1. The beginnings of cinematography (from photography to motion capture), Muybridge's experiments. 2. Film and the avant-garde (influence of dada, surrealism, abstract film, cinema pur), the films of Viking Eggeling. 3. Montage school, Dziga Vertov: Man with a movie camera. 4. Film and Expressionism, Robert Wiener: The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari. 5. The French New Wave and the Left Bank, Chris Marker: La Jetée. 6. New Hollywood. 7. Video art, Fluxus, Nam June Paik. 8. Film and Postmodernism, David Lynch: Blue Velvet. 9. Video, New Media and Video Essay, Harun Farocki. 10. Post-Internet, Steyerl, Atkins, Henrot. 11. Moving Image, Gaming Industry and Artificial Intelligence, Cory Arcangel, Ian Cheng. 12. Cinematography of platforms, series Rings of Power.
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The course introduces students to the milestones of the history of the moving image with regard to the wider field of art, especially visual arts. Each topic is divided into two parts. The first is devoted to a lecture with an emphasis on the contemporary context of the topic, the approach of selected creators and the connection with the art of a specific time. The next part is devoted to the analysis of specific examples and the debate over them. The debate expands the field beyond the framework defined by the lecture. In this way, listeners get a comprehensive overview of the development of the moving image from cinematography, through the art of video and new media to the current situation. when the moving image is one of the dominant forms of art. The course thus follows, among other things, the function of the moving image in relation to the place of its presentation (cinema, exhibition, online) and different ways of perception.
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.
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