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

[Kelvin KJ]

I am currently teaching an introduction course on film studies and I would
like to include a section on recommended readings and recent works on
experimental film, video art or installations, maybe even your own.

I look forward to any recommendations. Thank you so much.

On Sat, 18 Dec 2021 at 7:34 AM, Esperanza Collado <
esperanzacollado1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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warmest regards,
Kelvin Ke Jinde
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