Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
| Master in performing arts (120 ECTS) | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course is split into two parts. The first is clearly historical and is supplemented with screenings. It reviews the main documentary film directors working in Belgium between the 1920s and the 1990s in different areas of documentary cinema, including colonial films and art films (Henri Storck, Charles Dekeukeleire, André Cauvin, Emile Degelin, Paul Haesaerts, Edmond Bernhard, Paul Meyer, Luc de Heusch, André Delvaux, etc.). The second part is made up of presentations by the students, about the documentary making by a few contemporary filmmakers. These presentations are extended by the public screening of a film directed by the filmmaker, who is invited to introduce his film and discuss with the audience.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The specific aim of this course is initially to discover the essential pieces of work of documentary cinema in Belgium and the often difficult conditions under which it is practiced. More widely, it involves sensitising students to a wide range of different approaches and to help them perceive how the documentary film in Belgium is both exceptionally inventive and creative, a field of reflection, debate and tension, as much aesthetic as ideological. It also aims to give students an opportunity to tackle the most burning social issues up close, while facing up to the fundamental challenges of film making.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
This course is an extension of the course on Contemporary Documentary Cinema (Ms Van Cauwenberge).
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
All students enrolled in this course will lead a session devoted to a contemporary film director. Students will present the director's work and approach, will screen a selection of films or extracts from representative films and will comment on and analyse them in such a way that the other students will have a good knowledge of the director's work before meeting him or her at the following session. A summary document will be distributed to students.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Recommended or required readings
No syllabus: compulsory note taking.
Assessment methods and criteria
The oral presentation and the written version of it will be the subject of the final evaluation. Assessment criteria: quality of information and documentation, quality and clarity of the oral presentation, subtlety of the analysis, quality of interaction with the directors.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Lecturer: Marc-Emmanuel Mélon, lecturer
Department of the arts and sciences of communication - cinema and audiovisual arts section, Place du 20 Août, 7 - Building A1 - 2nd floor - tel. 04.366.32.55 ME.Melon@ulg.ac.be
Assistant: Jonathan Thonon
Place du XX-Août, 7, 4000 Liège. Tel.: +32 (0)4 366 52 32.- jthonon@ulg.ac.be