I wrote something on Michael Morris here:

https://filmint.nu/hermeneutics-expanded-aesthetic/

Michael



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> 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?
>>> 
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> Kelvin Ke Jinde
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