Before arriving at the Seminar, we ask everyone to read the following short texts so we’ll start with some shared ideas as we go through the week. Additional readings will be added.
Oberhausen Manifesto, 1962
Balsom, Erika. "Live and Direct: Cinema As Performing Art." Art Forum, September 2014.
Brenez, Nicole. “Cinematic Arts’ Attack on Actuality.” Brooklyn Rail. July-Aug 2014.
Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century. Chapter 4.
*Please read pages 116-136. Feel free to read the entire chapter though!
Eisenstein, Sergei. "Stereoscopic Films." Problems of Film Direction, 2004.
Fowle, Kate. “Who Cares: Understanding the Role of the Curator Today.” Cautionary Tales, 2007. Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt & Amy Lehrburger.
Gass, Lars Henrik. “Compiling a Selection of Films Is not An Artistic Strategy, It Brings Such a Strategy To Light.” OnCurating, Issue 23.
Picard, Andrea. “Pomp and Circumstance: The Ever-Expanding Film Festival.” CinemaScope. Spring 2007, Issue 30.
Salemy, Mohammad. “After Anthropocinema.” Brooklyn Rail. July-Aug 2014.
Oberhausen Manifesto, 1962
Balsom, Erika. "Live and Direct: Cinema As Performing Art." Art Forum, September 2014.
Brenez, Nicole. “Cinematic Arts’ Attack on Actuality.” Brooklyn Rail. July-Aug 2014.
Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century. Chapter 4.
*Please read pages 116-136. Feel free to read the entire chapter though!
Eisenstein, Sergei. "Stereoscopic Films." Problems of Film Direction, 2004.
Fowle, Kate. “Who Cares: Understanding the Role of the Curator Today.” Cautionary Tales, 2007. Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt & Amy Lehrburger.
Gass, Lars Henrik. “Compiling a Selection of Films Is not An Artistic Strategy, It Brings Such a Strategy To Light.” OnCurating, Issue 23.
Picard, Andrea. “Pomp and Circumstance: The Ever-Expanding Film Festival.” CinemaScope. Spring 2007, Issue 30.
Salemy, Mohammad. “After Anthropocinema.” Brooklyn Rail. July-Aug 2014.