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Reading List

GOT IT // Annemarie Mol, Eating in Theory (Duke University Press, 2021), 125.
Grace Dillo, Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction (2012)
Louise Erdrich’s novel Future Home of the Living God (2017) - sci-fi
Corvus (2015) by Harold Johnson - sci-fi
Larissa Lai’s latest novel, The Tiger Flu (2018) - post-hardware future, where plant seeds become technologies and the world has shifted entirely to wetware, cell culture, and herbology.
Alondra Nelson’s 2002 Social Text issue on Afrofuturism - coinage of the term afrofuturism
Marianne Hirsch, The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (Columbia University Press, 2012)
Jonathan Lethem (2007) 'The Ecstasy of Influence' Harpers Essay
Walter Benjamin "The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction"
Georges Perec (1974) "Attempt at an Inventory of the Liqiud and Solid Foodstuffs Ingurgitated by Me in the Course of the Year Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Four"
Azoulay, A.A, (2019) Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, Verso Books, London

Assesment recommendations:

James Tiptree Jnr. (Alice Bradley Sheldon – concept of intermediary/hidden identity)
Eve Tuck and C. Ree, A Glossary of Haunting (2013) (essay on horror films and colonialism)
Dylan Robinson, Hungry Listening: Resonant theory for Indigenous Sound Studies

Food Inc. (anti-corporate food industry film)
Thirst (2009) dir. Park Chan-Wook (Old Boy, Handmaiden, etc.)
Tsai Ming Liang (where no ones DLGs to camera)
Host, Parasite
Eraserhead, dinner scene
Festen
Bela Tarr - film about banquet with homeless - https://www.eyefilm.nl/nl/programma/bela-tarr/125976
Mika Rottenberg - food re-production
Valie Export - internal performance
Yusron Fuadi, Skull
Wanuri Kahiu, Pumzi
Nelson Makengo, Theatre Urbain
Pere Portabella 'El Sopar' (1974) - collective discussion, political action/activism, people meeting, preparing dinner, and eating
Uncle Boonmee - haunting dinner party - Apichatpong
Flux Gourmet, Peter Strickland
Chris Marker, Sans soleil (using the VO as a way of creating another layer of character)

"The presentation of a text as a body of written work" / "a report on your research and practice"
can flow to narrative flourishes
balancing free jazz with analysis
creating your own discourse, use the language of your discourse
I: Aracde Project by Walter Banjamin, Uncreative Writing by Kennith Goldsmith
Why not use time as a spatial procedure? The space of the text can represent time, and the text can be a pre-recorded narrated experience
Therems: first person perspective; subjectivity; live action narration; slippage shapeshifting; remediation; body memory

go into these personal areas
use the thesis as a place
11th Dec - cooking interview - the host cooks - technical choices why did you go that route? - go deep with 3/4 interviewees / refine strategies - the subject could interview you too, spin the gaze - self-interview - both wearing body cams -
SURVEILLANCE (Architecture, Body, Society) - Visibility, Hypervisibility - Who gets to walk around unnoticed?
British Asian - Barnoo Kapil - 'the vertical interogation of strangers' - devised
Mofrodat
Analysing own work - best way to go deeper into the practice - connecting it to a wider context - the particular as a vehicle for the universal - Chris Kraus, autofiction - why does this theme come up? what techniques were used?
'The Years'
Former theses - Filiona 'Indigenous Gaze' 2020
bring the problems in the project - the uneases about claiming - the thesis can help with this unease -
Plan for the First Chapter - outline the entire structure of the thesis / close reading of three works / just has to be a section / what to push against /
send draft chapter

GENERAL NOTES

if diaspora, food and identity are themes, explain why. and if science fiction is the medium. why? why science fiction?
more explicit explanation of framework
it works when you take responsibility - speak from the position of I - Avoid dictating universal essay mode
dont be afraid to acknowlegde the idiosyncracy of the project. explore your imaginative film langauge (not sci-fi); this fabulous language. How can I use and expand on this language for the essay film? The indiviudal can't help but be expressed in the work.
the core content/knowledge of the thesis and project are already there - your relationship with diaspora/food/identity and your film language. The process is one of expanding this core, as opposed to finding more references and different lines of inquiry. Things that interest you (concepts, films, scripts) can then feed into this core of personal material.

STRUCTURE

1 previous work - analysing explaing your language
2 key themes (food diaspora identity) in response to this idiosyncratic language
3 dogme - the practical principles that will guide the project, and the inspiration for these principles. draw out technical elements from previous films that could feed into the dogme
4 close reading of existing shooting material, test footage,

READING LIST

theory relating Derrida 'Of Hospitality'(interview, Algerian Jewish);
Jewish fables;
Isaac Bashevis Singer, short fiction stories;
Isaac Babel (plays, film scripts)
tutors are excited by the project and by what has already been filmed. Have faith in the practical choices and outcomes of the project.

how are you going to expand the thesis with the notes youve made
puzzle - collage - montage
inventory of different elements - interviews timecodes, scripts excerpts, notes on reading, process journal minutae details, fantastical fiction, youtube clips
to-do: let's see some process journal

camera - good cinematic hybrid -
using mixed media approach - also connects the three chapters thematically and content wise
use Hungry Host as a core conceptual framework - keep bringing it back to these different themes
intro - consider the 'hungry host' in a more concrete way - setting out for the reader the key to this experimental, exploratory process - lock it to the 'I'
Parasitism - geneorosity of the host country; 'something for nothing',
don't feel the need to blend everything so it's homogenous
re-read: Carrier bag of Fiction (food, appetite, storytelling)
food writing is good
keep the journal stuff more journal - if it becomes too essayistic bring it out of the
cooking and eating as labour / reproductive labour (feminism 70s) house
keep track of the
next step: introduction + contents page: fill it up some more