Contemporary African screen culture also moves through music video, installation, performance, gallery work, social media and transmedia projects.
Lesson goal
Analyze contemporary moving-image practices beyond conventional cinema formats.
Module
Genres, Futurities, Hybrid Documentary and Experimental Forms
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Formation 09 lecture placeholder · Experimental Forms: Music, Video Art, Installation, Performance and Transmedia
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Situate music, video art, installation, performance and transmedia through period, method, institutions, audiences and circulation.
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Study authorship, popular industries, genres, platforms, archives, politics, cities and publics.
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Turn the analysis into a program, critical dossier, Shot Atlas note, CineMap record, CineUbuntu debate or festival brief.
Contemporary African cinema is not one style, one market or one festival category. It includes auteur films, popular industries, series, YouTube circulation, diasporic works, documentaries, archives, genre films, experimental practices and new publics.
Contemporary African screen culture also moves through music video, installation, performance, gallery work, social media and transmedia projects.
Discussion prompt
Which contemporary force is most visible here: form, industry, platform, politics, audience, archive or circulation?
Exercise prompt
Document one non-traditional screen work and explain how its form changes its audience experience.
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