User:Aitantv/Thesis

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.

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.