Publication in the Diário da República: Despacho nº 6320/2018 - 28/06/2018
4 ECTS; 2º Ano, 1º Semestre, 60,0 TP + 3,0 OT , Cód. 817714.
Lecturer
- Gonçalo Cardoso Leite Velho (1)(2)
(1) Docente Responsável
(2) Docente que lecciona
Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Objectives
a) Develop a semi-historical path by Experimental Cinema, with emphasis on the 20th Century.
b) Understand the techniques, motives, developments and contributes
c) Understand the relationship between artistic movements and authors
d) Encourage the development and experimental authorial
e) Empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, regardless of age, gender, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion, economic or other condition;
Program
1.The complex 20´s. The "crisscross" connection between artistic movements, tendencies and artists. Futurism, Dada, surrealism and the coexistence of different art forms: dance, painting, poetry, music, sculpture, fashion and literature. Deep analysis of the French and German Avant-Gardes. The soviet experiments. Abstract film, Cinéma Pur and Absolut film. Film as an art form, non-narrative.
2.The cinematographic impressionism. Experimental cinema as mass cinema. The film's relationship with modern musical composers. Symbolism and abstraction.
3.The influence of psychoanalysis. The inexplicable logical of dreams. the roots of surrealism last until present days.
4.The invention of sound film massifies its existence and pushes experimentalists in the way of a new documentary approach. The British GPO.
5.The lead role of USA in this Avant-Garde. The democratization of equipment - the 16mm camera. Abstract montages and deconstructed narratives. Author documentary, direct cinema.
6.The film of marginalities, of aggressive performance, of confrontation. The counter-cultures. Warhol and popular culture.
7.After Underground populism, it was time to search for new visual and cognitive ideas, related to a structure and a process. Experimental film enters a new philosophical territory. Combines premeditation and chance when shooting. Perception sensorial intents with the audiences. British structural-materialism.
8.Fluxus film mainly focused on visuals and abandoned structure in favor of simplicity and anti-art. Fluxus often referenced film by humorously and playfully. Fluxus diminished the importance of ?the social elite and institutions,? and silenced the notion of art as a skill, profession, and ?a commodity..
9.Post modernism turned into a difused pluralism. The last unified experimental film movement.
10.Art cinema - Derek Jarman and Peter Greenaway. Elctronic Arts and Video-art. Young British Artists.
Evaluation Methodology
The evaluation at all times is carried out through filmed exercises delivered in the Doctrino platform. The works are proposed throughout the school year, following the contents taught.
Only assignments delivered up to the deadline stated in the Doctrino platform are counted.
During the Exam, Appeal and Special periods, the set of all proposed works must be delivered.
The classification results from the weighted average of the works, according to the following values:
Assignment 01 -Visual Poetry 10%
Assignment 02 - Abstractionism 10%
Assignment 03 -Surrealism 10%
Assignment 04 - Psychodrama 10%
Assignment 05 - Counter-Culture 10%
Assignment 06 - Underground 10%
Assignment 07 - Flow 10%
Assignment 08 - Structural Cinema 10%
Final assignment - Experimental exercise 20%
Students who in continuous assessment obtain a grade equal to or greater than 10 values are exempt from the Exam.
Bibliography
- Adams Sitney, P. (2002). Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Audrey Foster, G. e Winston-Dixon, W. (2002). Experimental Cinema, The Film Reader. London: Routledge
- O'Pray, M. (2003). Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions. New York: Columbia University press - Wallflower Press
- Rees, A. (2011). A History of Experimental Film and Video. Londres: British Film Institute
Teaching Method
A - Lectures
B - Film screenings with debate.
c - Film exercises
Software used in class
Not applicable.
