FLM610 Cine-Museology: Theorising Cinema and the Museum Course Outline Syllabus and Module Programme 2019/20

Semester: 6 Level: 6 Credit Value: 15 Pre-requisites: FLM003 Module Convener: Dr Jenny Chamarette ([email protected]) Course structure: 150 hours comprising 10 hours of scheduled lectures; 10 hours of scheduled seminars; 4 hours of external visits; 126 hours of independent study. Lectures and seminars will be complemented by film screenings

Assessment:

1) one 1500 word critical evaluation of an exhibition (40%), due via QMplus by 23:55pm on Sunday 1 December 2019; 2) one 2500 word essay responding to one of a range of either set or free questions. (60%), due via QMplus by 23:55PM on Sunday 8 January 2020 (ASSOCIATE STUDENTS ONLY: 23:55pm on Sunday 13 December 2019)

Module description

This module explores the relationships of cinema (as an institution, as a space, and as a concept) to the institutional, spatial and conceptual contexts of the museum. The museum has in recent years become a repository for film as a museum object in its own right; however, film has haunted the corridors of museums since its earliest invention. In this module, we explore the connections and disconnections between cinematic and museal spaces, using theoretical concepts from museology, the archive, exhibition and curatorial theory to make sense of the plurality of film and the moving image in museums, and indeed the 'museum' in the moving image. Making use of as an ideal base for interrogating some of these encounters between cinema, the moving image, and museums, the module will also explore the interventions of film across other disciplines, including Art History, Museum Studies, Anthropology and the Digital Humanities. We will explore both actual and virtual museums, through a range of film material from Europe, North America, the Middle East, drawing upon concepts such as 'film as a virtual museum', 'cinematic exhibition practices', 'film as museology', and 'the ethics of ethnographic film'.

Module aims

This module addresses current research in a burgeoning interdisciplinary field. Building on the Film Department's existing expertise in media and film archaeology, this module follows a both a cultural historical and philosophical approach to cinema whereby it is explored beyond the textual conceptualisations of feature film, and always in relation to its engagement with a cultural and social world. Students will be encouraged to reflect deeply on the critical, spatial and cultural contexts of the moving image, bringing into consideration its relationships to other cultural

1 institutions beyond the cinema (principally the museum). The interdisciplinary context of the module will also introduce students to key concepts in what is described as 'the new museology', with particular emphasis on value and truth claims placed upon objects within cultural institutional settings, and the inevitable postcolonial, ideological and ethical consequences of spatial and institutional contexts. Students will be encouraged to make use of London as a base for their own explorations of cinema and the museum, and structured field trips will form the basis of learning beyond the classroom.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

• demonstrate awareness of the institutional, conceptual, spatial and experiential relationships between the cinema and the museum, in a variety of 20th and 21st century contexts • outline in detail the key theoretical issues relating to cinema and the museum • describe how spatial contexts and institutional ideologies can shape the place and status of film • critically evaluate examples of films, exhibitions, or curatorial practices which highlight the theoretical and conceptual contexts of film and the museum • combine skills in film analysis and critical thinking to explore interdisciplinary uses of film • debate what is particular to the relationship between cinema and the museum, and how this has wider ramifications for the status and future of cinema • construct persuasive and well supported arguments about specific case studies of films, exhibitions or collections • understand the global implications of institutional practices and take a global perspective on developments in cinema and the museum

Bibliography and Further Reading

Extracts from many of the key texts for the module can be found on the QMplus course page, but you are strongly encouraged to read further and more broadly – this may mean accessing the collections at Senate House and the British Library. This list is not comprehensive, but should give you plenty of pointers for further thinking about this topic.

Adorno, Theodor, ‘Valery Proust Museum’, in Prisms (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1982) pp. Baecque, Antoine de, Camera Historica: The Century in Cinema (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012) Bal, Mieke, Looking In: The Art of Viewing (Amsterdam: OPA, 2001) Bataille, Georges, Prehistoric painting : Lascaux, or, The birth of art (Lausanne: Skira, 1955)

