| CODE | ATS5161 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Udine-Gorizia, International Film Studies Spring School | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Faculty of Arts | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This is an intensive, seven-day programme in which students follow lectures, participate in workshops, visit exhibitions and attend screenings and artists’ talks. Over the years, the following themes have been discussed: Institutions, Knowledge, Dispositifs; the Digital Archive; Memory, Image, Historical Time; The Archive and its Subject; The Archive and its Traces; Cinema & Contemporary Visual Art; Post-Cinema: videogame/animation/comic; the Film Heritage. The Spring School is held in the towns of Udine and Gorizia (North-Italy) in March-April of each year and is open to academic staff as well as Master’s and Ph.D students. During the Spring School, scholars from various European and North American countries, filmmakers, visual artists and curators gather with the purpose of discussing specific themes in the areas of film and contemporary visual arts. Special attention is paid to the training of experts and theorists in the field of audiovisual media. The following is a link to the Udine-Gorizia International Spring School which is dedicated to the study of the relationship between Cinema and other Contemporary Visual Art Forms: http://www.filmforumfestival.it/ The thirteenth annual MAGIS Spring School which was held in March 2015 included the following sections, among others: Cinema & Contemporary Visual Art. The Cinema & Contemporary Visual Art Section aims at pursuing the dialogue between artists and scholars that has characterized the previous editions of the MAGIS – Gorizia International Film Studies Spring School. The Section intends to promote the discussion on artistic practices and their analysis in the academic field, the ways in which artists narrate their work and their interpretation from the perspective of art history and contemporary art. The programme will be articulated in Master Classes held by authors, curators, cultural operators, archives and managers of Arts Centres through talks and lectures delivered by scholars, along with screenings, exhibitions and performative events. Post-cinema: The Border Within II - The Body, the Power, the Media. The section aims at investigating the body’s contemporary status in the realm of new media, such as videogames, the transmedia platform, and the social networks. It also aims at analysing the body in the realm of older visual media, which are influenced by the postmedial condition, with specific attention to the innovations generated by technological shifts. Our main focus is on the constant transformative process the concept of body is undergoing within the realm of contemporary media products. This year we would like to understand how the processes of the power pass through the bodies, and how the medial condition influences the latter. Film Heritage. The Section is organized by University of Udine - La Camera Ottica Film and Video Restoration, CineGraph/Hamburg, Potsdam-Fachhochschule and Universität Potsdam. After having concentrated on the Institutionalization of Film Cultures (Film Heritage 2012), the Accessibility Policies (Film Heritage 2013), and The Non-Access / Blocking Access / Disabling Access problems (Film Heritage 2014), the next edition will continue to explore these issues with a particular focus on the relationship between film history and cultural dispositifs. The Section will take into consideration four different periods and frameworks of film history in order to discuss specific processes, tools and apparatuses that articulated the identity, function and value of film as work, document and object in relation to its preservation and transmission: 1. 1910s-1920s. Establishing film as art; 2. 1920s-1940s. Building the Dispositifs; 3. 1950s-1960s. Changing Mode: Auteurship and Texts; 4. Beyond the Film Heritage: The Early Medical Cinema between Media Landscape, Art History and Archive Theory. Each year's programme is normally announced around November. Study-unit Aims: - Allow students to actively engage in the ongoing debate on film studies within a dynamic international setting; - To give students the opportunity to exchange their ideas on film with postgraduate students from other universities; - To give students the opportunity to attend lectures and workshop sessions delivered by leading international film scholars participating in the Udine/Gorizia Spring School; - Impart to the students the ability to discuss the multifaceted dimension of film and its relationship with the other arts; - To improve the students' expressive potential in their critical engagement with film studies. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - conceptualize and convincingly express new insights on a wide variety of films and their complex engagement with the other arts; - examine, organise, and synthesise his or her scholarly views of both a thematic and technical nature on the cinema of different countries or regions; - engage in scholarly debate on film and its relationship with both "low" and "high" culture. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - formally articulate and discuss in a scholarly fashion their ideas on film; - read films works as part of a complex web of intertextual relationships with the visual arts; - draw on his or her improved expressive potential in film and apply it to the critical appraisal of related fields in seminar discussion; - collegially interact in debate on film and its relationship with the other arts. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: A list of main texts and supplementary readings will be provided each year as soon as the programme of the Spring School is announced. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lectures, Visits and Workshops | ||||||||
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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