“I thought the cine-tracts were a really good idea. They started out with things about the police, about the repression, in an attempt to publicise what had been happening. The newspapers had been suppressing alot. To make it more widely known, they simply filmed photographs, for example. I mean they made films but very stylized….You take a photograph and a statement by someone like Lenin or Che, and then you divide Che’s sentence into, lets say 10 parts, one word per image, and then you add the photo that corresponds to the meanings, “corresponds” whether with it or goes against it, depending on the cicumstances. That’s a cinetract.” Jean Luc Godard on the notion of Kino-Praxis
The session this week is important as all of you should have made a decision on what your final project is. Make sure that on your blog before the sessions you have uploaded your plans, images, influences, inspirations, schedules, characters, treatments, maps, trajectories, approaches, theory, photographs, style, thoughts, approach, philosophy and direction of the project. Come ready to share your ideas for discussion in class.
MA 21st Century Media Practice 2017 