Der Unterricht wird aus vier verschiedenen Elementen bestehen:
1. Die künstlerische Betreuung erfolgt jeweils vier Monate durch einen Filmmacher.
September-Dezember: ROBERT FENZ Gäste: Thomas Draschan, Gustav Deutsch
Termine: 27.9.-1.10.2006, 19.10.-22.10.2006, 16.11.-19.11.2006, 7.12.-10.12.2006
Jänner-April: PIP CHODOROV Gäste: Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Mara Mattuschka
Termine: 18.1.-21.1.2007, 15.2.-18.2.2007, 15.3.-18.3.2007, 19.4.-22.4.2007
Der künstlerische Unterricht findet einmal monatlich im Rahmen von dreitägigen Workshops statt.
2. Von dem jeweiligen Künstlerlehrer, der Künstlerlehrerin kuratiert, wird es zusätzlich eine Plattform von und für junge in Österreich lebende FilmmacherInnen geben, die ihre Filme in der Schule präsentieren.
3. Der Besuch des Österreichischen Filmmuseums, besonders des „Zyklischen Programms“ (jeden Dienstag), ist wichtiger Bestandteil der Ausbildung. Die Kenntnis der Geschichte des Films, die geistige Befruchtung und Bereicherung anbietet, ist unumgänglich für autonomes Beurteilen der eigenen Filme.
4. Im technischen Unterricht wird anfangs eine Einweisung in die technischen Geräte der Schule angeboten und werden später Fragen beantwortet, die zur Verwirklichung der eigenen Filme notwendig sind. PIP CHODOROV wird mit den Studenten S-8 mm und 16 mm Filme selbst entwickeln. Es stehen ein 16 mm Schneidetisch, zwei 16 mm Kameras und Projektoren zur Verfügung. Der Schneidetisch kann an drei Nachmittagen in der Woche benutzt werden.
Filmtechnische Betreuung: EVE HELLER
ROBERT FENZ
This course will serve students as a foundation in the artistic practice of filmmaking. It will emphasize the act of seeing through shooting film and discussion of student-made moving images. Students will also record sound. We will begin by viewing films that span cinema’s history with emphasis on independent artists and their techniques. The class will concentrate on the development of skills in image and sound as the fundamental elements of cinema, with the goal of beginning to regard and practice the art of filmmaking as a unitary artistic discipline, such as painting, with the same rigor in training. At term’s end, students will have developed the confidence necessary to pursue independent projects.
Biography:
Robert Fenz is a filmmaker from the United States based in Berlin. His body of work demonstrates an experimental, poetic approach to non-fiction filmmaking, with a deep trust in the image and a sustained commitment to human resilience. He has taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and from January 2007, he will be teaching at the University of California at San Diego. He has screened his films at The Museum of Modern Art, The Pacific Film Archive, Museo Reina Sofia, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Harvard Film Archive and The Cinématheque Francaise, as well as the Toronto, New York, London, Rotterdam, and Locarno Film Festivals. Since 2001, he has collaborated with the filmmakers Chantal Akerman and Robert Gardner. From 1997 to 2003, he worked on Meditations on Revolution, a series of short films that explores the definition of the word “revolution”. Fenz was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004. His most recent project, shot in Cuba, France, the United States and Israel, investigates insularity in both geographical and cultural terms. Fenz is currently an artist in residence of the DAAD program in Berlin.
PIP CHODOROV
"Free Radicals"
Free Radicals is the title of a Len Lye film but also refers to the freedom and radicality of the artists who have been making experimental films over the past century. This course will focus on the concepts and techniques informing the history of experimental and avant-garde film. We will watch a number of representative films from the history of the form (1920s through now), including early geometrical abstraction, experiments in visual music, dada, surrealism, letterism, structural film, found footage, diary film and artisanal laboratory techniques. We will discuss the medium-specificity of these works and apply them to production: students will learn shooting, hand-developing and editing, and will practice complete start-to-finish filmmaking with a minimum of means and using concepts gleaned from the different categories of work we have seen.
Biography:
Pip Chodorov is an American independent filmmaker living in Paris; his films have won prizes in festivals worldwide. He has made a dozen portraits of independent filmmakers for Arte’s Kurzschluss. Pip also works as a programmer, publisher, organizer, activist and distributor, having worked in feature film distribution in both New York and Paris, and experimental film distribution since 1990. Pip is the founder von Re:Voir video, publishing experimental films for home video since 1994, and the recipient of an Anthology Film Archives Preservation Award in 2003. He also founded the internet-based forum on experimental film, FrameWorks in 1995. That same year, Pip co-founded L’Abominable, a cooperative do-it-yourself film lab in Paris. Last year he founded The Film Gallery in Paris’ marais district; it is the first art gallery in the world devoted exclusively to film art. He has studied cognitive science in the States, as well as semiotics in France. Pip has been working with The American Pavilion at the Cannes film festival since 1989.
GÄSTE
THOMAS DRASCHAN, GUSTAV DEUTSCH, SIEGFRIED A. FRUHAUF, MARA MATTUSCHKA
ZEITEINTEILUNG
- Workshops einmal monatl. Do. 19-21 Uhr, Fr., Sa., So. jeweils sechs Stunden
- Dienstags „Zyklisches Programm“ im Österreichischen Filmmuseum 19-21 Uhr
- Technische Einführung in Geräte anfangs wöchentlich ab 19 Uhr, später nach Vereinbarung.
- Benutzung des Schneidetischs Mo., Di., Mi. nachmittags.