Styles, forms and the use of exhibition space to create meaning

Unit 35: Producing Video Installations

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1. What does the word narrative mean?

2. Using that meaning, what do you think non-narrative means?

Narrative form

Tells a storyThe story is what drives the filmMost commercial cinema

Non -Narrative form

Alternative filmsFilm / Video artExperimental film making

non-narrative films can include: alternative, poetic, abstract, metaphorical, surrealist, avant-garde, absurdist, musical, anti-narrative, underground, carnival, grotesque, etc.

Christian Marclay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp4EUryS6ac

Exhibition space creating meaning

Omar FastWhere would you install the film ‘5000 Feet is the Best’?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89kGfEvwXokExtra research clip – (watch from 3:36) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uHbDtThKXo

Imperial War Museum

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

The Paradise Institute

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

The Paradise InstituteThe whole cinema fits into this box, which is then installed into the

gallery

Using forced perspective, they made it look as though the cinema had many rows of seats, but it only

had 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs_fbfOYBkQ

Styles of Installation

There are four styles of video installation which we have been looking at.

Two of the styles are PHYSICAL ways in which video can be installed

Two of the styles look at THEORETICAL ideas about film.

TASK: Using the empty styles sheet and the list of words and phrases, complete the diagram

For example….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar99AfOJ2o8

Where would you put ‘Double Vision / Transitions’ by Peter Campus?

Styles of Video installation

Shown on TV, in a cinema, using a TV monitor or a projection on a screen

Using multi screens, combining video with sculptures/images/performances.

i.e Peter Campus Double Vision

i.e Janet Cardiff Christian Marclay

Installation

Single channel

Exploring the medium of film / video itself

Questioning the audiences’ assumptions of what conventional

cinema is

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Homework

Read the article interviewing the head of Film and Video Umbrella

Research two of the artists on the ‘Other interesting ways of installing work’ and put your research onto Weebly. Research into their work, a specific installation and why you like it.

Other interesting ways of installing work

Spartacus Chetwynd

Marie Jo Lafontaine

Shigeko Kubuto

Susan Hiller

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lefvPUYGvi0

Tacita Dean http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGv71UqPPVc

Harun Farockihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WWk3jGEFwI

Article on art film

• http://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2013/sep/12/steven-bode-film-video-umbrella-art