NMED 3850

Experimental Film Production

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Today’s Class…

Course Outline Review

“Ask the Experts”

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• Experimental film [or "experimental cinema“ or media art] is a term used to describe a range of film or videomaking styles that are concerned with avant garde approaches to the moving image. Many film scholars have argued that experimental film is one of the major modes of filmmaking, along with the narrative film, the documentary film and the animation film. Like these wide ranging categories, a single definition of what constitutes experimental film therefore does not adequately cover the many differing approaches, philosophies and techniques that have informed its history. It has been argued that experimental film is in fact a film genre and that many of its more typical features - such as a non-narrative, impressionistic or poetic approaches to the film's construction - define what is popularly understood to be "experimental".

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• Experimental film concerns itself strongly with form.– It considers mainstream cinematic values

and offers a formal critique of mainstream practices and pushes boundaries of working with the moving image.

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• In this course students will be assigned six (6) experimental productions over the course of the semester– The primary function of each assignment is

to bolster each students portfolio or “reel” to increase a student’s chance to distribution and exhibition in the Canadian experimental film industry.

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• In this course students will be assigned six (6) experimental productions over the course of the semester– Week 2 will be devoted to an overview of the artist

statement in experimental film production– Weeks 3 – 10 will be devoted to single-channel

production and critiques– Weeks 11 – 13 will be devoted to installation or web-

based adaptation and critiques– Week 14 will be devoted to portfolio organization and

presentation

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• In this course students become familiar with the formal experimental film production forms:– Single-channel– Installation– Web-based Exhibition

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• Today’s Task: Ask the Experts…– I will be having a conference call with Pablo de Ocampo the

Programming Director of the Images Festival, Canada’s largest experimental film and video festival and Wanda Vanderstoop the director of Vtape, Canada’s largest video art distributor.

• Please email me a question you would like me to ask them on your behalf before September 8th. Send your question to dana.inkster@uleth.ca and I will bring their responses back to the classroom.