Course

Peripheral Visions: The Ethnographic Camera - SAHT2633

Faculty: Faculty of Art & Design

School: School of Art & Design

Course Outline: Download course outline (PDF format)

Campus: Paddington

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

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Description

This course tracks the vital role of the camera in documentary, history, and the production of the real (archive, witness, testimony). From the invention of photography, to avant-garde explorations of cinema vérité, to the ‘intimate proximities’ of postcolonial hyper-realism, the course will progress through film screenings of major ethnographic filmmakers, artists and photographers. Post-documentary explorations of trauma, intercultural cinema hyper real ‘experiments with the truth’ conclude the course.
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