The State of Things. On Collective Filmmaking

Art and the Social Specialisation module C21

Course Lecturers: Philipp Sattler, Milica Tomić

In this course, students will work on film along the southern Istrian coast - from Pula to Vodnjan, Fažana and into the archipelago of Brijuni. These cities, islands and the socio-political and military histories inscribed spatially into land and sea will form objects of study for the course. Inspired by cinema clubs in Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s, the amateur movement of filmmaking, and anarchist forms of self-organization, students will work on developing an experimental collective film project. We will explore the themes of anti-fascist graffiti as a form of spatial resistance and the history and critique of the Non-Aligned Movement in the area.

We will ask what form collectivity can take and what it means inside the university. How and what political positions arise from a collective film approach - historical, contemporary and our own - and think together with several inputs on histories of the region, current research on human and more-than-human worlds, archive, museum and site visits. In the process, we will discuss, read, write, record, film, edit, and experiment constantly and together. We will share resources and lectures and meet to exchange amongst students from IZK, TU Vienna, ETH Zurich and RCA London.

Dates:

March-May

Tuesday13:00-15:00

Friday 13:00-15:00 

Field Recording April 12-April 15. 2024

Excursion May 13-May 17. 2024

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