Artistic development work

Artistic development work is always based on artistic grounds. The purpose of development projects is always, in some sense, to expand, deepen, examine and, ultimately, to give an artistic expression to the reflection of artistic practice.
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ACOUSMATICS
- on sound in motion picture storytelling

The project ACOUSMATICS is aimed at researching into the field of sound not only by examining the audiovisual contract between the audience and the expression of the film but also, with regard to sound work, by problematising the relation between sound and consciousness, rhythm, pace and the body, among other issues.
The project ACOUSMATICS will be presented in the form of a 40-60 minute essay/documentary film based mainly on interviews and elements of associative sound- and picture work.
The time frame for this project is from February 2010 up until its first screening and presentation in February 2011.

http://acousmatics.blogspot.com

Project leader: Leif Eriksson, lecturer in postproduction at the School of Film Directing

THE SHOOTINGS AT ’VASAPLATSEN’

(‘Vasaplatsen’ being a public square and tram/bus junction in Gothenburg) 2010

The Shootings at ’Vasaplatsen’ is about three fatal minutes when the police opened fire on EU demonstrators and injured one of the demonstrators severely. Never before have so many cameras (over 100 video cameras) documented one and the same incident from different perspectives – and never before has it been so clearly illustrated how the moving image has been abused and distorted by the police and by prosecutors in the judicial proceedings that followed.
In 6 points, Göran du Rées has formulated an approach for how film and the moving image should be used as evidence in court cases in future. Several of these points are based on lines of argument used when discussing Time and Space in film theory.

A report will be presented in 2010.

Project leader: Göran du Rées, Professor at the School of Film Directing

NON-LINEAR NARRATION IN FILM 2010


Lena Israel’s point of departure is the interdisciplinary research she has worked with previously, primarily in her dissertation Film Dramaturgy and Everyday Thought. She expands the concept epical-lyrical film through an analysis of different types of existing non-linear narration in modern film and possible new creations.
Lena Israel further develops theories and models from Film Theory and combines these with theories from sociology, psychology, philosophy together with literary history and the history of art. This work will, apart from other forums, take place in cooperation with students at the School of Film Directing, in discussions and also in analyses of the students’ own film works.

This development work resulted in a poetic documentary film and also in a research article that was published in a book in 2010.

Project leader: Lena Israel, former Senior Lecturer in Film Theory at the School of Film Directing at the University of Gothenburg, and Senior Lecturer at the University College of Halmstad

ANXIETY AND GARDENING - WORK IN PROGRESS


”Anxiety and Gardening” is a personal filmic essay about enjoyment and control, freedom and security, possession and compulsion, a longing for beauty and the hunt for status. It takes place in the gardens of people who have different relationships to gardening and life, in the borderland between an earthy dream and urban stress.
The aim of this project is:
- to try and develop the art of filmmaking and the forms of narration in documentary films
- together with colleagues and students, to become more conscious of filmic expression and the filmic essay on the border to other art forms.
The result will be presented in seminars with film sketches.
Project leader: Brita Landoff, maker of documentary films and former Senior Lecturer in Film Directing at the School of Film Directing

OUR TIME’S FEAR OF SERIOUSNESS 2008

This artistic development project deals with the documentation of Roy Andersson’s reflections and the aesthetics of artistic expression. The intention of this project is that it should be a complement to Roy Andersson’s interesting book Our Time’s Fear of Seriousness in order to take advantage of experiences after having viewed Roy Andersson’s later films (the latest being You, the Living).

At the ELIA* conference held in Gothenburg in October 2008, Roy Andersson, film director and Sven Erik Liedman, historian of ideas, were invited to have a talk based on Roy Andersson’s book ”Our Time’s Fear of Seriousness”; this talk was about the moving image as an important philosophical and moral issue in society today.

A report of this project was presented during the ELIA conference; it is also documented in a film.

Project leader: Gunilla Burstedt, Head of the School of Film Directing
* European League of Institutes of the Art

ABOUT QUALITY 2007

About Quality is a study of what conceptions the Swedish film industry has surrounding quality, the point of departure of which is the research surrounding cultural production and the research field organisation and gender.

The research project About Quality is based on in-depth interviews with film consultants and film producers in the film industry. These interviews have been analysed by an academic researcher, Jenny Lantz D. Ec. at the Stockholm School of Economics.

The report on the concept of quality was presented to the public at the Gothenburg Film Festival in February 2007 – in a seminar that was jointly arranged by the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at the University of Gothenburg, the University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre, Stockholm and the organisation Women In Film and Television (Wift). This report is used in courses at the School of Film Directing.

About Quality is distributed by Wift: Women in Film and Television, www.wift.se

Project leader: Gunilla Burstedt, Head of the School of Film Directing