Syllabus
1) Film before 1910 - avant-garde, experiment, etc.
2) The film project of modernity. Cinematography of novelty, photogenie, expression, absolute film, cinema pur.
3) Cinematography between media, intermediality of the 1920s, film on paper, performative film
4) Practical teaching
5) Surrealism
6) Infrastructural symphonies, the city and mechanisms
7) Practical lessons
8) Deconstruction of forms and new genres of the 1960s
9) Structural Film, Limits of the Medium
10) From expanded cinema to immersive environments
11) Practical training
12) The archival turn in the art of the 1990s and early 2000s
Annotation
The course focuses on film in 19th and especially 20th century art. It will show how this new medium aroused interest among artists and led them to experiment.