Bruce McClure: PROJECT IN THE ABSENCE OF A CAMERA

Course unit code:

311MPACA

Course unit title:

Mode of delivery:

zápočet

Range:

2/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 Erasmus – 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:

Illustrated Lectures

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

The only prerequisite for these illustrated lectures is curiosity and a willingness to heed provocations made from somewhere between things we already know.

Recommended optional programme components

Course contents:

In the 1990´s 16 mm projectors were being relegated to a technological yard sale of hobby horses for aficionados of the quaintly obsolete. This hybrid of incandescent and mechanical paradigms delineated in a roomful of people with a screen, loudspeakers, some film and audio equipment is a deceptively simple machine. It is, however, a powerful tool to ensconce, escape, transpose, reflect, amplify, compress, deflect and obstruct. These are some of the operative verbs that the projector enacts in cinema´s ancient suite of reception. During these meetings at FAMU our attention will be given to the projector as a performative instrument and primary agent in the conversion of matter into energy. Film, meanwhile, will be recognized only as the projector´s sprocketed analogue serving in support of an engagement in this cinematic metaphor of human consciousness. Here the camera recedes to the vanishing point rendered superfluous by a pact of immediacy between all those present in a room where every seat is the best in the house.

Saturday, October 15: 10 am - 1 pm, 2 pm - 5 pm

Sunday, October 16: 10 am - 1 pm, 2 pm - 5 pm

Classroom 1

Study materials:

Announced by teacher.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Assessment methods and criteria

Credits will be based on attendance, a single sheet of notes, drawings or diagrams and a brief presentation by each participant based on their notes and observations. The sheets will be made available for reproduction and distribution during Sunday´s meeting.

Language of instruction:

English

Work placement(s):

Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.

Course web page:

Note:

Bruce McClure´s exploitation of the film projector for its capacity to produce both pictures and sound has enabled him to bridge from ?cinema? to the music hall performing at events and festivals dedicated to both the eyes and the ears. In 2009 he was invited to perform during Throbbing Gristle?s shows in Brooklyn and Chicago. He has won numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2011) and The Herb Albert Award in film and video (2008) enabling him to give full attention to his projection performances since 2008 .

Schedule for winter semester 2011/2012:

Datum	Den	Čas	Tutor	Místo	Notes	Č. paralelky
15.10.2011		10:00–17:00	HEJTMANOVÁ J.	Učebna 1 Lažanský palác		přednášková par. 1
16.10.2011		10:00–17:00	HEJTMANOVÁ J.	Učebna 1 Lažanský palác		přednášková par. 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)
Erasmus (optional subject)
Cinema and Digital Media - Directing (qualification subject, optional subject)
Fotografie EN - magistr: restaurování (optional subject)