[Frameworks] Film production courses for installation and expanded cinema?

[Esperanza Collado]

Dear Joel,

I also teach a class titled ‘Experimental Film’ and I divide the contents
into (1) experimental film as such (contemporary and historical view but
also we do cameraless experiments and super8 filmmaking), (2) paracinema,
installation and exhibition cinema, and (3) expanded cinema and film
performances. For the last two parts, I show students works by other
artists and, if possible, we experiment things in a spacial setting (one of
the exhibition spaces in college). I have been teaching this for almost 10
years now in a fine arts college in Spain. Also I give some expanded cinema
workshops at MA level here and there. So I guess I can say yes to your
question, and in fact I have tried to do this from early days where there
was practically no equipment in those environments.

For the experimental film class, which is run on the last course of the
degree (more focused students), I ask students to present two works in
order to evaluate them: one is a film (made on film with or without camera,
or even on video) and for the other work my proposed theme is going “beyond
the screen”. I have proposed this idea a few years and it’s really
stimulating to see the results students come out with. They are invited to
use any discipline or combine projection with other expressions.

This year I have actually developed some expanded cinema projects with
students and it’s been very satisfying to see them happen outside of the
university.

At the moment I have two particular students who are getting more and more
serious at filmmaking/photochemical practices and expanded cinema
performances.  I hope the number will keep growing!

Best,

Esperanza

El El mié, 15 dic 2021 a las 3:03, FrameWorks Admin <frameworks at re-voir.com>
escribió:

> Dear Joel, interesting question.
>
> I teach experimental film and also interactive media and I encourage
> students to try making film installations or video installations or
> performances using film/video and I have had a couple of good experiences
> (one student painted on the screen on which she was projecting while being
> interviewed live about the process by a recorded interviewer on a second
> screen; one student presented as a final film a pair of sneakers he was
> wearing on which he had painted patterns with special invisible paint that
> protects them from discoloration explaining that over the next year the
> image would appear as he wore them out; another projected QR codes on
> several screens that the audience would use to trigger different images on
> their own phones; another projected super-8 and video on screens at
> different angles, etc). Most students however take the easy way out and
> just make a quick video, something abstract or “personal.”
>
> This is a film department in the art college of a Buddhist university.
> Most students want to learn a skill to get a career in the film industry or
> else to become a director. Only a few are serious about a career as an
> experimental filmmaker or a gallery artist. The department provides classes
> in film history and theory, production, and experimental film/video and is
> known as a traditional film school with a reputation of being one of the
> top three in the country (Dongguk University, South Korea). In the same art
> college courses are also offered in painting, sculpture, photography and
> theatre, and there is some exchange between those students too.
>
> All the best,
> Pip Chodorov
>
>
>
> On Dec 15, 2021, at 8:15 AM, Joel Schlemowitz <joel at joelschlemowitz.com>
> wrote:
>
> For those of you who teach filmmaking, I’m curious to know if you cover
> the making of film/video installation works to be shown in a gallery
> setting, or the creation of expanded cinema projection-performance work in
> any of your courses?
>
>
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