Art on Film
Five-week course
Saturday 31 October 2015 12.30 - 4pm
The Reynolds Room, Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts
£160 for all five sessions.
Terms and conditions
This course has been cancelled, but is being rescheduled for 2016 – for more information please contact Mary Ealden, Courses and Classes Coordinator, on 020 7300 5641 or mary.ealden@royalacademy.org.uk
Each week students explore a different genre response to the arts, including satire and artist biography, through the screening of a key feature with accompanying shorts, followed by a discussion.
31 October, 7, 14, 21 and 28 November 2015; 12.30pm–4pm each day.
Individual sessions are available at £35 per session, or £160 for all five sessions.
About the course leader - Ian Christie
Ian Christie is a film historian, curator, broadcaster and consultant, and has been Anniversary Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck College, University of London, since 1999. Ian has written and edited books on early film, Powell and Pressburger, Russian cinema, Scorsese and Gilliam; and worked on exhibitions ranging from Film as Film (Hayward,1979), Eisenstein: His Life and Art (MoMA Oxford, 1988) and Twilight of the Tsars (Hayward, 1991) to Spellbound: Art and Film (Hayward, 1996) and Modernism: Designing a New World (V&A, 2006). Ian also contributes regularly to radio and television programmes on cinema. These have included essays on Harold Pinter as screenwriter and on Bach as a film composer for Radio Three, as well as interviews for The Hundred Scariest Movies, The Thirties in Colour (BBC4), Scotland on Screen (BBC2), Rude Britannia, Dive! Dive! Dive!, Strictly Courtroom and Epics (BBC4).
This course is suitable for all levels of experience.
Each week there will be a screening of a key feature with accompanying shorts, followed by a discussion and wine reception.
Our short courses and classes offer the opportunity to explore subjects ranging from life drawing to the history of portraiture, led by expert tutors and practising artists. These courses introduce traditional art-making processes, as well as perspectives on the history of art and language.
For further information and enquiries, please contact Mary Ealden, Courses and Classes Coordinator, on 020 7300 8079 or mary.ealden@royalacademy.org.uk