Seeing the Unseen is a media studio run by Hannah Brasier out of RMIT’s media program for Media 2 and Media 4 students.
A lot of filmmaking is about re-creating an idea that existed beforehand, even in documentary. There are not many films that actually ‘look.’
Silke Panse, Land as Protagonist – An Interview with James Benning, 2013
How can media artefacts emerge through practices of attuned noticing?
Description
As cars drive past in Melbourne traffic, you wait for a tram, and so does that person over there, drops of water glisten as sunlight catches them on the glass barrier of the tram stop, woven baskets are stacked haphazardly on the footpath outside a grocery store, the sign above you says three minutes until the tram arrives, the tiny circular lights on a forty km/h speed limit sign flash on and off, smoke emerges out of pipes in the distance, the tram arrives, you hop on. In Seeing the Unseen you will explore how nonfiction media (whether sound, installation, film) can emerge through practices of attuned noticing.
Through researching noticing as a framework for practice this studio will look at how attuned noticing might become a way of unveiling patterns in the world. The types of things which often get left on the cutting room floor, when we create stories which simplify, minimise, subtract and contract what is out there. By “actually look[ing]” your projects may come closer to performing the complexities of the world.
In this studio you will make nonfiction media through iterations of experimenting with what noticing can do. Through this process you will be exposed to experimental modes of making and distributing nonfiction media. A subscription to Adobe Creative Suite and/or Korsakow may be required.
Aims of the Studio
- To grasp noticing as an experimental approach to making nonfiction
- To explore the creative possibilities of making media outside of traditional linear production methods
- To create media artefacts which come closer to performing the complexity of the changing world around us