A COURSE FOR ARTISTS, FILMMAKERS, SCHOLARS AND ANYONE INTERESTED IN HOW WE ENGAGE WITH ARCHIVES, CULTURAL MEMORY, AND HISTORY THROUGH FILM. IT LOOKS AT THE CREATIVE STRATEGIES THAT ARTISTS HAVE USED TO PRODUCE ETHICAL REWORKINGS OF IMAGES ASSOCIATED WITH OUR TROUBLED PASTS.

Course Description

Politics and Poetics of Archival Filmmaking https://opencitylondon.com/courses/archival-filmmaking/

7 weeks, Thursday evenings, 7-9 PM.10^th April – 22^nd May.

General Price: £195 | Concession/Students: £185 | UCL Student: 175

 

Course content:

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A course for artists, filmmakers, scholars, and anyone interested in how we engage with archives, cultural memory, and history through film. We’ll look at the creative strategies filmmakers have used to produce ethical reworkings of materials associated with our troubled pasts.

WHAT: We consider the problem of images and archives that dehumanise their subjects, as well as the creative strategies used by artists and filmmakers to produce ethical reworkings of materials associated with our troubled pasts.

WHERE: Online distance learning, take part in this class from your home with a computer/tablet.

WHO: Run by Miranda Pennell, an artist, filmmaker and teacher whose films often rework images from British colonial archives to reflect on contemporary situations.

WHEN: Monday 7th April – 26th May. Monday evenings, 7:00 – 9:00 PM (UK Time) 7 sessions.

COMMITMENT: Flexible, optional extra readings within sessions.

HOW MUCH: General: £195.00 | Students/Concessions £185.00 | UCL Students: £175.00

BURSARIES: This course offers bursary places. Please see our Terms & Conditions.

DEADLINE TO SIGN UP: 3rd April 2025.