Posts Tagged ‘film’

Logorama

Uncategorized | Posted by Gary Hink
Apr 06 2010

 

Logorama from Marc Altshuler – Human Music on Vimeo.

 

        This is a short film that was directed by the French animation collective H5, François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy + Ludovic Houplain. It was presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. It opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and won a 2010 academy award under the category of animated short.

 

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Emblematics

Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
Mar 28 2010

 
 
M 29-Mar          Internet Invention Chp. 9 (246-60). Discuss: Part Five “WideScope”

       » key topics:  Wide Image, haiku reason, “themata,” emblem;
      “cultural literacy,” readymade, “appropriation,” (Modernist / Pop Art);
      — Remake: Ad form, VALS, conduction
      “the irreparable” gap (Agamben); “void”; “feeling of our being” (mood/disposition?)
       
      → closely read: Assignment & all four “Comment” sub-sections.

     
     
    W 31-Mar          Internet Invention Chp. 9 (261-77). Discuss: “Template”

         » key topics:  wabi-sabi, nostalgia, Haiku poetics (mood → aesthetics; expression)
        Tarkovsky: cinema-poetry, punctum images, emblems; chora(l) directing (auteur);
        — Template: Material & Spiritual Registers (p. 267-8); “condition of singularity”;
        Ulmer’s Emblem (271-5) & Mystory: Noon Star
         
        → closely read: Office & all four “Comment” sub-sections.

       
      Due: Weekly Blog Entry (normal schedule) — Prompt: “Patterning” (p.248)

       
       
      R 01-Apr          Screening: Synechdoche, New York (Dir. Kauffman, 2008)

       
      F 02-Apr          Discuss: “cinema-poetry” Relays (Tarkovsky & Kaufmann)

          Due Sat 03-Apr: Exercise 4 (“Lyric” p.223 & “Being Singular” p.241)

         
         
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        FicellEvents

        Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
        Mar 20 2010

        Week of 22-27 March

          • e.c. opportunities for attendance and participation (blog entry) credit

         
         
        Mon 22 March, 7:30 pm, Pugh Hall Room 170

        • J. Hillis Miller (UC Irvine)
          “Critical Climate Change: Why Is There a Crisis in the Humanities?” Info

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        Fri 26 March, 12pm, Pugh Hall Rm 210 — one-hour colloquium

         
        Fri-Sat 26-27 March, Smathers (Library East) Room 1A

          2010 UF Conference on Comics
          “ImageNext: Visions Past and Future”
           

        • Guest Speakers: David Kunzle (UCLA), Corey Creekmur (Iowa),
          John Porcellino (King Cat Comics), Molly Kiely (Diary of a Dominatrix)

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        Thur-Sat 25-27 March, Dauer Hall Room 219

          “The Global South.” The 12th Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group

          Panel presentations & roundtable discussions 9am-5pm. Program
           

        • F 26-Mar 7pm, Dauer 215
          Film Screening: Immokalee, U.S.A. (2008, 78min).
          Dir. Georg Koszulinski (UF Film & Media Studies Grad Student)

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        • S 27-Mar 3:30pm, Ustler Hall Atrium
          Keynote speaker: Hazel V. Carby (Yale), “Bristol Dreams Jamaica”

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        Beginning the (My)Story

        Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
        Jan 10 2010

         
         
        M 11-Jan read (for class): Internet Invention Chp 1 (18-42): “Mystory”

              Discuss: Part One “Career Discourse” (Popcycle, Humanities)

             
            W 13-Jan read: Bobby Rabyd, Sunshine ’69 (1996) Discuss: New Media / Hypertext

                  * Note: I still need to see everyone’s introductions on their blogs — specifically: grade, major/minor, technical skills and web/creative experience, and enrollment rationale.
                  (I need this info in order to arrange groups. Please post ASAP.)
                   
                  note: weekly blog entries normally due Wednesday evening;
                  suggest writing / posting first entry before Thurs class (when you have time).

                 
                R 14-Jan Screening:

                    Y tu mamá también (Dir. Cuarón, 2001; 105 min.)

                   
                  F 15-Jan Discuss: all assigned material to date, including blog entries.
                                      (quiz? Take notes while reading…)

                      Discuss: Method: Films & Project 1 (1st Component)
                          Due: First Blog Entry

                         
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                        schedule revision (in progress)

                        Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
                        Jan 09 2010

                         
                        As promised yesterday…

                         
                        Not official yet, but soon; feel free to peruse now and to let me which films you’ve seen in a comment below… or, in your first blog entry. (More about blogging, including tips and prompts/Qs, coming soon.)

                         

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