CNPH 31200 - Poetic Montage

Institution:

Ithaca College

Subject:

Cinema and Photography

Description:

This intermediate cinema course, offered in conjunction with Nick Muellner's Photographic Projects in Rome, explores the aesthetic concerns associated with editing. We will read the notable late writing of Sergel Eisenstein, Montage as Architecture, as well as essays from Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini's ground-breaking book Heretical Empiricism. This hands-on editing course explores the potential of documentary material to articulate meaning beyond what is depicted within the frame. As Pasolini observed in his seminal essay, The Written Language of Reality, "we can recognize and represent invisible domains only through a rigorously detailed contemplation of the material world and the objects and people inhabiting it." With that in mind, students will be asked to acquire images from the streets of Rome, Italy with an attention to both their content and their compositional dynamics in order to produce a short poetic documentary. This class' primary objective is to help the central element of film language and to enable students to refine their personal cinematic voices by developing the most critical skill of any editor, learning to see how the material world itself speaks. Prerequisites: working knowledge of a non-linear editing software program. 2 credits.

Credits:

2.00

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Instructional Type:

Lab

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Institution Website:

www.ithaca.edu

Phone Number:

(607) 274-3011

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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