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Part 1: The language of
avant-garde/experimental cinema

WK1:
Wk2: Jan28-Feb3 (overall history)
Rdgs...A History of Experimental Film and Video
The shock of the New ch.1&2 (modernism)

WK3: Feb4-10 (European Avant-garde)
Rdgs...The Sock of the New ch.3
Experimental cinema


WK4: Feb11-17 (Dada and surrealist films)
Rdgs... Dada and Surrealist films
l'amour fou

WK5: Feb18-24 (abstract films)
Rdgs...abstruction in avant-garde film
LIght moving in Time
Modernist Montage









Part 2: Theory, Modernism, Relation with other art forms...
(Start watching films!)

WK6: Feb25-Mar3 (Avant-Garde of other countries)
Rdgs... Esenstein&Vertov
Visionary film

WK7: Mar4-10
WK8: Mar11-17
WK9: Mar18-24 SPRING BREAK
WK10: Mar25-31
WK11: Apr1-7

Abstract Cinema
Abstract Art
-Kandinsky
-Harry Smith
-Joedan Belson
-Fishinger
-Lyn Lye
    etc...

Rdgs:
 
Abstract Film and Beyond
Concerning Spiritual in Art
Point and Line to Plane
Abstraction in Cinema
 






Part 3: My film language



WK12: Apr8-14
WK13: Apr15-21
WK14: Apr22-28
WK15: Apr29-May5
Start working on the final project
WK16: May6-13
Evaluaion








































works:
Readings each week (take notes!)
film reports
Watching films 
website
A final project
plus meetings with alex, my advisor