Pentium History of Audiovision: The History of Avant-garde Film 2

Course unit code:

373PDV2

Course unit title:

Pentium History of Audiovision: The History of Avant-garde Film 2

Mode of delivery:

zkouška

Range:

4/T

Type of course unit:

Study plan Animovaná tvorba - bakalář – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Dokumentární tvorba - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Animovaná tvorba - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Scenáristika a dramaturgie - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Režie - bakalář – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Režie - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Kamera - bakalář – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Kamera - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Produkce - bakalář – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Produkce - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Audiovizuální studia - bakalář – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Střihová skladba - bakalář – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Střihová skladba - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Zvuková tvorba - bakalář – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Zvuková tvorba - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Fotografie CZ - bakalář – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Fotografie CZ - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Scénografie - film a televize (Mgr.) – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Audiovizuální studia - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Fotografie CZ - magistr: restaurování – compulsory optional subject

Level of course unit:

Year of study

předmět nemá určen ročník studia

Semester when the course unit is delivered

letní

Number of ECTS credits allocated:

2

Garant předmětu:

Name of lecturer(s):

Study Objectives:

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the field of experimental and avant garde film.

Mode of delivery:

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Pokračování v seznamování s filmy daného tématu (avantgarda).

Recommended optional programme components

Course contents:

Topics:

1. The American Avant Garde of the 1940-50s:

People: Maya Deren, Sidney Peterson, James Broughton, Willard Maas and others.

Spiritual tendencies in American abstract film. Abstract films (Harry Smith, Jordan Belson, Dwinell Grant, James and John Whitney)

Key concepts: II. Avant garde The San Francisco Renaissance, batik film, hand-made film, trance film, Mythos-poetic film, CFA - The Creative Film Foundation, Art in Cinema, Cinema 16.

2. The American film underground of the 1960s:

People: Shirley Clarke, Andy Warhol, Robert Frank, Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith and others.

Key concepts: New American Cinema, Film Culture, Fluxus

3. Jonas Mekas:

Films: Guns of the Trees, The Brig, Diaries, Notes & Sketches (Walden, 1969, 180 min; He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life, 1985, 143 min), Gideon Bachman: Jonas

Key concepts: Film Culture, Filmmakers Coop, Anthalogy Film Archives, Instant structuralization of realty, flash and freeze

4. Poetic directions in the American Avant Garde of the 1960s:

People: Marie Menken, Stan Brakhage, Takahiko Limura, Carolee Schneeman, David Rimer and others.

Key concepts: closed eye vision, abstract expresionism, action painting

5. Found-footage a Collage film:

People: Bruce Conner, Stan Vanderbeek, Larry Jordan

Key concepts: found-footage, collage, assembly, expanded cinema, moviedrom

6. American structural film of the 1960s:

People: Paul Sharits, Robert Breer, Michael Snow, Tony Conrad, George Landow, Hollis Frampton

Key concepts: structural film, single-frame film, flicker effect

Study materials:

Stanislav Ulver: Západní filmová avantgarda, Čs. filmový ústav 1991

Experimentální film - Sborníky textů k cyklu 26-29. LFŠ v Uherském hradišti

Ljubomír Oliva: Podzemí USA, in Světová literatura 1969, s. 87

Maya Derenová: Kinematografie jako tvůrčí využití reality, in Iluminace 3/1999

Scott Mac Donald: Rozhovor s Jonasem Mekasem, in Iluminace 3/1999

Martin Čihák: K teorii strukturálního filmu, in Iluminace 3/1999

Peter Gidal: Teorie &definice strukturálního/materiálního filmu, in Iluminace 3/99

P. A. Sitney: Visionary Film. The American Avant-Garde 1943 - 1978. New York 1974, revidované vydání 2001

Malcolm Le Grice: Abstract Film and Beyond, London 1977

Hans Scheugel (Ed.): Ex Underground Kurt Kren und seine Filme, Wien 1998

G. Jutz, P. Tscherkassky (Ed.): Peter Kubelka, PVS Verleger, Wien 1995

Sborník textů: Hladné oko, Bratislava 2001

Victor A. Grauer: Brakhage a teorie filmové montáže, in Iluminace 3/1999

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Assessment methods and criteria

Language of instruction:

Czech

Work placement(s):

Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.

Course web page:

Note:

This course takes place every two years. It is set for the 2011-2012 school year.

Further information:

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Animovaná tvorba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Dokumentární tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Animovaná tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Scenáristika a dramaturgie - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Režie - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Režie - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Kamera - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Kamera - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Produkce - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Produkce - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Audiovizuální studia - bakalář (qualification subject, faculty subject, optional subject)
• Střihová skladba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Střihová skladba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Scénografie - film a televize (Mgr.) (compulsory optional subject)
• Audiovizuální studia - magistr (qualification subject, faculty subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - magistr: restaurování (faculty subject, optional subject)