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Overview

Museums and cultural institutions dedicated to the procurement, study, and display of cultural objects are at a critical moment in their history, as the decolonisation of their ownership, representation, accessibility, and funding are being brought to the forefront. Art Historian Sophie Berrebi succinctly stated,聽鈥淭odays鈥� museums are undergoing a profound mutation that is fed by social, economic, and political factors, which force them to reconsider their mode of action, their routines of collecting and exhibiting.鈥�

Moving a Still Artefact: Film critiques the museum聽led by filmmaker聽Jessica Sarah Rinland聽(Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another), draws from the long and rich thread throughout cinema history centred around collecting and museum collections; sites of cultural significance have proved to be, and continue to be productive subjects for films. Participants will explore various modalities of filmic discourse to create a film produced from their enquiries into museums, the objects that live within them, archival and found footage. By exploring the museum through film 鈥� from an architectural setting or didactic experience, to the subversive 鈥� the workshop will focus on the filmmaker鈥檚 potential to transform these cultural institutions. Expose the 鈥渙ther side鈥� of the museological practice, of collection, knowledge production, disposition and appropriation using the visual and sonic medium of film.

When reflecting on the depiction of cultural objects in聽Statues Also Die聽(1953) 鈥� Chris Marker, Ghislain Cloquet, and Alain Resnais鈥� critique of the ways Western museums decontextualise and display African art objects 鈥� Sophie Berrebi describes how the attributes of film 鈥� image, sound, and montage 鈥� act as revelatory devices, exposing the 鈥渙ther side鈥� of a cultural object 鈥渃reating a rupture in the museum鈥檚 order鈥�. This investigation will allow for reflection upon the history of museums i.e., cabinet of curiosities and private collections, as well as historic house-museums and virtual object and institutional tours.

Who this course is for

This course is aimed at those interested in museums, film, moving image and those outside this realm who wish to discover more about the content this course covers.

Course content

The course outline will be as follows (subject to change):

• Session 1: Intro to films that critique the museum
• Session 2: Display, Archive, Access
• Session 3: The Making of objects and their voice
• Session 4: Site visit and shoot
• Session 5: Replicas and Trade
• Session 6: Repatriation
• Session 7: Presentation and Crits of student work

Teaching and structure

The course will be taught through a mixture of lectures, seminars聽and discussion groups.

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 shortcourses@opencitylondon.com

Cost

The standard price for this course is聽拢195. The following concessions are also available:

• Students: 拢185
• UCL Students/Staff: 拢175

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

Jessica Sarah Rinland

Jessica聽is an Argentine-British artist filmmaker and educator. She is a recipient of numerous prizes including Special Mention at Locarno Film Festival and Best Film at DocumentaMadrid, Primer Premio at BIM 鈥� Bienale de Imagen en Movimiento, Arts + Science Award at Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology鈥檚 Schnitzer prize for excellence in the arts in 2017. Her work has been exhibited at University of Tennessee鈥檚 Downtown Gallery, Southwark Park Galleries, Taipei Biennial, Somerset House and Bloomberg New Contemporaries. She has had retrospectives of her films at the Flaherty Film Seminar, Doc鈥檚 Kingdom, Aricadoc, Eureka Film Festival, Curtocircuito, London Short Film Festival and Anthology Film Archives. Her films are held in the British Film Institute鈥檚 collections. She holds a BA (Honors) in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and a MSc in Arts, Culture and Technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She currently teaches at Harvard Summer School and El铆as Querejeta Zine Eskola.

Course information last modified: 7 Aug 2024, 15:29