User:Aitantv/Thesis

Reading List

• 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"

Watch List

• Food Inc. (anti-corporate food industry film)

Meeting 01 - 25.05.22

• "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

Natasha Tutorials 02 - 24.11.22

• 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

Natasha Tutorials 03 - 08.12.22

• Yael Davids - performance artist - potential interviewee
• morning of 21st send what you can
• close reading of relevant works 1000 words
• bare in mind other political genres of sci fi -
• share research strategies
• drawing on a wide range of media - ensure that it doesnt lose focus

Natasha Tutorials 04 - 21.12.22

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.

Natasha Tutorials 05 - 13.01.23

STRUCTURE

1. 1 previous work - analysing explaing your language
2. 2 key themes (food diaspora identity) in response to this idiosyncratic language
3. 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. 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.