Kira Muratova: Astenicheskiy sindrom

Subject guarantor:

Marek VAJCHR, Vilém Hakl

Name of lecturer(s):

Marek VAJCHR, Vilém Hakl

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Dramaturgy analysis and definition of specific construction elements of the chaotic structure of „The Asthenic Syndrome.“ The basic of the analysis will be outlined in the introductory lecture, the main work will be in group discussion in which students will be inspired to forming their own treatment.

Mode of study:

Classes

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Before the class it is necessary to study the film „The Asthenic Syndrome“ with the below mentioned study material and create a viewpoint on both.

The study material will be sent to registered students via email, please inform the lecturer in advance: vilem.hakl@gmail.com

Recommended optional programme components:

No recommendations.

Course contents:

carnival of The aim of the course is a dramaturgical analysis of Kira Muratova's film The Asthenic Syndrome (1989) which belongs to a remarkable handfull of films which rose out of the chaos of the crumbling Soviet empire and that crumbling and chaos are reflected topically and formally. This year Kira Muratova will be 80 years old. It has been 25 years since the premiere of The Asthenic Syndrome. This anniversary offers a rememberance of this exceptional artist and an assessment of her work which in this film displays precision in this period and a tragic carnival of the ruins of the epoch it depicts.

...a hypothesis comes from chaos, in which all combinations are possible, into which the detective is thrown and whic at first is simple without exit. - Miroslav Petříček

If you don't know how to explain it simply, then you don't understand it well enough. - Albert Einstein

Everything is zga - Ivan Matoušek

Recommended or required reading:

HAKL, Vilém - „Člověk trpící astenickým syndromem je opakem člověka ve stavu euforie“ - FAMU, 2014

DOLOTINA, Kamila - „Kira Muratovová - narušitelka (post)sovětského vědomí“ - FF UK v Praze, Katedra filmových studií, 2008 (vedoucí práce Galina Kopaněva)

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

The examination will be subjected to particular work with plot diversions and the chronology of everyday life, such as the collapse of an epoch of historical time forming expression in the collapse of linear film time. In the fall of an epoch into chaos, there is no appearance of the description of historical events, but laconically through the body, through asthenia of the organizm in a state of crisis - chaos (in the sense of exhaustion of too many life changes, historical changes in reflection). Defined will be primarily those procedures Murat the perceiver mediates the experience of ecstasy mingled with anxiety (that feeling close to the turn of the epoch „end of the world“), arising from the frustrating indeductibility of events that fuel intensified destructive and constructive forces.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit is awarded for module participation.

Course web page:

Note:

Lecturer's CV:

MgA. Vilém Hakl

(22.5.1975 - , The Czech Republic)

2007 - 2012: FAMU, Scriptwriting and Editing Dept (2009 BcA. - 2012 MgA.)

2009- : freelance screenwriter (Česká Televize, Media Pro Pictures) and Film journalist (Film a doba)

2013: doctoral studies at FAMU; research project „Tectonics of a Chaotic Audio-visual Piece.“

Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
15.05.2014		10:00–12:15	Hakl V.	Učebna 7 Lažanský palác		paralelka 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Animation - Master (optional subject)
• Documentary Film - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Documentary Film - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Animation - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Film Directing - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Film Directing - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Cinematography - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Cinematography - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Production - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Production - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Audiovisual Studies - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Editing - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Editing - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Sound Design - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Sound Design - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Photography CZ - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Photography CZ - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Audiovisual Studies - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Restoring of Photogrphy (optional subject)