The UPV New Year's Day Lecture
The UPV New Year's Day Lecture
24hr Access to Maps, Flaps, & Infinite Wallpaper
Dear Students, Alumni, Faculty, and Trespassers,
Merry Twixtmas if you celebrate this void on the calendar.
Twixtmas means that Boxing Day has passed and New Year’s day hasn’t passed. I mentioned in my last bulletin that the school would present a Boxing Day lecture. We didn’t. It will take place on New Year’s Day of 2021 instead. The cusp.
The topic is set design/world design, with a cardboard and paper flavour. The module is called:
Maps, Flaps, & Infinite Wallpaper: Set design that folds neatly away in the mind.
The video is presented in co-operation with the marvellous Slow Film Festival. It will be accessible on this page:
It will be accessible for 24 hours, from midnight to midnight, Greenwich Meridian Time, on 1st January 2021. (In fact, the lecture was prepared less than half a mile from Greenwich’s Royal Observatory. For optimum punctuality).
The lecture lasts around 45 minutes.
I would like to apologise in advance for mentioning Stanley Kubrick and Christopher Nolan. More “No Film School” than “Unfound Peoples Videotechnic”! But the mentions are brief, and the Nolan references are disparaging.
Messrs Greenaway, Maddin, and Tarr are also referenced. Altogether too many Messrs. Although the latter three are bona fide cornerstones of the cinema of doubt.
That’s all for now. Class dismissed! But also, class summoned.
~Graeme Cole.
(Principal)
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