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Thematic -Navigating Borders and Contours: From Direct Address to Fuzzy Narrators

with Tina Bastajian

Synopsis

This thematic will interrogate in theory and praxis the mutable contours of narrative strategies from early cinema, documentary practices, YouTube instructional clips to data driven speculative scenarios. A variety of approaches will be explored such as appropriating and re-positioning the conventions of live narrative “lecturers" or “explicateurs" from the silent era that coalesce with more contemporary practices of what is commonly known as the performance lecture. Interventions within and beyond moving image online archives will provide an initial platform in which to create short moving image and sound works and fuzzy hybrids thereof.

Topics-by DAY

Monday: Locating the fuzzy, the unreliable

10:00-11:30 Introduction

• Outline of the thematic:

Strategies & Goals

• Reading assignment/Discussion

(break-away groups / main group)

11:30-11:45-BREAK

11:45-12:45

• Clips to screen/Discuss

12:45-13:45 Lunch break

13:45-15:00

• Screenings TBD

15:00-15:30 BREAK

15:30-17:30 Praxis

17:30-18:30 Dinner Break

18:30-20:30 Film screening for forthcoming assignment