ARTS 380T Between Art and Cinema (Not offered 2006-2007)
This tutorial will engage visual, kinesthetic, and narrative issues that emerge
from new hybrid forms of contemporary art and cinema. Students will look at
recent cinema and gallery-based video installation, and will read criticism that
considers relationships among architecture, landscape, the pictured body, the
body of the viewer, and the phenomenology of the moving image. Some of the
topics to be considered will draw on recent scholarship about traditional cinematic forms: how can the picturing of space and motion produce feeling? How
do the face and the gesture of the body register emotion? How does language
relate to these visual and kinesthetic properties of the moving image? How does
cinema use these elements in the service of storytelling and story structure? Other topics will pertain specifically to the ways in which contemporary installation
art has brought these questions of space, motion, and narrative away from the
forms and architectures of traditional cinema: How do contemporary video
practices relate to histories of cinema, sculpture, and theater?
Format: tutorial. Each week, one student in each tutorial pair will produce a short
work that responds to a particular assignment related to that week's screening
and reading. Students will each realize five video projects, both in traditional
single-screen formats and in multiple-screen installation formats. The class will
also meet as a group for two critique sessions. Lab fee.
Enrollment limit: 10 (expected: 10).