Portrait of a quarry.
Ideas 1
Chairs. As things, objects, practice, ideas, material thinking.
Notes from the Side
Isabelle has her three bits of exciting Frankham (Bettina’s a friend of mine, wait till I show her these…) Luke has his. Isabelle has a good potted summary of today, particularly like the observation that we’re making contemporary bestiaries, andRead more…
Back of Envelope Notes
A field guide too…. Letters from…. A list of …. Lars von Trier, the dogma manifesto and the five obstructions. things have FACETS these facets are ‘called’ by other facets we see some facets of things only therefore we only ‘see’ parts of thingsRead more…
Rounding Up
Isabelle discussing the unstudio, what happened, how it happened, and what was made. “All things equally exist, but they do not exist equally” Be good to return to that. Michael notes that the unstudio was a ‘freeing class’. That’s anRead more…
Canberra, Catch Up
For those interested this is my talk from the Canberra symposium I went to last week. It was about interactive documentary. Getting it ready, Easter and so on, means I’ve fallen behind around here. So here goes. Thomas has hisRead more…
Studio 6.1
Week 6. Half way. Wheels seem to have fallen off the wagon and right now I’m not certain how to get any of them back on! We discussed the next key assessment task (A list of 100 concerns). I outlinedRead more…
An Unstudio
While the teacher was away, the students will play. They discussed where they are up to, then chose one quote, and discussed it. This is, so far, the best thing this studio has created. Chapeau those who where there. TheRead more…
Recommended about ANT
This is an essay I found recently that uses Latour’s actor-network theory in relation to documentary. I haven’t finished reading it, but the first few pages where they talk specifically about actor-network theory – what it is and how itRead more…
Bordwell and Thompson
This is an extract from Bordwell and Thompson’s Film Art An Introduction. It is where they write about what they call ‘nonnarrative’. The section immediately after discusses experimental film. This is relevant to us as it helps with some contextRead more…