Experimental animation 2

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Subject guarantor

Matouš SVĚRÁK

Name of lecturer(s)

Matouš SVĚRÁK

Learning outcomes of the course unit

1. Acquainting the students with the history, development and ramification of experimental animation and to define its ambiguous borderlines with more commercial productions on one side and fine art on the other.
2. The introduction to the world of unlimited possibilities of self-expression through the media of animation, opening the students minds to new ways of narration and processing of the media of animation through practical exercises and mutual debate.

Mode of study

Year's study of animation

Prerequisites and co-requisites

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Course contents

The purpose of this course is to introduce the students with the rich world of experimental animation, with its history, wide expansivity and blending with other forms of media and with its relationship to fine art and poetry. This course should also inspire the students to see the medium of animation from a different perspective and teach them to work without the limitation of previously learnt rules and stereotypes of filmmaking.

Lecture with screening and debate, consultation of practical exercises

Recommended or required reading

R.Russett, C. Starr: Experimental Animation: Origins of a New Art

H. Smith: The Avantgarde in the American Vernacular

J.W. Goethe: Theory of Colors

L.Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

W.Kandinsky: Concerning the Spiritual in Art

M.Rothko: The Artists Reality: Philosophies of Art

A.Breton: The Surrealist Manifesto

W.C.Williams: Spring and All

E. Bishop: North and South

Assessment methods and criteria

Full attendance, completion of practical exercises

Note

None

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Schedule for summer semester 2020/2021:

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