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Overview

On this online evening course you'll study films that question and critique dominant power, ideologies and institutions in society, providing views from the margins, not encoded in hegemonic norms.

You'll explore聽a range of practitioners and practices, and different geographical and political contexts.

The course focuses on creative and nonconforming film and video approaches. Approaches聽that reclaim聽cinema as a praxis of dissent and resistance, a medium with the radical potential of challenging and disrupting the status quo, and a home for the marginal, oppressed, and subaltern identities and bodies.

You'll聽explore聽films聽which聽have experimented with cinematic codes in the pursuit of a deeply personal, formally experimental, and politically challenging language. Films that question dominant and disciplinary gazes on class, gender, race and sexuality. You'll look聽at ethics of imperfection, practices of self, process of becoming common through cinema.

Classes are held on Wednesday evenings, from 7pm to 9pm, over 6 weeks.

Who it's for

This course聽is open to anyone who is interested in the subject. You don't need any particular knowledge or experience聽to attend.聽

Course content

Week 1 鈥� Feminist cinema

Topics covered include:

• The male gaze
• Feminist realist debate
• Avantgarde as counter-cinema
• Various artists聽

Week 2 鈥� Queer cinema

Topics covered include:

• Blurring the boundaries of documentary
• Fiction and video art
• Subjectivity as a frontline strategy
• Hybrid mix of poetry and politics
• Memory and history
• Bodies and emotions
• Various artists including Derek Jarman and Jack Smith

Week 3 鈥� Black cinema in the UK, US and France

Topics covered include:

• Post -avantgarde
• Collective fillmmaking
• Melvin Van Peebles, Spike Lee, Isaac Julien, Sankofa, Ceddo, Black Audio Collective /John Akomfrah

Week 4 鈥� Third cinema and 鈥渋mperfect鈥� cinema in Latin America, Africa, Palestine, Kurdistan

Topics covered include:

• Group Medvedkine
• Glauber Rocha and the aesthetics of Hunger
• Fernando Solanas and the idea of the South
• Ousmane Sembene and the use of griot
• Michel Kleifi and Yilmz Guney amongst others

Week 5 鈥� Independent political documentary in India and slow cinema in South-East Asia

Topics covered include:

• Lav Diaz
• Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Week 6 鈥� Indigenous and Aboriginal cinema

Course structure and teaching

This course will be delivered via online distance learning. You'll need to have your own computer or other internet-connected device. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please get in contact at聽shortcourses@opencitylondon.com

Cost

The standard price for this course is聽拢180. The following concessions are also available:

• Students: 拢150
• UCL Students/Staff: 拢145

This course offers bursary places. Please check our聽聽to see if you are eligible to apply.鈥�聽

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Course team

Ludovica Fales

Filmmaker and artist Ludovica Fales has been making independent documentary and experimental films since 2007, following on a BA-MA in Philosophy in Rome and Berlin. After an MA in Documentary Direction at the NFTS in 2011, she travelled around the Mediterranean area, across the Balkans and in the Middle East, making films and working closely and collaboratively with vulnerable communities around the world and using filmmaking as a conflict resolution tool.

Adele Tulli

Adele Tulli is a filmmaker and an academic researcher interested in documentary experimental practices, as well as in gender and queer studies and visual anthropology. In 2018 she has completed a practice-based PhD at Roehampton University in London, exploring subversive film aesthetics within queer and feminist contexts.

Course information last modified: 9 Sep 2024, 15:36