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  • ARK-E1025 - Urban Narratives

    Background

    The course will focus around making a presentation that utilizes moving images in telling about an urban environment or phenomena. This can deal with the design the student is working on in her Studio, or some other location/issue - the goals of the assignment will be outlined by the student herself and discussed during the course.

    A set of lectures in the first spring period (period III) are meant to shed light on different viewpoints having to do with the moving image, and a series of 'seminars' in the last period (period V) are used as 'mid-term reviews' or discussion sessions, visitors discuss aspects of filmamaking and where students can present their work and thinking in progress. The IV period is meant for independent work, and starts with a visit to Aalto Studios.

    Completing the course entails attending the lectures, participating in discussion and submitting an assignment at the end of the semester, as well as presenting the assignment for the group. The assignment will be contain two parts, the first part will be presented at the end of period III, the second at the end of period V.

    Location: F101 (Väre)
    Time: Fridays, 9:15-12:00 (except when otherwise stated).

    Schedule (subject to change)
    12.01. First session. Introduction to the course. Lecture. Karin Krokfors. Professor, Urban Design, ARTS.
    19.01. Lecture: Screenwriting. Raija Talvio. Professor, Screenwriting, ARTS. Space: F102.
    26.01. Lecture: Documentary. Arturo Delgado Pereira. Professor, Documentary Film, ARTS.
    02.02. Lecture: Editing & Montage. Oskar Franzen. Cinema editor. Senior University Lecturer, ARTS.
    Zoom-link: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/61915858521
    09.02. Lecture: Cinematography & the Visual. Elen Lotman. Cinematographer and director. 
    16.02. Lecture: Installations & Video Art. Lauri Astala. Visual artist.
    23.02. Student presentations (first part) -schedule below (Storyboard presentation schedule)

    01.03. Visit to Aalto Studios at 9:15 - location Otakaari 7. (Aalto Studios map)

    19.04. Seminar I / Visiting tutor: Susanna Helke / Documentary filmmaker, Associate Professor, Head of Research, Director of Critical Cinema Lab.

    11:20 - 11:40 Sylvia Lee Ching Yi
    11:40 - 12:00 Brayden Tang

    26.04. Seminar II / Visiting tutor: Anni Vartola / Architect, Senior University Lecturer, Theory of Architecture.

    09:15 - 09:40 Inga Strauss
    09:40 - 10:05 Aurora Navarro Villacampa
    10:05 - 10:30 Ilona Pakarinen
    10:30 - 10:55 Miko Söderberg
    10:55 - 11:20 Denys Horodnyak

    03.05. Seminar III / Visiting tutor: Oskar Franzen / Cinema editor, Senior University Lecturer.

    09:15 - 09:40 Ilmari Valtonen
    09:40 - 10:05 Chengcheng Peng
    10:05 - 10:30 Josefina Feliu
    10:30 - 10:55 Yiwen Xu
    10:55 - 11:20 Mathilda Viigimäe
    11:20 - 11:45 Veera Annala

    10.05. No session.
    17.05. No session.
    24.05. Final Session. Deadline for finished movie. Screening of the movies: Maarintie 8, 2007 Odeion
    31.05. No session.

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