Cinema and Visual Arts

The course explores the relationship between cinema and the visual arts through an intermedial and comparative perspective, looking at a selection of authors who have established dialogues between the filmic dimension and other visual languages, such as painting, photography, sculpture, architecture, video installation, and the tableau vivant. 
Among the directors that will be discussed during the course, whose work best expresses intermedial approaches to cinema, are: Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard, Andrej Tarkovskij, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Marguerite Duras, Wim Wenders, Harun Farocki, Chantal Akerman, Derek Jarman, Jon Jost, Terrence Malick, Peter Greenaway. 
The course will also look at examples of characters filming or taking pictures within the movie itself, providing an opportunity to reflect on “cinema within cinema”, and on phenomena of visual recording and archiving. A further trajectory that will be recalled concerns the assimilation of cinematic languages and techniques by the so-called “staged photography”, of which Jeff Wall and Cindy Sherman are among the major exponents.
Considering the cinematic framework also in terms of recollection and memory of the arts, and as atlas and visual archive, the course highlights aspects linked to the temporality of the image, its status and the dynamics and implications linked to its re-use and re-contextualization.

The annual theme of the MLLCI “Naturale / artificiale” (Natural / artificial) will be developed in the terms of the relationships between reality and artistic representation.

The course allows students to approach and deepen their understanding of film through its relationship with other visual arts.

In presenza

Lectures

Oral during examination period.

Further references and bibliographical materials will be provided during the course.