Figgis gives a presentation based around how he made his film Time Code. The unique techniques he had to develop in order to organize and coordinate his innovative narrative structure which necessitated 4 streams of simultaneous narrative action. This video begins with a short chamber music performance featuring Figgis followed by a screening of an excerpt.
08/06/2008
Ronnel reads from her introduction to on Idiocy which explores the figure of Christ, through Dostoevsky, as a transcendental idiot. Her text emerges also in preparation for a discussion with Werner Herzog evoking their shared love of the inscribed outbursts of others, lunatics, maniacs.
Alessandro De Francesco, Italian poet and composer, introduced by Judith Balso, lecturing about poetry, love, language, politics, words and meaning in an open video lecture and seminar for the students and faculty at the European Graduate School, EGS Media and Communication Studies Department Program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
Miller presents an audio visual lecture on the philosophical and aesthetic issues of remix culture, something which emerges, he says from the "archival impulse" In the question session later, Miller describes his approach as a challenge to rationalism : software as pragmatic imagination.
Pierre Alferi, French poet and writer showing one of his movies, reading some of his works, talking about his work, films, writing, form, shapes, colors, ideas, dreams, poems, poetry, Isabel Löfgren, narrative, memory, identity, representation, meaning, and words. Free public open video lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, 2008.
Larry Rickels introduces artist Sue de Beer to the students of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communications Program Studies Department, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe. de Beer takes us through one of her installations which includes a Gysin/Burroughs Dream Machine.
Pierre Huyghe, French artist and filmmaker speaking about reality and virtuality, narrative, projection and memory in a free and open video lecture for the students and faculty at European Graduate School Media and Communication studies department program in Saas-Fee, Switzerland 2008. Pierre Huyghe.