Before class:
Required
- With a notepad and pen in hand, watch Keepers of the Water: A Little Documentary (4:27) and Alchemical Cinema, Take 1: Nightfall in an urban oak savannah (5:33).
- Note down any words or draw any sketches that come to mind while watching the film. Bring these notes to class with you.
Recommended
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Wolfe, C., & Whiteman, M. (2016). Landscape and Inscription. Environmental Humanities, 8(1), 143–148.
During class:
Activities
- Three good things (5-7 minutes)
- Class discussion about required viewing (~20 minutes)
- These were two very different modes of recording encounters with Land.
- What affect, words, and imagery came up for you while watching?
- How might combining movement, sound, and imagery in video influence the encounters you choose to record on your walks?
- Re-watch videos together as a class, this time without sound (~20 minutes)
- Watch one and then spend 5 minutes free writing about your impression of the video now and how it might have changed or shifted from the first time you watched it.
- Repeat with the other video.
- Re-watch videos together as a class, this time without visuals (~20 minutes)
- Watch one and then spend 5 minutes free writing about your impression of the video now and how it might have changed or shifted from the first two times you watched it.
- Repeat with the other video.
After class:
- Continue your Attentive Repetition practice and Log entries.
- Next class we will meet outside in the courtyard, weather permitting. Please bring:
- a notepad or paper, of at least A5 dimensions, with at least ten blank pages,
- one or two pens or pencils with which you will be able to draw,
- a clipboard, book, or other firm surface on which drawing in your lap will be possible.
Madeline Donald 