CA 334 Prerequisite Waiver Request (Fall 2024)
If you do not have the prerequisites for CA 334 but are interested in taking the course this Fall, please fill out the questionnaire below. Requests to enroll without the prerequisites will be considered on a case-by-case basis, and enrollment in the course is not guaranteed. After submitting the form, you will receive a reply from the instructor within 2-3 business days.
Course Description
COUNTER CINEMA: Archive Filmmaking as Resistance
September 4 鈥� December 3, 2024
Wednesdays, 2:30 PM 鈥� 5:20 PM
School for the Contemporary Arts \ 149 W. Hastings ST., Vancouver
Instructor: Chris Chong Chan Fui
Every sight and sound is imbued with a memory. In one form or another, these memories become captured/recorded whether by those who created those memories or by those who merely observed. Housed formally in library archives, private collections, or informally in a family home, these memories become audio and visual (AV) artefacts of a time and space. Our question as artists then becomes 鈥渨ho controls these memories?鈥� and 鈥渨hat could these memories mean to us today?鈥� As interrogators, you will respectfully appropriate and creatively express a critique of what you see and hear as it relates to where it comes from and where it could go.
This course looks to unsettle and disrupt the underrepresented images and sounds trapped in its colonial past and release it into a re-imagined future. Counter imaginings of our histories is one of the most important contemporary arts practices for artists in all disciplines today as a form of decolonization and decentralization. Reframing existing materials from institutional, informal, and personal archives, will be the foundation of the films you will make in this course.
No prior filmmaking experience required. Focus will be on the use of existing archival/collections/found footage AV materials online, therefore there will be limited use camera and sound recording devices. Basic film editing software knowledge is recommended (iMovie, Davinci Resolve, Audacity, or similar).