I know I said there wouldn’t be a reading this week, but…
If you’re having trouble writing reflections, have a read of this small excerpt on iterative cycles of making from a great book on creative art practice and research, even if you’re not having trouble have a look anyway.
Just a quick reminder about what’s happening in week seven and eight.
Week 7
Wednesday 6th September – Discussion on some ways to think about what you’re making + workshop on reflective writing to get us thinking a little deeper about what we’re doing for task 3. We’ll also work out the running order for the pitches.
Thursday 7th September – Individual group consultations, which you booked into here. This is to get some constructive feedback on your task 3 experiments and what you’re planning on pitching as your task 4 project.
Week 8
Wednesday 13th September – Pitches to panel.
Thursday 14th September – Pitches to panel, with some time to write-up your reflection to Part II of Task three.
Friday 15th September – Task three due at midnight.
Based off Ivens’s The Bridge and Rain which both study the movement of a thing, this exercise (found here) is about capturing rhythm and movement.
Details here.
ruhr from Sofia Marramá on Vimeo.
…which responds to your questions from week five can be found here.
The key question to think about is are you making media which notices patterns which are out there? Or, are you creating patterns with what’s out there to notice new things?
What are the differences between Benning’s Ruhr (above) and Guy Sherman’s Filter Beds in terms of how they notice?
Both of the films discussed by Ivens in this week’s readings can be found online:
Joris Ivens – De Brug (The Bridge, 1928) from Avant-Garde Cinema on Vimeo.
Joris Ivens – Regen (Rain, 1929) from Avant-Garde Cinema on Vimeo.
In response to the week 5 Silke Panse reading…
In response to…
In his classes, he famously asks his students to forget their personal narratives and any attempts at dramatisation and to merely experience what is happening for a long time in a not very eventful place – Panse (46)
Here is this long-take exercise.
Today, you will be working on task two for Seeing the Unseen, where you will work closely with your pair with the media you have collected in each other’s locations. Please bring your media to class.
I will be going through the noticing, reflection and refining blog posts by showing you the rubric and marking sheet that I have now made available.
Tomorrow, we will be discussing the Bettina Frankham reading on poetic documentary and doing an exercise based on this reading with the media you have collected for task two. I will also be introducing you to some creative works which adopt a poetic approach to documentary.
If you have any questions regarding Task Two post them as comments here:
