Stream Of Being: A Master Class in Cinematic Assemblage
The dissection and reconstruction of consciousness in media-based art-making, a hands-on workshop.
The dissection and reconstruction of consciousness in media-based art-making, a hands-on workshop.
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What
Stream of Being is a seminar workshop on reinventing visual narrative as a multi-dimensional tapestry of thoughts, associations and potentials moving through time and space. Stream Of Being will immerse a small group of advanced students in an active exploration of the skills needed to master Kasumi’s unique process of filmmaking. Who This intensive, hands-on master class/workshop is for artists, filmmakers, video artists, writers, dancers, choreographers, musicians – those with a sustained interest in using alternative film-, video- and/or sound-technology methods as part of their art-making and wish to explore the realm of improvisatory, symbolic, non-narrative, time-based work. Introduction From the coal dust of cave paintings to 3D digital filmmaking, we have always harnessed technology to expand our perception and assist in creating art in all forms – art that expresses the otherwise un-expressible, art that helps us see, hear and feel the unknowable. But since the invention of photography, mechanically reproduced images have so permeated our lives that we have become blinded to the “language” of those images as we become blinded to any familiar surroundings. In Stream of Being students will rediscover these images - the visual and auditory components of our culture - intently study them and create art while increasing their technical skills through rigorous practice with modern production tools. How Using a variety of randomly collected footage, sound material and standard digital tools such as Adobe Premiere and After Effects, students will synthesize the different modes of expression into a metaphorical language resembling the stream of messages and subconscious connections making up human perception. In Stream Of Being we will use the screen as a tool of inquiry and self-expression, to arouse awareness of truth: not what Werner Herzog called the “truth of accountants” – truth based in objectively observable facts – but the psychological essence – of what is at the heart of that truth. Students will explore the ways in which digital technology can transform contemporary visual culture and fracture the predictable. Students will be encouraged to experiment with new presentation methods and develop innovative techniques for combining sight and sound, light and word, movement and stasis in order to convey the resonance of perception, the depth of feeling, and the power of cognition to shape impressions into an individual sense of self and the world Goals Students will be expected to produce one or two short works that emphasize ideas outside the traditional narrative and documentary models and they will be encouraged to develop their own forms of aesthetic expression. A public screening will be held at the end of the workshop. Case Study: Shockwaves • Story/thematic development • Collecting/shooting footage • Meta-montage and compositing • Sound/music Topics of discussion and overview of the processes • Alternative story-telling • Fundamentals of improvisation • Narrative density, dislocation and manipulation of time • Conscious and unconscious content • Hierarchy of logic in non-narrative sequences • Metaphor and association • Movement, form and meaning • Appropriation and sampling (camera-less filmmaking and found poetry) • Looping • Unification of sound and image camera as painting tool • Dance – choreography for the camera • Associative narration and non-linear thought • Editing for maximum emotional response • Meta-montage and the tone row • Masking and motion-masking • Deep layering, compositing and color • Time-remapping Tools • Adobe Premiere • Adobe After Effects • Photoshop • Ableton Live • Modul8 |
