Hi Albert & everyone: I’m the person Nicole Baker was referring to, teaching a “handmade film” unit as part of a course I call Low Tech Cinema at Portland State University. This is a 400-level course offered through the School of Art + Design and attracts mainly 3rd and 4th year Art majors, as well as the odd student in another major who’s attracted to the lo fi possibilities the course title promises (these students are often musicians in bands etc). Like others on this list, my course includes units on glitching, consumer cameras, iPhone, “dead” media like slide projectors and so on. I have found the 16mm handmade film unit to be an enormously successful way to get the Art students in this particular population excited about moving image media. Most Art students in this population enroll in Art School to paint, draw, sculpt - to work with their hands and materials. They are not usually stoked about working on computers for long periods or working with technology (of course there are exceptions). I start Low Tech Cinema with the direct animation/scratch film unit because they love it, they bring their own paints, sandpapers, collage materials, and other tools and go to town with the process. Some go deep and continue to work in this medium in my courses or through independent studies with me in subsequent terms (we’re on ten-week terms). Those students who go deep really do explore our humble 16mm black and clear leader as a material - soaking it, treating it, doing things to make it more porous. The rest of our Video/Time-Based offerings in our small Art program are in video art, video installation, animation (with computers). Lately I’ve been thinking about blowing up all this curriculum to get the 16mm handmade film into Art students’ hands earlier.
Cheers! Julie > On Feb 12, 2020, at 8:29 AM, rebecca meyers <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Albert! > > In the Intro to Production course I teach every fall at Bucknell University, > the students make all their projects on digital video, but we spend a week > early in the semester on 16mm. One day we go out with a Bolex and while half > of the group is out filming, the other half is making cameraless films, and > then they swap (it's direct animation with black leader, clear leader, > scratching tools, markers and there's also a bunch of cut up prints > [educational films, mostly] that they can work with as found footage). > > For my class, it's a means of introducing students to 16mm, to handling it, > etc. And a way to show them about some of the history of experimental/artist > made film, including animation (we watch a few things as well). > > Rebecca > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 9:10 AM Becka Barker <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > I include at least one day of cameraless in my intro animation, experimental > animation, and intro film classes at NSCAD university here in Nova Scotia. I > always have a critical mass of students interested in trying it, since most > of them have never seen celluloid. Our university has a fairly > interdisciplinary orientation overall; our students come at film and media > arts from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds (from sculpture and textiles > to creative writing and design), so having a very tactile, direct, and > accessible way of creating moving images is always a winner here! I could be > biased, though, since cameraless is an important part of my own studio work > anyway. :) > > I like seeing so many affirmative responses in this discussion! > > Becka > > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 7:59 AM Albert Alcoz <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone know if cameraless film is a common subject at university? > > I am investigating the role of cameraless film in the studies of Fine Arts > and Media Studies. > > Most of cameraless film workshops are organized by art centers, alternative > spaces or private film schools but i wonder the role it has within the > university. > > Is it taught as a technique that can be applied in the audiovisual industry > (such as video clips, advertisements, fiction animated films, etc.) or as a > line to develop artistic projects or personal film developments? > > Would be great to know personal experiences concerning teaching this > animation technique related to experimental cinema. > > Best, > Albert > -- > http://albertalcoz.com/ <http://www.albertalcoz.com/> > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > <https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks> > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > <https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks> > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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