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40 423 Architecture & Film; from Darkness to Light
Full course name in Norwegian Bokmål:
Architecture & Film; from Darkness to Light
Credits:
6
Course code:
40 423
Level of study:
Master
Teaching semester:
2024 Spring
Assessment semester:
2024 Spring
Language of instruction:
English
Year:
2024
Maximum number of students:
16
Person in charge
Rolf Gerstlauer
Wenkai Xu
Required prerequisite knowledge
Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS) and a desire to conduct your own experimental artistic research on moving images producing and containing architectural phenomena and conditions.
Course content
This elective course in Architecture & Film will focus on the Morphology of Body and Space through investigations in photographic and moving images registering, and creatively editing, Daylight conditions as they move from Darkness to Light. The aim with the course is to further understand, influence and critically develop the architectural space through a phenomenological and perceptual approach. The course uses the video camera and editing software as creative tools to individually observe, register, and interpret different situations, sensations, and phenomena with the aim to anew reflect upon and inform architectures spatial properties.
Learning outcome
Knowledge: The students will receive an introduction to various theories of architecture, media studies, film, and videoart connected to the topic of the course.
Skills: Exercises, lectures, and discussions give the students the opportunity to develop a critical stance on the use of camera/editing software as architectural tools in order to further facilitate an advanced, experimental design practice based on a current, critical architectural discourse.
General competence: The ability to conduct an advanced visual experimental architectural design research through the work on moving imagery; including process preparation/adaption, development of own working method, critical verbal/written reflection on one’s own visual material, and the conclusion of the research in a final presentation and film-screening.
Working and learning activities
The course starts with a brief historical, theoretical, and philosophical discussion on film in general, and on kinetic representation of architectural space in particular. Students will be introduced to the field of investigation through lectures, literature and a series of films and videoart works.
Exercises in video sketching* and video editing will train the students’ practical skills and give them insight in the relation between space and the image, and space in the image. Each course day starts with an hour-long talk on the challenge of the day (mandatory lecture). The students manufacture their video individually and then screen and discuss the video work in plenum.
Mandatory reading material is handed out on the respective course days. A literature list is available online and serves as a recommended reading list (not mandatory). *Video sketching: to draw – to doodle/voodle – to paint with video.
Curriculum
Link to course literature registered in Leganto
| Mandatory coursework | Courseworks required | Presence required | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Presence required | Required | Work Effort/Demands: Each of the ten course days demands 5-7 hours of attendance and work. The final elective course week has its own outline and demands daily attendance and work. |
| Form of assessment | Grouping | Grading scale | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project assignment | Individual | Pass / fail | The course is assessed based on a semester project; this entails the weekly practical and theoretical exercises with visual and verbal project presentations, and the making of a film/video and a text/essay in the final elective course week. |