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  • Talk at ASPERA 2016, ‘The filmmaker is present …’

    Talk at ASPERA 2016, ‘The filmmaker is present …’

    ‘The filmmaker is present – experiment, process, image – a practitioner’s talk about process as the focus of moving image works’, Louise Curham at the Australian Screen Production Education & Research Association 2016 conference, University of Canberra, July 5-7.

    What happens when we scrap pre-production, production, post-production instead focusing on process alone? I am going to discuss process-based experimental techniques as productive strategies to make moving image works.

    Why have I proposed this discussion for the screen production education and research community? The first reason is that you teach. I have used this process-only approach productively in my sporadic teaching activity.The second reason is research and re-enactment, one of the three strategies, is intrinsic to my PhD.

    The film industry talk about pre, prod and post as a process. Workflow strikes me as a better word for pre, prod and post, focused as it is on pre-conception, execution and delivery of a product. This thinking relies upon a pretty clear idea of what you want to achieve before you start and built into this pre-visualisation is a preconception of what success will look like. Of course, happy accidents occur and conversely, and things don’t turn out as planned but in essence, the work is laid out before you begin.

    My provocation is that there is much to be gained in a learning situation if the emphasis is on the learning process as an end in itself. Now I am not a professional educator. I’m making this statement from observations of myself at work and watching others in learning environments I’ve set up – my fairly frequent guest lectures and workshops.

    Intentional Malfunction 01

    Intentional Malfunction workshop participants dry their hand processed super 8 outside PhotoAccess, Manuka. Another image of this workshop heads up this post. (more…)

  • Talk for the 2015 Australian Society of Archivists conference, ‘Tending the Archive’ by Ihlein & Curham

    Talk for the 2015 Australian Society of Archivists conference, ‘Tending the Archive’ by Ihlein & Curham

    Talk presented by Louise Curham at the Australian Society of Archivists 40th annual conference, ‘Archives on the Edge’, Hobart, 20 August 2015 in Session 17, The Creative Perspective. The talk was based on the article ‘Reaching Through to the Object: Reenacting Malcolm Le Grice’s Horror Film 1’, (Ihlein & Curham, 2015), based on the Ihlein Curham collaborative project Teaching and Learning Cinema.

     Welcome and thank you. The abstract promised two of us, myself and Dr Lucas Ihlein, artist and media arts lecturer, at the University of Wollongong. Lucas unfortunately had to be in Canada on family duties and to present research at another conference.

    Here’s a statement of purpose – our aim with this talk is to put forward ideas that we think are relevant to the archival community that have emerged from our work with live art from the past. Our work involves a remaking process or ‘re-enactment’. In short this re-making process involves using existing archives and generating new ones. We try to get as close as we can to the original work. And yet as we ‘reach through’ to it, we find we must make changes to it because the conditions we find ourselves in are different from those when the work was originally created. This process sheds light on the original work, and the changes we make are subtle forms of new knowledge about it. It’s the generation of new knowledge in this process that we have come to think of as a kind of tending. Buried in ‘tending’ is an idea about ways to appropriately contribute to the record of the past and it’s this idea that is probably what is most relevant to you as archivists. And I’ve been hearing this as a bit of a theme in the conference. (more…)