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

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

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

4. 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.

5. Christian Marclay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp4EUryS6ac

6. Exhibition space creating meaning

7. Omar Fast Where would you install the film ‘5000 Feet is the Best’? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89kGfEvwXok Extra research clip – (watch from 3:36) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uHbDtThKXo

8. Imperial War Museum

9. Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller The Paradise Institute

10. 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. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs_fbfOYBkQ

11. Styles of Installation There are four styles of video installation which we have been looking at. Two of the styles are PHYSICAL ways in which video can be installed Two of the styles look at THEORETICAL ideas about film. TASK: Using the empty styles sheet and the list of words and phrases, complete the diagram

12. For example…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar99AfOJ2o8 Where would you put ‘Double Vision / Transitions’ by Peter Campus?

13. Styles of Video installation Shown on TV, in a cinema, using a TV monitor or a projection on a screen Using multi screens, combining video with sculptures/images/perfor mances. i.e Peter Campus Double Vision i.e Janet Cardiff Christian Marclay Installation Single channel Exploring the medium of film / video itself Questioning the audiences’ assumptions of what conventional cinema is PHYSICAL THEORY

14. Homework Read the article interviewing the head of Film and Video Umbrella 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.

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

16. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lefvPUYGvi0 Tacita Dean http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGv71UqPPVc Harun Farocki http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WWk3jGEFwI

17. Article on art film http://www.theguardian.com/culture- professionals-network/culture-professionals- blog/2013/sep/12/steven-bode-film-video- umbrella-art http://www.theguardian.com/culture- professionals-network/culture-professionals- blog/2013/sep/12/steven-bode-film-video- umbrella-art