Course overview
This course will consolidate student knowledge of the history of experimental and artist-based media making across the areas of Film, Television and CGI and Digital Media. The course allows students to study in-depth the historic and critical contexts that inform artist-based film and experimental media making. Students will expand their creative, technical and conceptual practice through the production of experimental media artefacts. Through specialised research and conceptualisation, students develop advanced understandings into art-based experimentation that will be used to inform their final project and future production work. Course topics will include: intermediality and the relationship between film and the other arts; the European and the American avant-gardes; underground aesthetics; surrealism; experimental animation; found footage; sound, music and experimental practice; lyrical and trance filmmaking traditions; the audio-visual essay format; contemporary artist film in the gallery space; digital remix and remix cultures.
Course learning outcomes
- undertake in-depth experimental and exploratory study of a particular media form, genre or formal technique
- conceptualise and design a creative artefact which tests the technical and aesthetic boundaries of a media form, genre or technique
- produce an artefact which technically and aesthetically tests the boundaries of a media form, genre or technique and develops advanced creative insight and understanding
- apply professional practice expectations