2 Battro, Antonio M. 'From Malraux's Imaginary Museum to the Virtual Museum' in Museums in a Digital Age ed. Ross Parry (London: Routledge), pp138-147 Benjamin, Walter, The Arcades Project (Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Belknap Press, 1999) Benjamin, Walter, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ in Illuminations ed. Hannah Arendt (London: Pimlico 1999 [1968]), pp211-244 Berger, John, Ways of Seeing (London: Penguin, reprinted 2008) Bourdieu, Pierre, and Alan Darbel, The Love of Art: European Museums and Their Audiences (Cambridge; Polity, 1990) Brown, Bill, ‘Objects, Others and Us’, Critical Enquiry, 36, (Winter 2010) 183 -217 Bruno, Giuliana, Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture and Film (London: Verso, 2002) Bruno, Giuliana, Public Intimacy: Architecture and the Visual Arts (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2007) Chamarette, Jenny ‘Visible and Invisible Institutions: Cinema in the French Art Museum’ in Michelle Henning (ed.) Museum Media (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015) pp95-119 Conn, Steven, Do Museums Still Need Objects? (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010) Connolly, Maeve, The Place of Artists' Cinema: Space, Site and Screen (London: Intellect, 2009) Crimp, Douglas, On the Museum's Ruins (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1993) Dalle Vacche, Angela (ed.) Film, Art, New Media: Museum Without Walls? (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) Dalle Vacche, Angela, Cinema and Painting: How Art is Used in Film (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996) Derrida, Jacques, Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996) Elsaesser, Thomas 'The “Return” of 3-D: On Some of the Logics and Genealogies of the Image in the Twenty-First Century', Critical Inquiry 39 (Winter 2013) 219-246 Erice/Kiarostami: Correspondence(s) (Paris/Barcelona: CCCB/Centre Pompidou, 2007) Foster, Hal, ‘An Archival impulse’, October, Vol. 110 (Autumn, 2004), pp. 3-22 Griffiths, Alison, Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums and the Immersive View (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008) Hall, Emily and Cassandra Heliezer, Still Moving: The Film and Media Collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York: MOMA, 2006) Henning, Michelle, Museums, Media and Cultural Theory (Maidenhead, England; New York: Open University Press, 2006) Huhtamo, Erkki, ‘On the Origins of the Virtual Museum’, Nobel Symposium on “Virtual Museums and Public Understanding of Science and Culture”, available at: http://130.237.143.81/nobel_organizations/nobelfoundation/symposia/interdiscipli nary/ns120/lectures/huhtamo.pdf Huyssen, Andreas, Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia (London: Routledge, 1995) Jacobs, Steven, Framing Pictures: Film and the Visual Arts (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2012)

3 Kavanagh, Gaynor, Dream Spaces: Memory and the Museum (London; New York: Leicester University Press, 2000) Kuiper, John, ‘Film as Museum Object’, Cinema Journal 24:4 (Summer 1985), 39-42 Kimberley Louagie, '"It Belongs in a Museum": The Image of Museums in American Film, 1985-1995', Journal of American Culture 19:4, 41-50 Lippitt, Akira Mizuta, Ex-Cinema: From the Theory of Experimental Film and Video (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012) Malraux, André, Museum Without Walls (London : Secker and Warburg, 1965) McNeill, Isabelle, Memory and the Moving Image: French Film in the Digital Era (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010 [pbk 2012]) Mulvey, Laura, Death 24 X a Second (London: Reaktion, 2005) Nagib, Lúcia and Anne Jerslev (eds.) Impure Cinema: Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film (London: IB Tauris, 2013) O'Doherty, Brian 'Notes on the Gallery Space', Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space (Santa Monica: Lapis Press, 1986) pp. 13-34 Parikka, Jussi, What is Media Archaeology? (Cambridge: Polity, 2012) Pascoe, David, Peter Greenaway: Museums and Moving Images (London: Reaktion, 1997) Peucker, Brigitte, The Material Image: Art and the Real in Film (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006) Pollock, Griselda, Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum: Time, Space and the Archive (London: Routledge, 2007) Putnam, James, Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium (London: Thames & Hudson, 2009) Rodowick, DN, The Virtual Life of Film (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2007) Russell, Catherine, Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999) Smith, Terry, Thinking Contemporary Curating (New York: Independent Curators International, 2012) Sperlinger, Mike et al, Kinomuseum: towards an artists' cinema (Oberhausen: Walter Koenig, 2008) Steedman, Carolyn, Dust (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001) Usai, Paolo Cherchi, The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory, and the Digital Dark Age (London: British Film Institute, 2001) Usai, Paolo Cherchi, ‘Film as an Art Object’ in Dan Nissen, Lisbeth Richter Larsen, Thomas C. Christensen, and Jesper Stub Johnsen (eds.) Preserve Then Show. (Copenhagen: Danish Film Institute, 2002) Wasson, Haidee, Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005) Witt, Michael, Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Historian (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013)

Filmography NB This is not an exhaustive list: screenings will vary from semester to semester and I’d strongly encourage you to add to your own viewing

