Undergraduate Course: Introduction to the Moving Image: Expanded History of Cinema (ARTX08089)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | At the beginning of the 21st century, the digital revolution accelerated the migration of moving images from cinemas to exhibition spaces. Now that people are born into a world filled with cameras, this course provides a framework to learn from the moving image in its myriad forms.
Through a series of lectures, seminars, screenings, and workshops, the course will equip students with methods of thinking in pictures to develop a moving image artwork. |
| Course description |
Throughout the 20th Century, the film experience was predominantly identified with the cinema space. Today, the digital revolution has freed film from the big screen. Film has become again as multi-faceted as it was before its first screening, when moving image was experienced via magic lanterns, shadow puppets, or optical toys. The cultural influence of film is visible in the ways it has affected the perception of time, subjectivities, or the shaping of collective representations. In doing so, it has also transformed how art is made and studied. This course provides a framework to learn from the history of moving image in its many forms and manifestations. Students will develop their own moving image artwork in response.
The course is taught across 11 3-hour weekly sessions. In the first 4 sessions, students are introduced to historical and contemporary experimental film and moving image practices through a series of short lectures and screenings followed by discussion-based seminars and practical tasks that respond to the course material. In weeks 5-10, students develop their own project, from an initial visual proposal to a completed artwork. In the final week, the artworks are exhibited/screened as part of a group presentation.
The student¿s project is discussed and supported through workshops, group and individual tutorials. Students are expected to enrich their learning experience through a minimum of 5 hours of independent study each week. This will involve preparatory readings and viewings in advance of lectures and seminars and engaging with the Scottish film/moving image community through independent visits to local screenings and events.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Priority will be given to those on a degree programme in the School of Art, but enrolment for outside students will open in Welcome Week.
To fully participate in this course students are recommended to budget a minimum of £40.00 in total. £20 of which is for general art materials such as sketchbooks, pens, pencils, paper.
Basic materials specific to courses activities will be provided.
This Course requires additional costs to be met by the Student. Course Organisers will support you in meeting intended learning outcomes while keeping material costs to a minimum, however, depending on your project focus within the course, you may optionally choose to incur costs associated with realising aspects of your work. Such costs are not compulsory, would depend on the nature of your project.
There are also required travel costs associated with a field trip of £20 and students should budget to accommodate this cost. |
| Additional Costs | To fully participate in this course students are recommended to budget a minimum of £40.00 in total. £20 of which is for general art materials such as sketchbooks, pens, pencils, paper.
Basic materials specific to courses activities will be provided.
This Course requires additional costs to be met by the Student. Course Organisers will support you in meeting intended learning outcomes while keeping material costs to a minimum, however, depending on your project focus within the course, you may optionally choose to incur costs associated with realising aspects of your work. Such costs are not compulsory, would depend on the nature of your project.
There are also required travel costs associated with a field trip of £20 and students should budget to accommodate this cost. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2025/26, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 40 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 16,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 2,
External Visit Hours 3,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
162 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
This course has 2 assessment components.
1. A visual proposal for a moving image artwork to be submitted on Learn (Week 6-7, 10-20 pages, image and text, approximately 250 words), 40%, assessed against Learning Outcome 1.
2. A moving image artwork and a written statement to be submitted on Learn in Week 11 (PDF with a video link to your moving image artwork, 5 mins maximum, and a 500-word statement), 60%, assessed against Learning Outcome 2 and 3.
Resit information:
This course has 2 assessment components.
1. A visual proposal for a moving image artwork to be submitted on Learn (10-20 pages, image and text, approximately 250 words), 40%, assessed against Learning Outcome 1.
2. A moving image artwork and a written statement to be submitted on Learn (PDF with a video link to your moving image artwork, 5 mins maximum, and a 500-word statement), 60%, assessed against Learning Outcome 2 and 3. |
| Feedback |
Formative Feedback
Component 1: students receive formative verbal feedback/feedforward from their tutor during group tutorials (weeks 2-5) as they develop their proposal.
Component 2: students receive formative verbal feedback/feedforward from their tutor when presenting individually a draft of their short moving image artwork (Week 8-9).
Summative Feedback
After uploading the 2 assessment components on Learn, students receive written feedback by their tutor based on the course Learning Outcomes.
Summative feedback will be provided according to the University regulations.
The summative feedback for Component 1 feeds directly into the development of Component 2.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of characteristic film processes and forms in a proposal for a moving image artwork.
- Identify and apply a range of appropriate techniques for the production of a short moving image artwork.
- Discuss the relationship between the form and content of their moving image artwork in a short-written statement.
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Learning Resources
- Balsom, Erika and Peleg, Hila (2022). Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image. Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Curtis, David (2021, first published: 2006). Artists' Film - World of Art. London: Thames and Hudson.
- Orléan, Matthieu (2023). Scrapbooks. Paris: Delpire & Co.
- Rees, Alan Leonard [and others] (2011). Expanded Cinema: Art, Performance, Film. London: Tate Gallery.
- Salmon, Margaret (2023). Cinematographa. Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Research and enquiry: Learning from a variety of art forms and contexts will enhance your ability to make connections and apply knowledge across disciplines.
Personal and intellectual autonomy: By creatively using given constraints and limitations, you will develop autonomous skills in planning and identifying solutions for problem solving.
Communication: Associating complex ideas and arguments in visual forms using a range of media will help you to gain confidence to engage effectively with other students and audiences.
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| Keywords | moving image,pre cinema,paracinema,expanded cinema,visual thinking,artists films |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Aurelien Froment
Tel: (0131 6)51 5882
Email: Aurelien.Froment@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Nanami Chen
Tel:
Email: ychen7@ed.ac.uk |
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