Academic Catalog 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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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
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