Experimental Film

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373EF ZK 3 4T Czech winter

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Learning outcomes of the course unit

A survey of the historical development of global and Czech experimental film from the 1950s to 90s.

Mode of study

Lectures with screenings

Prerequisites and co-requisites

None

Course contents

This course provides a general historical excursion into experimental film between the early American underground and the end of the 1980s in Europe. Each lecture presents one historically limited period through key films and filmmakers. The first part of the course covers various aspects of earl American experimental film (trance film, mythopoetic film, ....) and further into their structural, abstract and collage forms in the 1970s. The second part is devoted to important European historic trends, such as structural-materialistic (England - 1970s), The Viennese formal school and its continuation in the creations of artists in the 1980s. Particular chapters are devoted to experimental film of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Japan.

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Recommended or required reading

Čihák, Martin. Ponorná řeka kinematografie, NAMU 2013.

Sitney, P. A. Visionary Film. The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000. Oxford University Press, 2002 ed.

Ulver, Stanislav. Západní filmová avantgarda, ČSFÚ 1991.

Rees, Al. History of experimental film and video. BFI 1999.

Assessment methods and criteria

Knowledge of films shown, a report on a selected topic from lecture material of 3 standard pages, oral exam.

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