Christian Farrell: CINEMA OF THE WILD

Course unit code:

311MCOW

Course unit title:

Mode of delivery:

zápočet

Range:

3/D

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:

Jitka HEJTMANOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Jitka HEJTMANOVÁ

Study Objectives:

Mode of delivery:

This course will involve screenings, discussions, excursions, and in-class, direct cinema experiments.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Recommended optional programme components

Course contents:

The „art of the wild“ is to see art in the context of the process of nature - nature as process rather than as product or commodity - because „wild“ is a name for the way that phenomena continually actualize themselves.

-Gary Snyder

„The wild“ is often associated with distant and pristine wildernesses - primeval forests, mountain peaks, ocean depths - but „wildness“ - uncultivated, self-actualizing, vital - is present everywhere: in our cities, bodies, and minds. In this module we will explore the wild zone that exists at the meeting place of nature and art, science and poetry, empiricism and imagination. We will view and discuss the work of a range of cinema artists who have focused their lenses upon the organisms and natural processes which are all around us (and within us). Through hands-on experiments and excursions to undeveloped places on the edges of Prague and pockets of open space within the urban neighborhoods of the city we will make our own investigations into the forms and phenomena of the natural world. Guided by an array of visionary artists, amateur scientists, nature poets, and experimental filmmakers (including Albertus Seba, Anna Atkins, Jean Painleve, Erst Haeckel, Susan Derges, Semiconductor, silt, Wilson Bentley, Karl Blosfeldt, Margaret Watts-Hughes, Hans Jenny, August Strindberg, Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou, Willard Maas, Stan Brakhage, J.W. Goethe, Novals, and H.D. Thoreau) we will employ camera-less techniques, direct-cinematic strategies, contemplative experiments, observation, and 'exact sensorial imagination' to meet the wild within this city and within the organic nature of the creative process itself.

October 6 - 8, 2011

Thursday: 6 pm - 9 pm in Classroom 2

Friday, Saturday: 9 am - 1 pm, 2 pm - 5 pm in Classroom 1

Study materials:

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

This course will involve screenings, discussions, excursions, and in-class, direct cinema experiments.

Assessment methods and criteria

Student evaluations will be based on attendance, involvement in class discussions, and participation in in-class experiments.

Language of instruction:

English

Work placement(s):

Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.

Course web page:

Note:

Born in San Francisco, California, Christian Farrell has been living in his wife's hometown of Cesky Krumlov in South Bohemia, Czech Republic off and on since 1998. As a member of the cinema collaborative silt, Christian's films, installations, and performances have been shown throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia at venues including the Whitney Biennial, Sundance Film Festival, New York MOMA, San Francisco International Film Festival, and the Rotterdam Film Festival. He holds degrees in both Film and Philosophy/Religion and has been teaching courses which chart the territory of his overlapping fields of interest since 2001.

Schedule for winter semester 2011/2012:

Datum	Čas	Tutor	Místo	Č. paralelky
06.10.2011	18:00–21:00	HEJTMANOVÁ J.	Učebna 2 Lažanský palác	paralelka 1
07.10.2011	09:00–17:00	HEJTMANOVÁ J.	Učebna 1 Lažanský palác	paralelka 1
08.10.2011	09:00–17:00	HEJTMANOVÁ J.	Učebna 1 Lažanský palác	paralelka 1

Schedule for summer semester 2011/2012:

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)