Experimental animation 1

Display Schedule

Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
309FIEX1 credit 3 2 hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 57 to 72 hours of self-study English winter

Subject guarantor

Matouš SVĚRÁK

Name of lecturer(s)

Matouš SVĚRