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Drawing on the research expertise of two members of staff, this advanced comparative module will provide you with an introduction to important works of experimental film, essay film and artist鈥檚 film screened in the cinema, on the internet or in art galleries. The filmmakers to be studied will vary from year to year, but may include Dani猫le Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, Chris Marker, Harun Farocki, Hito Steyerl, Ursula Biemann and Phil Solomon. Set viewings will be interspersed with set Film Studies readings on topics such as essay film, documentary art and gallery film, and with theoretical readings on themes such as war, image capitalism, technology, the Internet, video games and the archive.听
Recommended preparatory reading
Alter, Nora M. and Timothy Corrigan (eds). (2017). Essays on the Essay Film. New York: Columbia University Press
Balsom, Erika. (2013). Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Elsaesser, Thomas (ed). (2004). Harun Farocki: Working on the Sight-lines. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Elwes, Catherine. (2015). Installation and the Moving Image. New York: Columbia University Press. Rascaroli, Laura. (2017). How the Essay Film Thinks. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Rodowick, D. N. (2007). The Virtual Life of Film. Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press.
Steyerl, Hito. (2012). The Wretched of the Screen. Berlin: Sternberg Press.
Steyerl, Hito. (2017). Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War. London: Verso.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
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This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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