Styles, forms and the use of exhibition space to create meaning Unit 35: Producing Video Installations

? 1. What does the word narrative mean? 2. Using that meaning, what do you think non- narrative means?

Narrative form Tells a story The story is what drives the film Most commercial cinema

Non -Narrative form Alternative films Film / Video art Experimental film making non-narrative films can include: alternative, poetic, abstract, metaphorical, surrealist, avant- garde, absurdist, musical, anti-narrative, underground, carnival, grotesque, etc.

Exhibition space creating meaning

Omar Fast Where would you install the film ‘5000 Feet is the Best’? Extra research clip – (watch from 3:36) Think about the idea of space, viewing from above and being watched / stalked and murdered The idea of the film is War - two drone pilots – one, discussing the best way to hit targets in Pakistan while sitting in a control room in Nevada

Imperial War Museum Click on image for article on how it was installed

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller The Paradise Institute – Click on image for video

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller The Paradise Institute The whole cinema fits into this box, which is then installed into the gallery Using forced perspective, they made it look as though the cinema had many rows of seats, but it only had 2. At least two stories run simultaneously. There is the “visual film” and its accompanying soundtrack that unfolds before the viewers; layered over this is the “aural action” of a supposed audience

Task Read the article interviewing the head of Film and Video Umbrella (next slide) Research two of the artists on the ‘Other interesting ways of installing work’ and put your research onto Weebly. Research into their work, a specific installation and why you like it.

Article on art film professionals-network/culture-professionals- blog/2013/sep/12/steven-bode-film-video- umbrella-art professionals-network/culture-professionals- blog/2013/sep/12/steven-bode-film-video- umbrella-art

Other interesting ways of installing work Spartacus Chetwynd Marie Jo Lafontaine Shigeko Kubuto Susan Hiller

Tacita Dean Harun Farocki

Audiences of installation and your own work Unit 35: Producing Video Installations

Nature of the audience Who is watching these installations? (How can you find this information out?) For some of the installations you have seen, the audience is required to respond or interact with the installation in some way – explain how.

LO1 You are no required to take all your research and put it into a magazine style article that was shown to you at the beginning of these tasks.