Styles, forms and the use of exhibition space to create meaning
Unit 35: Producing Video Installations
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1. What does the word narrative mean?
2. Using that meaning, what do you think non-narrative means?
Narrative form
Tells a storyThe story is what drives the filmMost commercial cinema
Non -Narrative form
Alternative filmsFilm / Video artExperimental film making
non-narrative films can include: alternative, poetic, abstract, metaphorical, surrealist, avant-garde, absurdist, musical, anti-narrative, underground, carnival, grotesque, etc.
Christian Marclay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp4EUryS6ac
Exhibition space creating meaning
Omar FastWhere would you install the film ‘5000 Feet is the Best’?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89kGfEvwXokExtra research clip – (watch from 3:36) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uHbDtThKXo
Imperial War Museum
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
The Paradise Institute
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
The Paradise InstituteThe whole cinema fits into this box, which is then installed into the
gallery
Using forced perspective, they made it look as though the cinema had many rows of seats, but it only
had 2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs_fbfOYBkQ
Styles of Installation
There are four styles of video installation which we have been looking at.
Two of the styles are PHYSICAL ways in which video can be installed
Two of the styles look at THEORETICAL ideas about film.
TASK: Using the empty styles sheet and the list of words and phrases, complete the diagram
For example….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar99AfOJ2o8
Where would you put ‘Double Vision / Transitions’ by Peter Campus?
Styles of Video installation
Shown on TV, in a cinema, using a TV monitor or a projection on a screen
Using multi screens, combining video with sculptures/images/performances.
i.e Peter Campus Double Vision
i.e Janet Cardiff Christian Marclay
Installation
Single channel
Exploring the medium of film / video itself
Questioning the audiences’ assumptions of what conventional
cinema is
PHYS
ICAL THEO
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Homework
Read the article interviewing the head of Film and Video Umbrella
Research two of the artists on the ‘Other interesting ways of installing work’ and put your research onto Weebly. Research into their work, a specific installation and why you like it.
Other interesting ways of installing work
Spartacus Chetwynd
Marie Jo Lafontaine
Shigeko Kubuto
Susan Hiller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lefvPUYGvi0
Tacita Dean http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGv71UqPPVc
Harun Farockihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WWk3jGEFwI
Article on art film
• http://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2013/sep/12/steven-bode-film-video-umbrella-art