The Image at Rest, The Image in Motion 2

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Subject guarantor:

Jan DAŇHEL

Name of lecturer(s):

Jan DAŇHEL

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Awareness of the issues and uniqueness of the creation process in whch has favored sterile artifacts is now being lost. Taking into account the latent potential of film which as a like a continuously regenerating language, enables and ucovers.

Mode of study:

moderated discussions.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Student ability to perceive of film as a live organism considering all issues which the study of a living manifestation brings with it.

Course contents:

A comparative seminar that traces the dynamic relations between the language of film and other language systems. It pays particular attention to the difference between alphabetic thought (language in the narrow sense of the word) and thought in images (going beyond the standard semiological interpretation). The seminar advances the idea of thinking about film as a process and sets it against the reductive perception of film as an artefact.

Recommended or required reading:

List of recommended literature::

Antonín Artaud, Divadlo a jeho dvojenec

Gaston Bachelard, Psychoanalýza ohně

Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida

Robert Bresson, Poznámky o kinematografu

Lewis Carroll, Alenka v říši divů

Gilles Deleuze, Film 1: Obraz-pohyb

Vratislav Effenberger, Realita a poesie

Vratislav Effenberger, Surovost života a cynismus fantasie

Jean Epstein, Poetika obrazů

Vilém Flusser, Za filosofii fotografie

Zbyněk Havlíček, Skutečnost snu

Iluminace, časopis pro teorii, historii a estetiku filmu

Vlastimil Jiřík, Film-řeč-obraz

Vlastimil Jiřík, Dialektika kinematografického obrazu a malířského díla

Christian Metz, Imaginární signifikant-psychoanalýza a film

Arthur Rimbaud, Verše

Jan Švankmajer, Hmat a imaginace

Jan Švankmajer, Síla imaginace

List of recommended films:

Robert Bresson, Peníze

Oscar Fischiger, München - Berlin Wanderung

Jean-Luc Godard, Weekend

Jean-Luc Godard, Křestní jméno Karmen

Jean-Luc Godard, Bohužel pro mne

Nicolas Humbert-Werner Penzel, Step Across the Border

Miroslav Janek, Nespatřené

Carlos Saura, Starý dům uprostřed Madridu

Jan Švankmajer, Kostnice

Jan Švankmajer, Zánik domu Usherů

Agnes Varda, Štěstí

Wim Wenders, Stav věcí

Assessment methods and criteria:

70% attendance.

Course web page:

Note:

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Schedule for winter semester 2017/2018:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2017/2018:

	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	room 311 Room No. 311 (Lažanský palác) DAŇHEL J. 17:20–18:55 (paralelka 1)
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Mon	17:20–18:55	Jan DAŇHEL	Room No. 311 Lažanský palác		paralelka 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Editing - Bachelor-1718 (required subject)
• Editing - Bachelor - 1718 - 3y (required subject)