorporation of splice marks, percussive editing, nconstrained camera movements and spontaneous formal accidents. This distinctive style, informed by a background in the blues, poetry, and radical politics, produces ?exquisitely kinetic,? and often very beautiful cinematic experiences. His work is included in the recently released amazing box set, Treasures from the Archives IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986. "Saul Levine is the foremost dissenting filmmaker in America.? -P. Adams Sitney

Schedule for winter semester 2010/2011:

	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 2010/2011:

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)