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COURSES SPRING 2009

Film Studies 240

GRADUATE SEMINAR: INSTALLATIONS, PROJECTIONS & DIVAGATIONS (4 units) Tuesdays, 10-1 226 Dwinelle , CCN: 31574 Kaja Silverman

Screening will be on Mondays, 4-6, 226 Dwinelle

This course will be devoted to a range of contemporary artists, all whom make works that are time-based, like cinema, but that are exhibited in museums and galleries, instead of a movie theater: Tacita Dean, Omer Fast, Pierre Huyghe, Sarah Turner, Anri Sala, Isaac Julien, William Kentridge, Anne Walsh and Paul Chan. Some of these artists use film, others rely on digital cameras and computers, and yet others combine one medium with another, but they are all formally inventive and conceptually challenging.

Kentridge will be in residence for a short period in the spring, and Chan will be participating in a public conversation at BAM in February. I am hoping that both will meet with us, and that I can also persuade several of the other artists to visit our class. (Fast, Turner and Sala have all expressed an interest in doing so.)

Most of the works we will be studying cannot be rented or purchased, and I will not be able to lend them out, or make copies of them. We will also discuss some of the shorter pieces immediately after viewing them. The screenings will therefore be an indispensable and non-negotiable part of this course.

Admission by permission of instructor.

 

 

 

 

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