Moving Pictures League

Open to the Art School only. This course may be
open to students at other year levels, and in
other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
This course is dedicated to the making of moving
pictures: projects whose defining characteristic
is that they move and change over time, including
video, film, or the animation of still images,
performance for the camera, magic lantern shows,
or sound works whose moving images are mental.
Each student will be expected to bring a project
to develop for the semester, and we will develop
our curriculum based upon the concerns that arise
from students' projects and shared concerns with
our mediums, including sound- image
relationships, questions of voice, concept and
structure, the arcs and rhythms we develop over
time, and the differences between installation
and screening contexts. As our larger frame, we
will say "league" rather than "course," because
whether our projects will be individually or
collaboratively produced, we will be making them
"in league with each other" - screening,
watching, listening, supporting, sharing our
development and helping one another to build a
critical discourse that surrounds or invades our
work, while pushing our potential to move an
audience. An association, an alliance, "league"
comes from the same root that in Latin means "to
bind," as a ligament binds muscle to bone. In
other words, for the duration of the semester we
will be bound in relation - an element of a
social practice that we will also inspect as a
resource, where the relations built in our
production and for our reception will be
considered within the space of our work.