DATES
Kunstuni Linz | 330.009 Apparatives Experimentieren
FRI 03.03.2023 – 10:15–14:00 – Introduction | Zeitbasiertes Wohnzimmer (DO0458)
FRI 05.05.2023 – 10:15–14:00 – Input / Workshop | Zeitbasiertes Wohnzimmer (DO0458)
FRI 12.05.2023 – 10:15–14:00 – Input / Workshop | ZV Seminarraum (DO0425)
FRI 26.05.2023 – 10:15–14:00 – Workshop / Internal Presentation | ZV Seminarraum (DO0425)
FRI 23.06.2023 – tba – special screening at the Österreichisches Filmmuseum Vienna
& End-of-Semester Presentation in June (tba)
MOVIES – for all available movies click here
Tasks
☆ Themroc (Claude Faraldo, 1973)
☆ The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse, 1956)
☆ Die allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit (Helke Sander, 1978)
☆ Cities (Katja Pratschke, GustavHamos, 2011)
☆ Sans soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
Other
☆ Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Forster, 2006)
113 min, English version
The main plot follows Harold Crick (Will Ferrell), an IRS agent who begins hearing a disembodied voice narrating his life as it happens – seemingly the text of a novel in which it is stated that he, the main character, will soon die – and he frantically seeks to somehow prevent that ending. The film was shot on location in Chicago, and has been praised for its innovative, intelligent story and fine performances. Ferrell, who came to prominence playing brash comedic parts, garnered particular attention for offering a restrained performance in his first starring dramatic role.
☆ Réponse de femmes: Notre corps, notre sexe (Agnes Varda, 1975)
7 min, French version, English subtitles
What does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A group of women, beautiful or not, young or not, gifted with motherly instinct or not, answer before Agnès Varda's camera.
☆ Tag eines unständigen Hafenarbeiters (Leonore Mau, Hubert Fichte, 1966)
13 min, German version
The Day of an Unemployed Dockworker narrates the daily routine of a non-permanent worker and his family in Hamburg's port milieu. The film, produced by WDR, consists of black and white photographs by Leonore Mau and three short moving image sequences. The commentary text picks up on the language of the dockworkers, which Hubert Fichte got to know in the Hamburg cellar bar Die Palette and later processed in his 1968 novel Die Palette. Fichte and Mau lived and worked together from 1962 onwards; the photographic films they made are little-known treasures of West German television history.
☆ (nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton, 1971)
38 min, English version
The film is composed of black-and-white still photographs taken by Frampton during his early artistic explorations which are slowly burned on the element of a hot plate, while the soundtrack offers personal comments on the content of the images, read by fellow artist Michael Snow. Each comment/story is heard in succession before the related photograph appears onscreen, thus causing the viewer to actively engage with the 'past' and 'present' moments as presented within the film.
☆ Borgate (Lotte Schreiber, 2008)
15 min, English version
Schreiber consistently transfers Don Bosco, which was designed by Rome’s urban planning department, into rigidly framed images and sequences of serial montage. In the interplay of these mainly static shots and relaxed pans across facades and structural details, combined with quotes from Pasolini and Fellini to Antonioni, Borgate produces a visual and acoustic showcase of failed urban utopias. All this is underlined by Bernhard Langs symphonic composition, which gives the petrification of the images a wholly dramatic component. This animation is reinforced by abrupt intrusions of video fragments in violent motion, resembling what seem to be splinters from a real space in the aesthetic filmic space.
More to come…
TEXT, LITERATURE and LINKS
⇒ For all available e-books click here
⇒ Holly Rogers and Jeremy Barham. The Music and Sound of Experimental Film, 2017
⇒ Jutz Gabriele. Audio-Visual Aesthetics in Contemporary Experimental Film, 2016
⇒ Elisabeth Weis and John Belton (Eds). Film Sound – Theory and practice, 1985
More to come…