Talking Heads
Commonly seen as the bane of documentary films, the "talking head" is reincarnated as a rare and entertaining set of encounters, in formats such as:
a solo, by a woman in her kitchen, and another in a dance bar,
a couple, in a playful interview by jean-luc godard of woody allen,
a trio, when two european film students drunkenly interview tsai ming liang,
four men on a talk-show set, "the Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and the presenter, on In-Mumbai cable channel in 2001,
"paanch bahuraniyan" (five daughters-in-law) in a feudal house in an urban village in Delhi,
a dozen young people and a dholki (drum) singing an old protest song indoors,
a crowd that takes over a TV studio in Bucharest, in 1989.
Also featuring, not in this order: deleuze, dhasal, haraway, ibrahim, prelinger, navalkar, roy, Talking Heads, zizek and more.
What thread ties them together? Perhaps no one , just as all the objects in one's house are not "related" in a simple way.
Come and see more at:
TALKING HEADS
Sunday, 26th December 2010, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
CAMP roof
CAMP presents
Saturday or Sunday evening screenings through winter,
exploring footage both within and outside the usual capsule of "the
film". An experience that could be similar to watching films, or at
other times harder to digest, or slower to release, closer to the moment of
shooting, less censorious, and less fearful of finitude. Another life,
another world of viewing and listening experiences is always possible.
Five narratives developed in the class "Footage Films", that re-assemble archives of campus protest, Penn Museum collections, university weapons development projects, the Schuylkill river, a utopia called Shangri-La, and their intersections across time and place.
*Recalling Far From Vietnam, collectively-made essay film from 1967.
Screening and conversation in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania’s Cinema & Media Studies department and CARG. At old Slought/ new Public Trust.
Film screening, and conversation 6-8:00 pm
We are proposing this term to think more broadly about extraction, waste, dependency, rear-guarding, mediatic conversions, in- and out-sourcing, and other aspects of chains of translation and steps of decision and production.
with Visiting Scholars CAMP
(Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran)
We begin this fall semester's film class with a moratorium on audio-video capture.
100 days without your own images:)