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MPFV259 Brackhage’s Songs and Their Context 3cr


The course introduces students to Stan Brakhages

SONGS  a 30 film serial work.(1964-69) ,  Each of

the films will be presented and discussed in

class along with other relevant films,poems,

music and critical texts.  Scans of each of the

SONGS  should be available for out side of class

review and study.

 

The use of 8mm an “”amateur”” film gauge largely

used for home movies, the formal structures of

the individual films and their relationship to

the overall series, aesthetic approaches to

journalism personal and social and the

historical, politcal, and artistic contexts will

be covered in class.

Students will be required to make presentations

of their responses to the SONGS  in class and to

make time based work that find inspiration in

these works.

Hybrid Studio Critique

Fall