Film Theory and Practice: Foucault
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A Case Study from South Africa on the teaching of Film Theory via practice-based research. Presented to the CILECT African Regional Association Conference, "New trends in research, teaching and practice in motion picture production" Cape Town, 2012. By Alan Taylor and Gregory du Tertre.
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- 1. CARA: The CILECT African Regional Association 2012 Cape Town Conference: Through Film Praxis to Critical Theory - starring Michel Foucault A presentation by Alan Taylor & Greg du Tertre Film Program, TUT, South Africa April 30th 2012
- 2. Through Film Praxis to Critical Theory – starring Michel Foucault, by Alan Taylor, Greg du Tertre 1. Introduction, conceiving the assignment, Taylor 2. Applying the assignment, du Tertre 3. Film viewing: An Experiment in Time 4. Summary account q and a CILECT African Regional Association Conference / Cape Town/ April 30th 2012 2
- 3. “We already know theory is bad for us before it arrives because, like spinach, it is decided by others that it is good for us, that there is always lots of it and with no choice, that we must have it.” - Taylor CILECT African Regional Association Conference / Cape Town/ April 30th 2012 3
- 4. 1. The institution 2. The students 3. The curricular CILECT African Regional Association Conference / Cape Town/ April 30th 2012 4
- 5. Histories: The Hero's Journey 1971-2012 Pretoria Film School Motion Picture Academy Film Program CILECT African Regional Association Conference / Cape Town/ April 30th 2012 5
- 6. Profiles Prior Experience Scope of Current Knowledge CILECT African Regional Association Conference / Cape Town/ April 30th 2012 6
- 7. 30 25 24 Male 20 15 13 13 Female 11 11 10 7 8 Black 5 4 5 3 1 0 White State Private unsure TOTAL CILECT African Regional Association Conference / Cape Town/ April 30th 2012 7
- 8. CILECT African Regional Association Conference / Cape Town/ April 30th 2012 8
- 9. CILECT African Regional Association Conference / Cape Town/ April 30th 2012 9
- 10. The Curricular & The Place of Theory CILECT African Regional Association Conference / Cape Town/ April 30th 2012 10
- 11. Assignment Brief The Concept The Product CILECT African Regional Association Conference / Cape Town/ April 30th 2012 11
- 12. THE INDY MINDS ASSIGNMENT, a Aims Objectives Grading Criteria Deadline CILECT African Regional Association Conference / Cape Town/ April 30th 2012 12
- 13. THE INDY MINDS ASSIGNMENT, b Theorists Researchers Filmmakers CILECT African Regional Association Conference / Cape Town/ April 30th 2012 13
- 14. THE INDY MINDS ASSIGNMENT, c The Thinking The Theories Their Life CILECT African Regional Association Conference / Cape Town/ April 30th 2012 14
- 15. THE INDY MINDS ASSIGNMENT, d The Panopticon Scripting Production Process CILECT African Regional Association Conference / Cape Town/ April 30th 2012 15
- 16. :::::::::::::::: CILECT African Regional Association Conference / Cape Town/ April 30th 2012 16
- 17. CILECT African Regional Association Conference / Cape Town/ April 30th 2012 17
- 18. F I N A L T H O U G H T S CILECT African Regional Association Conference / Cape Town/ April 30th 2012 18
- 19. T Alan Taylor Professor, Film Program, TUT, RSA H Country Champion, Department of Education, University of Oxford A Contact: http://about.me/kinowords N Gregory du Tertre K University Lecturer, Production (pt) Postgraduate Research Student, TUT, RSA S Contact: http://about.me/gregdut 19
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- “You already know theory is bad for you before it arrives because, like spinach, it is decided by others that it is good for you, that you must have it that that there is always lots of it.” - Taylor, 2011Whether one is teaching and learning in a Film School or Art School, one recurring and increasingly fraught institutional complication emerges in answering the question: how are we to evolve essentially what were not long ago vocationally orientated curricular into the more academically demanding expectations of Higher Education to which most of us are now bound? The CILECT Conference of 2001 in Ljubljana was specifically focused on this issue. One of its several speakers, Tuula Mehtonon from Helsinki, crystallized the problem well: “Because our department is affiliated to a university, we are duty bound to direct students towards writing reflective and analytical material on their main subject”. Eleven years on, this talk and accompanying short film presentation is designed to contribute to this debate both within CILECT and beyond. It will detail one recent attempt by the speakers to extend and elaborate upon film student’s zones of proximal development - by directly engaging, that is, vocationally- orientated senior students with the sometimes forbidding realm of the critical tradition. As such the talk will explore the ‘Indy Minds’ Assignment Project as it was conceived at the Tshwane University Film Programme in 2011 where, not incidentally, the theory and analysis ‘spinach’ strand is a uniquely compulsory element across the curricular for all students.While Course Leader Dr. Alan Taylor will initially share the pedagogic considerations and strategies behind ‘Indy Minds’, senior student Gregory du Tertre (2012 M-tech student, proposed) will present and reflect upon his experience as director/writer of his team’s resultant 5 minute film - with its dramatic focus on a key plot point in the life and times of a leading critical thinker and author.The 20 minute talk and viewing will, it is hoped, prompt further debate concerning the raising the informed praxis of our new millennium Film Students and advance thereby our own duty-bound remit as recalled from Ljubljana, 2001.” END
- The present Film Programme of the TUT was actually founded as the Pretoria Film School I 197 by Jamie Uys. Since then it has formed as the Motion Picture Academy whole part of the Teknikon of Pretoria and now cached inside Africa’s larges University of Technology. The present Film Programme curricular content, from directing, cinematography, through editing, directing, sound and technology, echoes standard courses that might be found around the world. As for the theory course is actually compulsory across the four-year programme and, like all other courses, is grounded by statute on inherited Study Guide determinations.
- The present Film Programme of the TUT was actually founded as the Pretoria Film School I 197 by Jamie Uys. Since then it has formed as the Motion Picture Academy whole part of the Teknikon of Pretoria and now cached inside Africa’s larges University of Technology. The present Film Programme curricular content, from directing, cinematography, through editing, directing, sound and technology, echoes standard courses that might be found around the world. As for the theory course is actually compulsory across the four-year programme and, like all other courses, is grounded by statute on inherited Study Guide determinations.
- The present Film Programme of the TUT was actually founded as the Pretoria Film School I 197 by Jamie Uys. Since then it has formed as the Motion Picture Academy whole part of the Teknikon of Pretoria and now cached inside Africa’s larges University of Technology. The present Film Programme curricular content, from directing, cinematography, through editing, directing, sound and technology, echoes standard courses that might be found around the world. As for the theory course is actually compulsory across the four-year programme and, like all other courses, is grounded by statute on inherited Study Guide determinations.
- The present Film Programme of the TUT was actually founded as the Pretoria Film School in 1971 by Jamie Uys. Since then it has formed as the Motion Picture Academy while part of the Technicon of Pretoria and is now cached inside Africa’s larges University of Technology. The present Film Programme curricular content, from directing, cinematography, through editing, directing, sound and technology, echoes standard courses that might be found around the world. As for the theory course is actually compulsory across the four-year programme and, like all other courses, is grounded by statute on inherited Study Guide determinations.