It’s early morning on a Monday, 10am to be exact. After taking a semester off, I hadn’t willingly woken up for anything before 11am. Yet for the first time in 8 months I did, and did it with excitement for my first class of the semester, Memory Identity and Neighbourhoods.
We were taken through a general over view of what the studio would be covering, which was:
- Mapping out neighbourhoods
- Documentary production practise
- Convention of visual language
- Storytelling techniques
- Art of the interview
- Curating place
We also looked at experimental documentaries, one called ‘Nanook of the North’ which was the first documentary ever made and ‘Man with a movie camera’ by Dziga Vertov which was lyrical, poetic and stylised. We also took a look at ‘the Human Scale’ which is an exploration of urbanisation in civilisation on a grand scale.
In conclusion our tutor Kim, asked us a key question to consider on the way home; what makes you band to a place?
My answer is familiarity and memories.
