COURSE DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION
| Course Name | Code | Semester | T+A+L (hour/week) | Type (C / O) | Local Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Experimental Cinema | RTC 434 | Spring | 03+00+00 | Elective | 3 | 6 |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Communication |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Prerequisites: | None |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Course Unit: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | - - |
| Course Objectives: | The students are expected to:
• Acquire the knowledge of the history of experimental film, video and new media arts works. • Develop a critical approach to the experimental works. • Enhance the skills in writing on experimental works. • Enhance skills to present and discuss the essays. • Develop skills to conceptualize and produce an experimental work. • Develop skills to present the work in a creative way. |
| Course Contents: | This course will explore the theory, criticism, history, and aesthetics of experimental film/video. Students will be acquainted with the basic theory and practice of experimental film and video as compared to narrative and documentary formats, critical methodologies to analyze and establish an aesthetic appreciation of experimental works, a history of experimental image-making from the 1920s to the present, the interaction between experimental works, artists, audiences, economics, and ideology. By doing so, the course provides students familiarity with and understanding of the practice of experimental film/video necessary to engage with this discourse by creating multiple projects of their own. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: | The history of experimental film, video- and the new media-art will be covered in three phases of its evolution during the semester. The first phases are structured according to the art movements and its reflections in experimental film in Europe and America. These two phases are parallel to the industrial, technological developments but also philosophical, social and cultural changes in these continents. The third phase will depict the feminist filmmakers dealing with auto-portraits, apparatus etc. and structuralist filmmakers in America and Britain. And the last theme will elaborate the new media art and lastly experimenting with VR. Students have to read, write and present each week on the given subjects and films. The proposal of experimental work project will be submitted after the 1st phase. The last two weeks of the semester are planned for the presentation of the final project. Attendance and active participation count up to 10 %. The written response to the readings and films and their short presentations in 10 weeks count up to 20 % The submission and the presentation of the 1st phase of the proposal for the experimental in the 6th week and 2nd phase of the proposal in the 7th week counts up 20 % The final project and its presentation’s assessment by the mentor counts up to 50 % |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATIONS
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Orientation Week (Introduction, course plan) | |
| 2 | Innovation and Curiosity: Georges Méliès | Reading and viewing the related material. Preparation of a response paper. |
| 3 | City and Speed: Dziga Vertov, Walter Ruttman, René Clair | Reading and viewing the related material. Preparation of a response paper. |
| 4 | Dreams and Subconscious: Germaine Dulac, Luis Buñuel | Reading and viewing the related material. Preparation of a response paper. |
| 5 | Absolut Film and Visual Music: Viking Eggeling, Hans Richter, Lotte Reiniger | Reading and viewing the related material. Preparation of a response paper. |
| 6 | Fluxus and Neo-Dada: Joseph Beuys, John Cage | Reading and viewing the related material. Preparation of a response paper. |
| 7 | Lyrical and Feminist, 1960s Stan Brakhage and Maya Deren | Reading and viewing the related material. Preparation of a response paper. |
| 8 | Video art I: 1960-1980 : Nam June Paik and Wolf Vostell, Valie Export | Reading and viewing the related material. Preparation of a response paper. |
| 9 | Video art II: Closed-Circuit Video: Bill Viola, Bruce Nauman, Peter Campus | Reading and viewing the related material. Preparation of a response paper. |
| 10 | Feminist Video-art: Self-portrait, the apparatus and performance: Friederike Pezold, Rebecca Horn, Ulrike Rosenbach | Reading and viewing the related material. Preparation of a response paper. |
| 11 | Structural Film: Michael Show, Hollis Framton, Peter Kubelka | Reading and viewing the related material. Preparation of a response paper. |
| 12 | New Media: Digital and VR: John Rafman, Anish Kapoor, Marina Abramovic | Reading and viewing the related material. Preparation of a response paper. |
| 13 | Final Project Research Presentations | Presentations of the Final Projects |
| 14 | Review Week | Review and Feedback on the Final Projects |
At Kadir Has University, a Semester is 14 weeks; The weeks 15 and 16 are reserved for final exams.
REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED READING
| Rees, A.L. (2000). A History of Experimental Film and Video. London: BFI. |
OTHER COURSE RESOURCES
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
| Semester Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance / Participation | 14 | 10 |
| Project | 1 | 50 |
| Homework Assignments | 12 | 20 |
| Presentation / Jury | 3 | 20 |
| Total: | 30 | 100 |
WORKLOAD
| Events | Count | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload (hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Project | 1 | 60 | 60 |
| Homework Assigments | 12 | 3 | 36 |
| Preparation for Presentation / Jury | 3 | 4 | 12 |
| Total Workload (hour): | 150 | ||
1 ECTS = 25 Hours Workload
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)
| # | PQ1 | PQ2 | PQ3 | PQ4 | PQ5 | PQ6 | PQ7 | PQ8 | PQ9 | PQ10 | PQ11 | PQ12 |
| LO1 | ||||||||||||
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| LO4 |
Contribution: 1 Low, 2 Average, 3 High