LW367 - 01 - Text & the Moving Image

Our explorations in this interdisciplinary workshop center around the interplay of image and text in film and video. We will tend to the space between words, between images, the movements from one to another, what's alive in the cracks. How might poetic devices translate to film? How might film theory inspire our writing? What are the myriad ways text, voice and image can layer and entwine? This workshop is for students interested in practices that live and migrate between moving images and language art. Together we consider essay films, cinepoetry, video art, installation and live performance. Class time includes screenings, discussions of texts by artists, poets and film theorists, and time for open-ended prompts for individual and collaborative experiments. No prior experience is necessary, only a desire to engage deeply with films and texts, experiment with new forms and media, and create in thoughtful community.