Course Site for Future Cinema 1 (and sometimes Future Cinema 2: Applied Theory) at York University, Canada
Great meeting you all today.
The syllabus is available for download here:
http://www.yorku.ca/caitlin/futurecinemas/?page_id=6
Readings for week two are available online via this website – check out the online reading section.
Your first assignment is also due week two.
Try to get to FIVARS on the weekend!
see you next week!
Wed, September 14 2016 » future cinema 2015 » No Comments
Here is my final project: an online pitch and a trailer for an interactive documentary titled CENSOR.SWEATSHOP (click title and it will open in a new window)
Tue, December 8 2015 » future cinema 2015 » No Comments
This Ada Lovelace doc is screening at The Revue next weekend: https://www.facebook.com/events/200915890245789/
Thu, November 26 2015 » future cinema 2015 » 1 Comment
“Tactical Media” is a chapter in the book Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization (2004) by Alexander Galloway. Galloway’s central argument is that the internet is a space of control.
Earlier in the text, Galloway defines protocol as “a set of rules that defines a technical standard. But from a formal perspective, protocol is a [...]
Tue, November 24 2015 » future cinema 2015 » No Comments
This is the film I mentioned as being of interest to us following Nanna’s show-and-tell of her own film.
“Women are the focus but not the object of Trinh T. Minh-ha’s influential first film, a complex visual study of the women of rural Senegal. Through a complicity of interaction between film and spectator, REASSEMBLAGE reflects on [...]
Wed, November 18 2015 » future cinema 2015 » No Comments
3D FILMS THAT GO TO UNEXPECTED PLACES
http://tiff.net/addeddimensions
lots of 3D possibilities at TIFF this week (you can purchase tickets via the link) including:
Love
Directed by Gaspar Noé
(R)
French provocateur Gaspar Noé (Enter the Void) continues to push the envelope with this 3D melodrama featuring explicit, unsimulated sex.
Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival 2015
Wed, November 18 2015 » future cinema 2015 » No Comments
In his essay “What is Digital Cinema?” Lev Manovich notes that the majority of discussion around digital cinema has focused on the possibilities of narrative interaction. Manovich argues that this focus on narrative only addresses one aspect of cinema, which is neither unique nor essential to the medium.
For Manovich the challenge presented by digital [...]
Tue, November 17 2015 » future cinema 2015 » No Comments
I thought we could work through some secondary texts together, starting with this piece:
https://networkologies.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/tips-for-reading-deleuzes-cinema-ii-the-time-image-towards-a-direct-imaging-of-time/
Tue, November 17 2015 » future cinema 2015 » No Comments
I mentioned a music video which articulates the terrifying burden of having an online presence. Here it is! It’s called Carmen by Stromae.
-Sarah S.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKftOH54iNU
Fri, November 13 2015 » future cinema 2015 » No Comments
sadly, the actual Haunting site is no longer active, but here is background on the project:
http://www.mobilelab.ca/haunting.html
Thu, November 12 2015 » future cinema 2015 » No Comments