RESEARCH PLAN / NOT YET OPEN

Make the shot bear the concept

The programme divides into a research seminar and a film practice lab. The seminar studies primary texts, terminology, scholars, and films; the lab converts concepts into shootable, editable, reviewable constraint exercises.

Planned programme · not open.

R / 08RESEARCH SEMINAR

Time-Image Research Seminar

Eight seminars move from Matter and Memory and Cinema 1 into Cinema 2, then through Rodowick, Bogue, Marrati, Deamer, Rancière, Martin-Jones, Pisters, and the contemporary death-image issue.

Universe of images & sensory-motor
Postwar rupture & the seer
Memory, virtuality & crystal
Sheets of past & peaks of present
Powers of the false & truth crisis
Body, brain & thought
World cinemas & de-centring Europe
Digitality, death & the Cinema 3 debate

Planned research deliverableA research essay with shot evidence, counterexamples, and a rigorous bibliography

P / 06FILM PRACTICE LAB

Time-Image Film Practice Lab

Six constraint exercises test action rupture, actual/virtual exchange, a coexisting past, irrational cuts, bodily attitudes, and sound’s own time.

01Shooting constraint02Collective screening03Concept audit04Second edit

Planned practice deliverableSix studies plus one 5–8 minute film that tests a concept

CONSTRAINTS PRODUCE THOUGHT

Six core exercises

Each exercise includes explicit constraints, a deliverable, and review questions; relations among shots provide the conceptual evidence.

P0190 min

Suspend action, intensify the shot

Film a character whose perception fails to become action. Keep psychology implicit; let space and sound bear the pressure.

≤6 shots · 2 min · sync sound

P02Half day

Build an actual–virtual circuit

Use performance, reflection, recording, or repetition so a second image copies and transforms the first in return. Criterion: reciprocal exchange.

Actual version + virtual version + exchange point

P03Half day

Compose the past in sheets

Let three sheets of the past emerge in one space through sound, objects, and bodily attitudes. Keep eras and recollection cues unmarked.

3–5 min scene + sheet-of-time map

P04120 min

Design an irrational cut

Film two series beyond spatial continuity and psychological causality. Use one cut to make them act upon each other while keeping the relation irreducible.

A/B series · one decisive cut

P05Half day

Generate thought from bodily attitude

Choose fatigue, waiting, awkwardness, or ritual and let social relations and theme emerge among attitudes.

Implicit theme · three attitude shifts

P0690 min

Give sound its own past

Give sound and image distinct temporal series, then let their autonomous structures meet at a boundary.

60–90 sec audio-visual study

PLANNED ETHICS & RIGHTS TEST

If the plan enters production, consent and rights records come first

Documentary exercises require informed consent, the context of testimony, and a stated editorial purpose. Use of films, music, and archives requires the rights holder, source, licence, territorial limits, and screening conditions.