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A history of alternatives to commercial movies, focusing on surrealist and Dadaist film, visual music, psychodrama, direct cinema, the film society movement, personal cinema, the New American Cinema, structuralism, Queer cinema, feminist cinema, minor cinema, recycled cinema and devotional cinema. While conventional entertainment films use the novel, the short story and the stage drama as their primary instigations, experimental and avant-garde films are analogous to music, poetry, painting, sculpture and collage.
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Visual constituents of high adventure since the late Victorian era, emphasizing wandering woods, rogues, tomboys, women adventurers, faerie antecedents, halflings, crypto-cartography, Third-Path turning, martial arts, and post-1937 fantasy writing as integrated into contemporary photography, advertising, video, computer-generated simulation, and designed life forms.
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This hands-on class will investigate the cross-overs between science and animation. How can animation communicate abstract ideas? How can science inspire the artist? Students will acquire some fundamental animation skills, and will work on individual and group projects.This class will be suitable for students with an interest either in science or visual art, or both.
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In this course, students start from a 1-3 minute soundtrack. Some students with an interest and ability in music or sound design may generate the track themselves, but students are encouraged to make links with the rich and diverse music scene in the Cambridge and Boston area, including the huge number of Harvard-based groups. Inspired by the soundtrack, students make films which may be abstract or figurative, narrative or free-form, using any animation technique or combination of techniques.
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This course allows each student to make a short animated film, taking it through all the stages from idea to post-production. Open to beginners and experienced animators.
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What is it about the present that is making so many artists interested in the past? How do personal and public memory take form in art, now? This art history/criticism seminar will discuss practices that range from re-staging recent riots to reciting historical speeches, modifying museums to inventing historical figures, as we explore art's current contribution to our understanding of the past.
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Engaging personal and public notions of authorship, veracity, legibility, history and value, this class focuses on exploration and performance in collecting. Students will examine possibilities and patterns to understand choice, advice, intuition and peculiarity with the goal of better communication. Sources include information distribution models, history, exhibitions in and out of art contexts and a focus on comfort. This will aid students in investigations into personal and collaborative projects employing a variety of media, methods and modes.
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A studio course structured around collage as drawing. Students will make presentations focused on historical and contemporary practice in the medium as background to their own artistic production. Projects will emphasize the merger of appropriated and self-made materials, and the combining of imagery, abstraction and text toward a variety of goals. The course will conclude with the application of collage principles to a medium outside of two-dimensional drawing.
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This intermediate level animation class will explore creative potentials, and technical challenges, of combining live action and animation within a single film. Each student will create an individual short film project. At each stage, from early concepts to final grading, we will address the particular possibilities of such fabricated filmic worlds: developing aesthetic approaches, techniques, and a workflow tailored to such projects.
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There has been a shift from the traditional notion of art work to the idea of art project. The art project could be understood as a concept structured in a constellation of different but independent elements, in which the author is able to master not only the implicit creative aspects but also a certain social dimension. We deal with the sequential steps of a photography project: creative conception, documentation, practical realization, and critical evaluation.
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Art of the last fifty years, with an eye to issues facing artists working today. Pop, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Installation, and New Media: in surveying these and other developments in recent art, lecture-based class will address such topics as modernism/postmodernism; changing models of artistic work and artists' identity; and globalization and the artworld.
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A critical and historical survey of the major questions, concepts, and trends in film theory since 1968. Weekly readings and discussion will examine how the study of film and spectatorship have been influenced by semiotics, psychoanalysis, Marxism, postmodernism, feminism, and gay and lesbian criticism, as well as multiculturalism.
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A new generation of French filmmakers has emerged in recent years, including Assayas, Breillat, Denis, and Dumont, among others. They have been instrumental in creating innovative approaches to cinematic narrative, form and style worldwide. Course readings will include interviews with filmmakers, analyses of their films as well as contributions by Deleuze, Foucault, Jameson and Williams which will provide theoretical frameworks for considerations of modernity and postmodernity, gender and sexuality, violence, and ethnicity.
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We are living through a period of remarkable creativity in political expression: from anti-consumerism TV ads to imposter websites; "billboard liberation" to faux corporations, digital hijacking to lifestyle performance. Sometimes labeled art, sometimes not, these activities have sources in both political and art history. In this history/theory seminar we will ask: Where is the line between art and activism today? And how are we to evaluate the efficacy, ethics, and aesthetics of the new hybrids?
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In this studio course we will use photography, film, video, digital media and appropriated or "found" material in the production of our own art works. Participants explore collage, photomontage and pastiche, and editing moving images in video. How do images shift when juxtaposed with one another? How do rhythm, pacing and structure work in moving image art works? We will take in many artists' approaches to image juxtaposition, including those who engage via narrative, association, serial, rebus and photo-roman.
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This course is intended for students who have developed the beginnings of a practice they are prepared to pursue. The motive is to assemble a group of disparate artists who come together to exchange thoughts across disciplines: painting next to photography next to writing next to filmmaking, and so on.
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This course is intended for students who have developed the beginnings of a practice they are prepared to pursue. The motive is to assemble a group of disparate artists who come together to exchange thoughts across disciplines: painting next to photography next to writing next to filmmaking, and so on.
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How well do nonfiction films represent children and childhood? What factors have shaped our views of children? The course will explore these questions from a variety of perspectives, including those of filmmakers, social scientists, television journalists, parents, and children themselves.
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With the elements of composition as a basis, this course utilizes various drawing media in a series of exercises which incrementally construct an understanding and expansion of visual vocabulary. Drawing from life, the model, still-life, photographs and invention will be employed. Although emphasis will be on drawing what you see, the exercises will contribute to an inclusive development of abstract and conceptual principals with an added emphasis on content and subject matter.
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The class explores the work of this seminal Soviet documentary filmmaker, his theory, its international impact, its cultural and political implications, various ways of how Vertov's films and theories are viewed and interpreted nowadays.
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We will analyze films in hindsight of their use of space, architecture and landscape to create emotions and dramatic effects, as well as analyzing how music affects narration in movies. Students will select a scene and film two short scenes on video in different locations, edit them, and compare the effects.
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Introduction to the history and theory of documentary and ethnographic film. A wide variety of works from 1895 to today will be screened and discussed. Different cinematic styles which have been used to depict human existence and the relationships between individuals and the wider cultural and political contexts of their lives will be compared.
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The history of cinema as representation and interpretation of "reality," focusing on masterworks of nonfiction film and video from a variety of periods and geographic locales. Emphasis on the ways in which nonfiction films can subvert viewers' conventional expectations and their personal security. Forms to be discussed include the city symphony, ethnographic documentary, propaganda, the nature film, direct cinema, cinema verite, the compilation film and personal documentary.
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