Credits: 2
Schedule: 15.04.2019 - 18.04.2019
Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):
Satu Kyösola (satu.kyosola@aalto.fi)
Olaf Möller (shosukester@googlemail.com)
Learning Outcomes (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020): Opiskelija syventyy vuosittain vaihtuvien kurssien kautta elokuvan historian erilaisiin aihepiireihin kuten elokuvan lajityyppeihin, merkittäviin ohjaajiin, erityisteemoihin tai elokuvan ja muiden taiteenlajien yhtymäkohtiin.
Content (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020): Kurssien sisällöt vaihtuvat vuosittain. Sisältökuvaukset päivitetään kurssiesitteeseen ennen lukukauden alkua.
Details on the course content (applies in this implementation):
When Daily Life Was Extraordinary: Documentary Cinema in People’s Poland and After (week 16)
Documentary cinema was always a political battlefield: What’s real to one might look like a gross falsification to the other. How close can we get to the real by “merely” filming it? How “real” is the world we see and touch – in realpolitical terms? And aren’t often the disruptions more telling cum typical than the day-to-day-ordinary? Poland developed an especially rich, complex and contradiction-happy documentary culture after 1945: While some pre-WWII experiments already suggested a variety of unique sensibilities at work and play, things really started to get going under state communist rule – People’s Poland quickly became part of the international non-fiction vanguard, a place and role the country never relinquished since, no matter the political system. During the course we’ll look at a vast variety of examples ranging aesthetically from full-fledged direct cinema via various experimental approaches to more personal, essayistic attempts at making sense of life. In that, Polish documentary cinema might reveal itself as a highly condensed version of all non-fiction can be…
Assessment Methods and Criteria (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020): Hyväksytty – hylätty / arviointi asteikolla 0 – 5
Workload (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020): Lähiopetus: katselut, luennot, keskustelut (yhteensä 27 tuntia)
Itsenäinen työskentely: essee tai luentopäiväkirja (27 tuntia)
Study Material (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020): Kursseja tukevat kirjallisuuslistat päivitetään kurssiesitteeseen kurssien yhteydessä.
Prerequisites (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020): Suositellaan elokuvan historian kurssien 1 – 4 suorittamista ennen elokuvan historian erityisalueiden kursseja.
Additional information for the course (applies in this implementation):
Olaf Möller will give instructions for the personnal assignements (essays) during the teaching week.
Details on the schedule (applies in this implementation):
Olaf Möller's course takes place from Monday April 15th to Thursday April 18th, everyday from 9 am to 4 pm.
There are two different screening venues: Orion (Eerikinkatu 15) and Kino Tulio (Sörnäisten rantatie 25 A 5, 5th floor). Please, follow these schedules:
- Teacher: Kyösola Satu