Narratives and experimentation / Video seminar - Moving Images / Histories, practices, devices

Teacher : Xavier Garcia Bardon

Moving images are, among other things, powerful decentering machines. They can interrogate, reveal or invent, in order to share them, other relationships to worlds, other perspectives, other possibilities of existence. This project has both formal and political dimensions. But what narratives do we need today, and how do we tell them? Based on this question, this seminar explores the rich relations between narration and experimentation, two terms too often considered in opposition. It is precisely their areas of friction, their points of encounter, that interest us here. Taking an open approach to the field of the moving image, and drawing on the fields of cinema (experimental, documentary, fictional) as well as audiovisual productions from the visual arts, music, performance, video games, popular and minority cultures, we'll see how multiple approaches enable the disarticulation and reconfiguration of narrative, narrative and formal invention, the reappropriation and reinvention of reality, and the creation of worlds. Guest artists, researchers, critics and programmers will regularly present their work and discuss it with students.

Seminar linked to the Master Narratives and Experimentation / Speculative Narration