4 Bande à Part (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964) Black Girl (La Noire de…) (Ousmane Sembène, 1966) Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog, 2011) Chronicle of a Summer (Jean Rouch, 1961) Cremaster Cycle (Matthew Barney, 1994-2002) Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes, 1986) Francofonia (Aleksandr Sokourov, 2015) Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming Liang, 2003) The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013) Histoire(s) du cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard, 1989-1998) Holy Motors (Léos Carax, 2012) Immemory (CD-ROM) (Chris Marker, 1997) The Innocence of Memories (Grant Gee, 2015) Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini , 1954) Last Year in Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961) Le Centre Georges Pompidou (Roberto Rossellini, 1977) Level Five (Chris Marker, 1997) Louvre City (Nicholas Philibert, 1991) Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present (Matthew Akers, Jeff Dupre, 2012) Me, A Black Man (Moi, un noir) (Jean Rouch, 1958) Museum Hours (Jem Cohen, 2012) Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, 1922) National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman, 2014) Night at the Museum (Shawn Levy, 2006) The Old Place (Jean-Luc Godard, 2000) The Phantom Museum (Quay Brothers, 2003) Remembrance of Things to Come (Chris Marker, 2003) Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokourov, 2002) Statues also Die (Alain Resnais and Chris Marker, 1953) Te Rua (Barry Barclay, 1991) The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg, 2018) Toute la mémoire du monde/All The Memory of the World (Alain Resnais, 1956) Unseen: The Lives of Looking (Dryden Goodwin, 2015) Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) Visage (Tsai Ming Liang, 2009)

Artists and Artist-filmmakers to consider (not an exhaustive list) Andrea Fraser Isaac Julien Anthony McCall Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller Atom Egoyan Kader Attia Bill Viola Lis Rhodes Camille Henrot Luke Fowler Chantal Akerman Margaret Tait Chris Marker Marina Abramovic Clio Barnard Michael Snow Douglas Gordon Nan Goldin Dryden Goodwin Paul Sharits

5 Peter Greenaway Tacita Dean Rose Lowder Theaster Gates Sonia Boyce William Raban Steven Dwoskin

Archives to consider (not exhaustive) Film Anthologies The Cinema Museum Stanley Kubrick Archives at the London The National Media Museum, College of Communication Special Bradford Collections The Science Museum British Film Institute Imperial War Museum

Contemporary Art Institutions and Museums to consider (in no particular order) Sir John Soane’s Museum, London Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, London Dennis Severs House, London Wellcome Collection, London Museum of London Imperial War Museum, London British Museum, London Modern and , London National Portrait Gallery, London Whitechapel Gallery, London The London Filmmakers’ Co-operative (now known as LUX) V&A Museum, London National Media Museum, Bradford Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Guggenheim Collection (Museums in New York, Venice, Bilbao) Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC J. Paul Getty Museum, LA The Louvre Museum, Paris Pompidou Centre, Paris Musée du Quai Branly, Paris Musée d’Orsay, Paris Fondation Maeght, St Paul de Vence, Provence Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg Egyptian Museum, Cairo

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FLM610 Cine-Museology: Theorising Cinema and the Museum Module Programme 2019/20 Week Topic Film viewing Introduction to the course None this week – try to see The Cinemuseology: film, art, space, narrative, Souvenir (Joanna Hogg, ) in history, politics cinemas or via online streaming (BFI-player/Curzon Home Movies) Museological critique: ethnography, Statues Also Die (Chris memory, and political cinema Marker/Alain Resnais, ) min http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=hzFeuiZKHcg Black Girl (Ousmane Sembène, ) min Protocinema: cinematic prehistory and Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner digital technologies Herzog, ) min Film as time-travel: animating the Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokourov museum, reviving cinema ) min w/ reference to La Jetée (Chris Marker, ) See also: Francofonia (Sokourov, ); Visage (Tsai Ling-Liang, ) *. Field trip to Lincoln’s Inn Fields Ghosts: the life (and death) of objects Vagabondia (Isaac Julien, ), The Phantom Museum (Brothers Quay, ) * Museum/gallery field trip – details to be No screening – field trip to confirmed via QMplus exhibition/museums. READING WEEK – NO LECTURES, SCREENINGS OR CLASSES THIS WEEK

* Rebuilding the B/black archive in Selected materials from artist’s contemporary art moving image/installation including Theaster Gates, Kader Attia, Rosalind Nashishibi and Lucy Skaer (https://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=DYhfsPJzQI) , Fiona Tan (https://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=dMhsqbmxA) Extracts from Te Rua (Barry Barclay, ) Contemporary art, performance, and the Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is (gendered) museum Present (Matthew Akers & Jeff Dupre, ) min

7 Also material from Andrea Fraser, Guerilla Girls, Camille Henrot, and others Waiting, watching: the temporality of Museum Hours (Jem Cohen, ) museum spaces min Exhibition assignment due end week Tutorials for essays/analysis feedback Tutorials for essays/analysis feedback Essay assignment due January No teaching – time with Advisors or for consultation with me

*Please note that these weeks may be subject to change, according to the availability of the Sir John Soane’s Museum to accommodate us.

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