I wrote something on Michael Morris here: https://filmint.nu/hermeneutics-expanded-aesthetic/
Michael Michael Betancourt, Ph.D https://michaelbetancourt.com | cell 305.562.9192 | zoom 875 581 4648 https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Betancourt/e/B01H3QILT0/ sent from my phone > On Dec 18, 2021, at 9:32 AM, Kelvin KJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 >> <[email protected]> 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 >>> <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >>>> 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? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Frameworks mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org >> -- >> Esperanza Collado >> www.esperanzacollado.net >> -- >> Frameworks mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org > -- > > > > warmest regards, > Kelvin Ke Jinde > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org
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