Continuing on, we have Ivens The Bridge from 1928.
Joris Ivens is a pioneering Dutch documentary film maker from early last century. Much of his work is poetic and very much situated in his local place. There are two key films that matter to us and as poetic observational… Continue Reading →
Nora wonders about the sort of mesh work her dog is in and makes. Note though, a mesh does not have a centre so your dog (or anything else) is not, cannot, be at its centre. This I find very… Continue Reading →
Non-narrative films eschew or de-emphasize stories and narratives, instead employing other forms like lists, repetition, or contrasts as their organizational structure. For example, a non-narrative film might create a visual list (of objects found in an old house, for instance),… Continue Reading →
Related to some of the things we’ve been reading is what is called ‘critical animal studies’. Work like The Private Life of a Cat is important to this sort of thinking, and a great example of what we’ve been doing…. Continue Reading →
Noticing these, and using them as opportunities for making. This is an everyday video practice that is not just noticing but an aesthetic noticing, and it can change your relationship to what is around you. Really exquisite work Lydia. (And… Continue Reading →
Instead of personal (diary) films they become about your preferred (imagined?) media instrument. A camera, a sound recorder. Similar questions, though the third film would be to imagine it from the point of view of your instrument… Why? Because while… Continue Reading →
In your groups identify one minute of sound you have made and one minute of video. This is what you will present. Place this media in the folder for the crits in the video upload folder on the Google Drive…. Continue Reading →
Trying to work out folders, files and so on is proving confusing. Daniel (Offenburg) has suggested a different way of managing this. It’s a good idea. There are 14 folders, 7 for Offenburg and 7 for Melbourne. All the folders… Continue Reading →
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From Offenburg arrives: While groping to define, provisionally and partly, what a particular concept may mean, we gain insight into what it can do. It is in the grouping that the valuable work lies. […] The grouping is a collective… Continue Reading →