Advanced Projects in the Visual Arts: Personal Narrative

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	SCREENINGS	KEY DATES
1	The Roots of Narrative: Lumiere vs. Melies	Melies Films. The Lumiere Brothers. First Films. Maddin, Guy. The Heart of the World.
2	Video Narrative vs. Film Narrative
3	Documentary vs. Narrative	Kuchar, George. VideoDiary. 1987. Huyghe, Pierre. One Million Kingdoms. 2001. ———. The Third Memory. 2000. Islam, Runa. Visit to List Gallery: Rapid Eye Movement.
4	Diaristic Narrative	Rainer, Yvonne. Film about a Woman Who… Calle, Sophie, and Greg Shephard. No Sex Last Night. 1992. Rist, Pippilotti. She’s Not a Girl Who Misses Much. Kim, Sung Kwan. A-DA-DA.
5	Presentations: Assignment #1: Variations on a Scene	Morin, Robert. Yes Sir Madam.	Assignment #1 due
6	Production In-class / Lighting and Re-staging
7	Oneiric Video (Dream Narrative) Presentations: Assignment #1a: Re-staging	Bunuel, Luis, and Salvador Dali. Un Chien Andalou. 16 mins. 1928. Deren, Maya. Meshes of the Afternoon. Tarkovsky. The Mirror. (Excerpt) Friedrich, Sue. Gently down the Stream.	Assignment #1a due
8	Minimal Narrative Presentations: Assignment #2: Dream Sequence Assignment Rough Cut	Sokurov, A. Mother and Son.  Fassbinder. Petra Von Kant. Stan Douglas / Jeff Wall / Gregory Crewdson	Assignment #2 due
9	Beyond the Rules	Sokurov, A. Mother and Son. (Excerpt)
10	Alternative Scriptwriting	Ahwesh, and Sanborn. The Dead Man. Greaves, William. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm. (Excerpt)
11	Editing In-class Production: The Kuleshov Effect Presentations: Assignment #2a: Re-editing of Dream Sequence		Assignment #2a due
12	Mise en Scene (Production In-class) Presentations of Assignment #3: Slice of Life Mini-Narrative (Fictionalizing Reality)	Welles, Orson. Touch of Evil. (Excerpt) Sokurov, A. Mother and Son. Bresson, R. Pickpocket.	Assignment #3 due
13	Introduction to Assignment #4: Deconstructing Narrative In-class Production
14	Individual Meetings	Gibbons, Joe. From High Art to Lowbrow: The Genius (Trailer) and Other Shorts.
15	Individual Meetings	Joe Gibbons selected works Douglas Gordon Richard Foreman Eija-Liisa Ahtila
16	Introduction to Assignment #5: Final Project Narrative Critique	Child, Abby. Mayhem. 1984. Muller, Mathias. Home Stories. Arnold, Martin. Life Wastes Andy Hardy. Tcherkassky, Peter. Outer Space.
17	In-class Production
18	Presentations: Rough Cuts and Assemblies, Dailies, for Final Project
19	Voice-over Narration and Audio Recording Demo: FCP Voice-over, Miking Techniques Presentations: Assignment #4: Deconstructing Narrative Exercise	Kar-Wai, Wong. Chunking Express. (Excerpt)  McQueen, Steve. LiftOff.	Assignment #4 due
20	Presentations
21	Narrative Critique
22	The Game of Form Presentations of Final Project Works-in-Progress	Robbe-Grillet, A. Last Year at Marienbad.
23	Voice-over Narration
24-26	Presentations: Assignment #5: Final Project Presentations	Final Project Screening	Assignment #5 due