studio description

You’ve most likely written a list, whether it be a to-do list, shopping list, bucket list or checklist. We often use these lists as useful ways to declutter our heads and organise our thoughts. In an online context, Buzzfeed, Letterboxd, Pinterest, and Reddit organise content into evocative lists for your entertainment. In film, shot lists organise a shoot and lists have been used as an experimental way to creatively eschew narrative. Umberto Eco, in a book completely devoted to lists, proposes lists evoke the “infinite” in literature. In Infinite Lists, you will conceptually explore how the various practices of listing allow for poetic media artefacts.Through readings, test exercises, and a final larger scale project, you will work individually and collaboratively to conceptualise what the list performs and how you might then use it as a basis to produce poetic media artefacts. Further, by making linear projects for cinema screens and multilinear work for online spaces, you will explore why the list as a form has become so prevalent on the Internet. You will leave this studio with the skills to produce creative and technically accomplished media artefacts, develop media appropriate for cinema and online distribution, and grasp the potential of the list as an evocative communication device.

Dr. Hannah Brasier has taught in the school of Media & Communication at RMIT for the past five years. Her research is interested in how we can use new media forms to engage with the world ecologically, with a specific focus on nonfiction and online content. Her film work is interactive, experimental and includes a wide range of palm trees.