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Styles, forms and the use of exhibition space to create meaning. Unit 35: Producing Video Installations. ?. 1. What does the word narrative mean? 2. Using that meaning, what do you think non-narrative means?. Narrative form. Tells a story The story is what drives the film
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Styles, forms and the use of exhibition space to create meaning Unit 35: Producing Video Installations
? 1. What does the word narrative mean? 2. Using that meaning, what do you think non-narrative means?
Narrative form Tells a story The story is what drives the film Most commercial cinema
Non -Narrative form Alternative films Film / Video art Experimental 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
Omar Fast Where would you install the film ‘5000 Feet is the Best’? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89kGfEvwXok Extra research clip – (watch from 3:36) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uHbDtThKXo
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller The Paradise Institute
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller The Paradise Institute Using forced perspective, they made it look as though the cinema had many rows of seats, but it only had 2. The whole cinema fits into this box, which is then installed into the gallery 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…. Where would you put ‘Double Vision / Transitions’ by Peter Campus? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar99AfOJ2o8
Single channel Shown on TV, in a cinema, using a TV monitor or a projection on a screen Exploring the medium of film / video itself i.ePeter Campus Double Vision PHYSICAL THEORY Styles of Video installation Installation Using multi screens, combining video with sculptures/images/performances. Questioning the audiences’ assumptions of what conventional cinema is i.e Janet Cardiff Christian Marclay
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 ShigekoKubuto Susan Hiller Marie Jo Lafontaine
Tacita Dean HarunFarocki http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGv71UqPPVc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WWk3jGEFwI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lefvPUYGvi0
Article on art film • http://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2013/sep/12/steven-bode-film-video-umbrella-art