Course: Experimental Film

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Course title Experimental Film
Course code KSKA/EXFIM
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study 2
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Havas Michael, M.A.
Course content
Image by Vilem Flusser. Film shot as an image - proportion. Time of the shot. Optical drawing of the image. Perspective: linear, colour, hieratic. Perspective in film. Kinethic perspective. Image - symbol. Colour - colour symbolism. Philosophical and sensual definitions of basic colours. Movement. Movement by Vladimír Suchánek. Movement as a key principle of drama. Movement as a spiritual space-time continuum. Composition - editing. Art composition of a shot. Editing composition. Sound.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Methods of individual activities, Projection, Graphic and art activities
Learning outcomes
The objective of the course is to (by studying particular films) partly cover the different attitudes to experimental film. The objective of the course is to acquire the basic knowledge on experimental film and shooting as well as the basics of the film language, based on explanation of terminology and its applied use.
Students will be able to use basic knowledge of experimental film and work with camera as well as the basics of film discourse based on the explanation of the concepts and their applied use. Film accepted a lot of these features and transformed them into a new shape, specific for the film. The choice of the films depended on the development of the film language but also on the use of various techniques, e.g. digital material. Abstract film, the first and second Avant-garde, pure film, structural film, etc.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Creative work analysis

Active participation. Fulfilment of given tasks.
Recommended literature
  • ELIADE, M. Obrazy a symboly. Brno: Computer Press, 2004.
  • EPSTEIN, J. Poetika obrazů. Praha: Herman a synové, 1997.
  • FLUSSER, V. Za filosofii fotografie. Praha: Hynek, 1983.
  • HITCHCOCK, A., TRUFFAUT, F. Rozhovory. Praha: Český filmový ústav, 1987.
  • SUCHÁNEK, V. Topografie transcendentálních souřadnic filmového obrazu. Olomouc, 2002.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Social Anthropology (2013) Category: Social sciences 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Social Anthropology (2016) Category: Social sciences 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer