I have been asked by student Marcin Wozniak to start a film group. His idea was to make it slightly different. The idea was to show a film each week but with limited space around the university, adapt to that. For example one week a film could be projected in the studio, the next in a lecture theatre, or even on someones laptop. Each will work around the style of film, and how many people should wish to attend. Having both studied the lectures 'Alternative History of Film and Video', and working with video it is clear it is a common ground and something that we are both influenced by.
The plan was to show a film every thursday and throughout the week it would be planned where it would be shown. It is open to all students and hopefully the outcome will be that a dedicated group would form.
Everyone can bring it films they find interesting and after the film a discussion would commence.
The First film that was shown was Derek Jarmans 'Blue'. Jarman himself was dying of HIV and when making the film he lost his vision. It was said that this the colour blue was all he could see. The hour and a half film is just the colour blue, nothing happens and nothing changes. There is narration from different characters as you follow Jarman's journey which gets more and more delusional and harder to follow.
I was expecting my eyes would begin to play tricks on me and that I would imagine shapes in the blue. This didn't seem to happen and I felt I began to lose interest in the dialog no matter how hard I concentrated.
The Discussion after was very helpful as everyone had an opinion on the film and why. Also parts people were unclear about were made clear by others. I had no idea there were blatant references to sexuality during the film. I found that the language was hard to follow.
This was just a practice run as to how the video group may work and it seemed successful.
Due to it being a very busy term the video group has not been a main priority but it something that will hopefully be hosted every week next year.
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