Educational Intervention|Group Work|Research Project|Science Capital|Public Engagement

In this module, you will work in groups to develop your communication and collaboration skills by designing a science outreach activity.

You will be working...

Science and Society 2: Reflections in Science Education (NSCI0019)

In this module, you will work in groups to develop your communication and collaboration skills by designing a science outreach activity.

You will be working to develop:

- an individual reflective portfolio based on lectures and site visits related to widening participation and public engagement.

- a group portfolio for the public engagement session.

Gallery film|experimental film|essay film|film theory

Module description

Drawing on the research expertise of two members of staff, this advanced comparative module will provide you with an introduction to...

Experimental Film and Video: Between Gallery and Cinema (LITC0024)

Module description

Drawing on the research expertise of two members of staff, this advanced comparative module will provide you with an introduction to important works of experimental film, essay film and artist’s film screened in the cinema, on the internet or in art galleries. The filmmakers to be studied will vary from year to year, but may include Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, Chris Marker, Harun Farocki, Hito Steyerl, Ursula Biemann and Phil Solomon. Set viewings will be interspersed with set Film Studies readings on topics such as essay film, documentary art and gallery film, and with theoretical readings on themes such as war, image capitalism, technology, the Internet, video games and the archive.

 

Recommended preparatory reading

Alter, Nora M. and Timothy Corrigan (eds). (2017). Essays on the Essay Film. New York: Columbia University Press

Balsom, Erika. (2013). Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Elsaesser, Thomas (ed). (2004). Harun Farocki: Working on the Sight-lines. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Elwes, Catherine. (2015). Installation and the Moving Image. New York: Columbia University Press. Rascaroli, Laura. (2017). How the Essay Film Thinks. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Rodowick, D. N. (2007). The Virtual Life of Film. Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press.

Steyerl, Hito. (2012). The Wretched of the Screen. Berlin: Sternberg Press.

Steyerl, Hito. (2017). Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War. London: Verso.