VSA2220

Alternative Film and Video (6 points)

(ARTS)

Leader: Con Verevis

Offered:
Clayton First semester 2005 (Day)

Synopsis:

Objectives: By the completion of this unit students will be expected to: 1. Recognise that alternative film must be understood in relation to mainstream or dominant film practice. 2. Identify a material, social and political difference between historically specific moments of alternative (avant-garde, experimental or independent) film theory and practice. 3. Identify 'political modernism' of the sixties and seventies as a discursive field produced by specific practices of film criticism and associated institutions. 4. Translate this formulation of political modernism into a more contemporary engagement of film practice with theory and the aesthetic characteristics of (post)modernism.

Assessment: Visual test (2 hours): 40% + Essay (3000 words): 60%

Contact Hours: 4 hours (1 x 1 hour lecture, 1 x 1 hour tutorial and 1 x 2 hour screening) per week

Prerequisites: One unit at first-year level in visual culture