Moving A Still Artifact: Film Critiques the Museum (Autumn)
Price £195
By drawing from the long and rich thread throughout cinema history centred around collecting and museum collections, this short course will focus on the filmmaker’s potential to transform these cultural institutions.
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WHAT: Participants will explore various modalities of filmic discourse to create a film produced from their enquiries into museums, the objects that live within them, archival and found footage.
WHERE: Online distance learning, take part in this class from your home with a computer/tablet.
WHEN: Monday evenings, 6:00 – 9:00 PM (UK Time) 7 sessions.
WHO: Run by Jessica Sarah Rinland, an Argentine-British artist filmmaker and educator
HOW MUCH: General: £195.00 | Students/Concessions £185.00 | UCL Students: £175.00
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DEADLINE TO APPLY: 25th September 2024
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UCL is delighted to welcome back this course, designed and run by artist, filmmaker and educator Jessica Sarah Rinland. View her past event at Open City Documentary Festival HERE.
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Course Overview:
Museums and cultural institutions dedicated to the procurement, study, and display of cultural objects are at a critical moment in their history, as the decolonisation of their ownership, representation, accessibility, and funding are being brought to the forefront. Art Historian Sophie Berrebi succinctly stated, “Todays’ museums are undergoing a profound mutation that is fed by social, economic, and political factors, which force them to reconsider their mode of action, their routines of collecting and exhibiting.”
Moving a Still Artefact: Film critiques the museum led by filmmaker Jessica Sarah Rinland (Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another), draws from the long and rich thread throughout cinema history centred around collecting and museum collections; sites of cultural significance have proved to be, and continue to be productive subjects for films. Participants will explore various modalities of filmic discourse to create a film produced from their enquiries into museums, the objects that live within them, archival and found footage. By exploring the museum through film – from an architectural setting or didactic experience, to the subversive – the workshop will focus on the filmmaker’s potential to transform these cultural institutions. Expose the “other side” of the museological practice, of collection, knowledge production, disposition and appropriation using the visual and sonic medium of film.
When reflecting on the depiction of cultural objects in Statues Also Die (1953) – Chris Marker, Ghislain Cloquet, and Alain Resnais’ critique of the ways Western museums decontextualise and display African art objects – Sophie Berrebi describes how the attributes of film – image, sound, and montage – act as revelatory devices, exposing the “other side” of a cultural object “creating a rupture in the museum’s order”. This investigation will allow for reflection upon the history of museums i.e., cabinet of curiosities and private collections, as well as historic house-museums and virtual object and institutional tours.
Prospective Course Outline: (subject to change)
Session 1: Intro to films that critique the museum
Session 2: Display, Archive, Access
Session 3: The Making of objects and their voice
Session 4: Site visit and shoot
Session 5: Replicas and Trade
Session 6: Repatriation
Session 7: Presentation and Crits of student work
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This course offers bursary places. Please check our Terms and conditions to see if you are eligible to apply.
This course will be delivered via online distance learning, and students will require a computer or other internet connected device.
Image credit: Object Interviews by Patrick Hough.
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Tutors
Jessica Sarah Rinland
Tutor
Jessica Sarah Rinland is an Argentine-British artist filmmaker and educator. She is a recipient of numerous prizes including Special Mention at Locarno Film Festival and Best Film at DocumentaMadrid, Primer Premio at BIM – Bienale de Imagen en Movimiento, Arts + Science Award at Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Schnitzer prize for excellence in the arts in 2017. Her work has been exhibited at University of Tennessee’s Downtown Gallery, Southwark Park Galleries, Taipei Biennial, Somerset House and Bloomberg New Contemporaries. She has had retrospectives of her films at the Flaherty Film Seminar, Doc’s Kingdom, Aricadoc, Eureka Film Festival, Curtocircuito, London Short Film Festival and Anthology Film Archives. Her films are held in the British Film Institute’s collections. She holds a BA (Honors) in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and a MSc in Arts, Culture and Technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She currently teaches at Harvard Summer School and Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola.
