Experiments in Narrative Film
1. Jean Epstein and Photogenie
Waiting for Happiness (Sissako), Man From London (Bela Tarr)
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2010/great-directors/jean-epstein/
Jean Epstein – Photogenie Essays
French Film Theory and Criticism: A History/Anthology, 1907-1939. Volume 1: 1907-1929 (French Film Theory & Criticism), Richard Abel
2. What Doesn't Happen
Exploding Girl (Bradley Rust Gray), The Headless Woman (Lucretia Martel)
Reading Against Syd Field's Screenwriters Workbook,
Stories of Jane Bowles, Ergo by Jakov Lind, Stories of Blanchot, Stories of Robert Walser
3. A New Kind of Collaboration – Tarr and Krasznahorkai
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
Laszlo Krasznahorkai, The Melancholy of Resistance
4. Extremism and Modern Horror
Irreversible (Gaspar Noe), Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis), Demon Lover (Oliver Assasays), Amer (Helene Cattet)
Visions of Excess, Literature of Evil, Erotism (Georges Batallie)
5. Remodernism
Turin Horse (Bela Tarr), In Passing (Collaboration)
Remodernist Manifesto, Jesse Richards
6. No Wave
Permanent Vacation (Jim Jarmusch), Blank City (Claire Dahnier), The Foreigner (Eric Mitchell), Richard Kern
No Wave, Marc Masters
7. Without a script?
Shadows (Cassavetes), Inland Empire (David Lynch)
J.J. Murphy, Me and You and Momento and Fargo pp. 162-179
Vladímir Propp, Morphology of Folk Tales
8. Self-Aware Cinema
The Temptation of St. Tony (Ounpuu), Intimate Lighting (Passer) Martha (Fassbinder), Nadia (Almereyda)
Brecht Essays
9. Non-Linear narrative
Road to Nowhere (Monte Hellman), Mirror (Tarkovsky), Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
J.J. Murphy - Me and You and Momento and Fargo pp. 201-219
Screenplay for Mirror
Alain Robbe-Grillet, Labyrinth
Julio Cortazar, Hopscotch
Thomas Bernhard, Playing Watten
10. Cinema of Spirit
Second Circle (Sukurov), Eternity and a Day (Angelopoulos), La Coquille et la Clergymen(Artaud/Dullac)
Artaud, Dullac Essays in French Film Theory and Criticism: A History/Anthology, 1907-1939. Volume 1: 1907-1929 (French Film Theory & Criticism), Richard Abel (I'm going to get copies of articles online)
11. Raul Ruiz
Klimt (Ruiz)
Poetics of Cinema 1 and 2, Raul Ruiz
Ummm, I'd love to but the public school said they already had too many film classes...I just applied to teach it at 3rd ward and am waiting to hear back. Other than that, I'm not sure, but am open to ideas of other places that would be interested in hosting it. I am thrilled to hear that people are interested experimental narrative film!
seth, all,
is there still a possibility that you might teach this class in new york?
sounds like it went very well out in LA.
maybe those interested can start batting around ideas in relation to your proposed syllabus.
this may be a step away from the general flow of the class, but i'd be really interested in exploring some of these filmmakers' methodologies as well. you have a class session called "Without a script?" think that might be an intriguing opportunity to look at not only what happens in working without a script, or less than a full script (Kar-Wai, Jarmusch), but also, say, without a director, or without a hierarchy, or with something at least less defined. (for instance, apichatpong is only titled as "conceived by" on Tropical Malady, tho he later ran from that description.) i think this is an issue a lot of filmmakers are now struggling with as the medium is opening itself up with less burdensome technology. but again, this might be a step too far away from the bent of the class.
would love for us all to start talking.
best,
nick
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Ummm, I'd love to but the public school said they already had too many film classes...I just applied to teach it at 3rd ward and am waiting to hear back. Other than that, I'm not sure, but am open to ideas of other places that would be interested in hosting it. I am thrilled to hear that people are interested experimental narrative film!
17 Apr 2012 9:35AM
seth, all,
is there still a possibility that you might teach this class in new york?
sounds like it went very well out in LA.
maybe those interested can start batting around ideas in relation to your proposed syllabus.
this may be a step away from the general flow of the class, but i'd be really interested in exploring some of these filmmakers' methodologies as well. you have a class session called "Without a script?" think that might be an intriguing opportunity to look at not only what happens in working without a script, or less than a full script (Kar-Wai, Jarmusch), but also, say, without a director, or without a hierarchy, or with something at least less defined. (for instance, apichatpong is only titled as "conceived by" on Tropical Malady, tho he later ran from that description.) i think this is an issue a lot of filmmakers are now struggling with as the medium is opening itself up with less burdensome technology. but again, this might be a step too far away from the bent of the class.
would love for us all to start talking.
best,
nick
17 Apr 2012 9:15AM