We'll be using this blog as a space for personal and collective reflection on the films that we've screened in our course. As you should know by now, you'll be required to post a blog entry once a week to this blog--Views from the Projector Room. Your blog should be no less than 200 words in length. It may also incorporate images and videos! (Trolling youtube.com, you'll find lots of snippets of avant-garde films...even bits and pieces of the ones we'll be screening in this class. And there are TONS of stills of films that we'll be watching floating out there, too!)
Your blog entry should be an earnest attempt to make sense of the films we've screened. Refrain therefore from extemporaneous writing that digresses away from the matter at hand. But your blog entry doesn't have to be a formal piece of academic writing either! Instead, think of this space as a place where we can try and start to unlock the ideas lurking underneath the films we watch. What emotional effects do they have on us? What sorts of techniques does the film use to create these effects? What might a single film mean? Are there particular moments, sequences, images, symbols, sound, or words that can help us make sense of these films?
Just to get the multi-media ball rolling, here's a favorite of mine that we will not be watching this semester:
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