Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen

Part of the "What does it" Series,

This Screening/lecture will give a historical sketch of the Experimental film and its uses by artists. Beginning with the moving abstractions of Richter and Man in the 1930’s and ending with narrative explorations of Elisabeth Charlotte "Pipilotti" Rist and Blu, we will investigate in this survey will explore the practice that artists used and what thoughts underlined of the material of film and how alternation (over time?) was construed as substance, or representation, by them. The Lecture-screening will be comprised of the entirety of the length of each film with contextualizing remarks about the art thinking and media language involved in the film/video. The lecture/screening will be 3 and ½ hours long and exhaustive to a trend in the Art language of film as developed by artists.

Films to be Screened Are (or open list here: note,Word Document):

Lumiere Brothers, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat - 1895 (50 sec ***) Exiting the Factory- 1897 (50 sec ***)

Georges Melies, A Trip to the Moon 1902 (14 min ***)

Man Ray, A Return to Reason 1923 (3 min ***)

Han Richter, Rythmus 21 1923 (3 min***) Ghosts Before Breakfast 1928 (3 min***)

Marcel Duchamp, Anemic Cinema 1926 (6 min***)

Luis Bunuel (S.Dali), Un Chien Andalou 1929 (16 min***)

Oscar Fischinger, Composition in Blue 1935 (3.56 min)

Len Lye, A Color Box 1935 (3.42 min)

Harry Smith, Film # 3, Interwoven 1947 (3.23 min)

Norman Mclaren, Neighbours 1952 (8.06 min)

Stan Vanderbeek, Science Friction 1959 (10 mins)

Malcolm LeGrice, A Little Dog For Roger 1967 (12.11 min)

William Wegman, 2 Dogs and A Ball 1972 (2.30 min)

Caroline & Mouris Frank, Frank Film 1973 (9 min)

Micheal Jackson, Thriller 1983 (14 min)

Pipilotti Rist, I’m Not a Girl Who Misses Much 1986 (5 min)

Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Nymphomania 1993 (9 mins)

Steven McQueen, Deadpan 1997 (1 min)

Bonnie Camplin, Get Me a mirror 2003 (6 mins)

Bobby Abate, Soothsayer 2004 (12.30 min)

Sam Taylor-Wood, Pieta 2007 (2 min)

Paper Rad, Problem Solvers Episode 1220 My Script 2010 (7 min)

Blu, Big Bang, Big Boom 2011 (10 mins)

Steven Dixon

Thursday 26. Jan. kl. 13:30 – 17:00

Lecture Room, Academy building, 4th Floor