Georgia Institute of Technology's Experimental Film and Media

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Course Description:
This course provides an overview of experimental moving images from the European "city symphonies" and abstract films of the 1920s to the flowering of the American postwar avant-garde; from the advent of video art in the 1960s to the online viral videos and digital gallery installations of today. The class thus surveys the artists, institutions, and viewers that have fostered moving image art throughout the history of film, and asks students to consider the historical, social, and institutional forces that have engendered oppositional, political, and aesthetically radical cinemas. A central premise of the course is that technological developments such as video and new media are not historical ruptures, but rather, part of an ongoing tradition of moving-image art making. Other core topics will include the consideration of the meaning and use-value of the avant-garde, the issue of “artists’ film and video” as opposed to “experimental film,” and the thorny relationship between avant-garde and commercial filmmaking.

Not on the list:
The Jump (Jack Goldstein, 1978) (not on IMDb)
Melies Shorts (unspecified)
Monster Movie (Takeshi Murata, 2005) (not on IMDb)
Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra (Gotye, various, 2012)
Reflektorische Farblichtspiele (Kurt Schwerdtfeger, 1922/1966) (not on IMDb)
“Round the Bend” music video for Beck (2002) for Jeremy Blake's artwork (not on IMDb)
Walking in an Exaggerated Manner around the Perimeter of a Square (Bruce Nauman, 1967-68) (not on IMDb)
Vertical Roll (Joan Jonas, 1972) (not on IMDb)
William Wegman, selected videos (1972) (only number 4 is on IMDb)
John Baldessari Sings LeWitt (John Baldessari, 1972) (not on IMDb)
Boomerang (Richard Serra, 1974) (not on IMDb)
Six Colorful Inside Jobs (John Baldessari 1977) (not on IMDb)
Space in the Brain (Ture Sjölander, 1969) (not on IMDb)
Union (Steve Beck, Jordan Belson, 1974) (not on IMDb)
Art of Memory (Woody Vasulka, 1987) (not on IMDb)
Sibling Topics (section a) (Ryan Trecartin, 2009) (not on IMDb)
Bill Viola, selections (unspecified)
Omer Fast, selections (unspecified)
The Seven Lights (Paul Chan, 2008) (not on IMDb)
24-Hour Psycho (Douglas Gordon, 1993) (not on IMDb)
Fragment of a Crucifixion (After Francis Bacon) (Paul Pfeiffer, 1999) (not on IMDb)
Man With a Movie Camera remix project (2007-ongoing) (not on IMDb)
Untitled (The Birds without the birds, or give us today our daily terror) (Martijn Hendriks, 2007) (not on IMDb)
I’m Not Here to Make Friends (richfofo, 2008)
Guitar Solo Threeway (John Michael Boling, 2008)
In Bb 2.0 (2010)
STS, Rolling Stones (2009)
Yacht Rock, episode 1, “What a Fool Belives” (JD Ryznar, 2005)
The Shining mash up trailer (PS 260, 2005)
Artist Looking At Camera (Gutherie Lonergan, 2006)
Valentine for Perfect Strangers (Ben Cooley, 2007)
You’re Not My Father (Paul Slocum, 2007)
Dock Ellis and the LSD No-No (James Blagden, 2009)
JODI game hacks
Super Mario Clouds (Cory Arcangel, 2002)
Downfall mashups
Zidane headbutt gifs


Footlight Parade (1931) is listed for the “By a Waterfall” section
Spellbound is listed for the dream sequence (designed by Salvador Dalí)
Vertigo is listed for it's title sequence
Midnight Cowboy is listed for the Joshua Light Show used in the party scene
Punch Drunk Love is listed for the abstract hallucination scenes painted by Jeremy Blake
The Right Stuff is listed for Jordan Belson's F/X work