Cinema was the art form of the twentieth century. In the twenty-first, the rules of the
image/screen/projection game have changed. Nonetheless, the contemporary
screen—from your mobile to IMAX—is haunted by its predecessor (as a film such as
2001 A Space Odyssey foresaw). We are still and always learning to see.

Contemporary Documentary

Documentary film always has partaken of the fictional and the delirious—only think of its two foundational works: Nanook of the North (Flaherty, 1922) and Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929)—while also purporting—believe it or not!—to have some sort of close relationship with “the truth.” Somewhere along the line—60s’ French Cinema Verité or Chris Marker’s “cine, ma verité”?—the pretence was given up. Documentary today is wide open: fantastic, aleatory, minimal, constructivist, personal, assaultive ... and all those other groovy qualities. 

This course will focus on a few of those films, made within the last decade. Get ready

NB: Attendance at the first class is required; no one admitted after the first class (and please, don't even ask - there are no exceptions).

Monday, 1.30 pm to 4.30 pm
Seminarroom Architecturetheory, Wiedner Hauptstraße 7, courtyard, stairs nb. 2, 1st floor.

Begin: 23th October 2017