Listen to Dreams in Strange Colors. Film as Architectural Practice was the title of this semester’s course Design of Specialized Topics conveyed by Philipp Sattler. The idea of the course was to understand architecture as a narrative and also a non-narrative practice that can be realised in film.
Students focused on the works of visual artist, filmmaker and “failed architect” Arthur Jafa and learned from his practice, along with what he calls “Black Visual Intonation”. The students turned to a wide array of film and sound practices that transgress the mainstream and reconceptualize the art of cinema– Free Cinema, Third and Fourth Cinema, and Expanded Cinema, among others which grounded their understanding of film in very concrete and specific places, ideas and forms that helped us unpack what film might do. With ongoing exercises in editing, sampling and expanded cinematic practices, students developed their own films as a response to and position arising from the course. On this occasion, IZK hosted a screening event of the experimental short films produced by the students accompanied with a public discussion and a DJ set by Antonin Rigau.
Films shown were created by:
Sarah Abdel Atti, Rojdi Alici, Florian Berger, Maja Ereš, Thomas Everett, Hannah Gilly, Paul Hartinger, Dominik Hutter, Lorenz Kerschensteiner, Yu-Chun Kuan, Anaïs Lavollée, Bardhë Memishi, Marika Pierni, Marcel Posch, Antonin Rigau, Bojana Sikanic, Leonita Smajlji
