Moving Images II

Catalog description

Moving Images II is a praxis course that provides students with a critical examination of moving image practices as a medium-specific discipline at the intersection of Visual Art and Experimental Film/Avant-Garde Cinema. Using Gilles Deleuze’s Cinema 1 The Movement Image as a theoretical foundation, the course examines the mobile camera and montage as two essential kinetic elements of time-based media. The class will survey a variety of moving image works by filmmakers and artists from France, Germany, Russia, Taiwan, Canada, and the US, and read texts by film theorists such as Sergei Eisenstein, Christian Metz, and Trinh, T. Minh-Ha to contextualize Deleuze’s film theory in a broader context. Building on Beginning Film/Video, and through in-class lectures, course readings, and studio work, students will further their understanding of narrative and non-narrative moving image practices in single-channel formats. Students will continue to shoot and edit film/video works using professional equipment and software, and are required to critique the work of their peers and their own work. Different time-based works are examined in class to provide the framework and vocabulary for students to articulate their own film/video investigations. . Prerequisite: ART-SHU 306 (Moving Images or Moving Images I); ART-SHU 301 / ART-SHU 9301 (Introduction to Photography I or Photography I) Fulfillment: IMA/IMB elective.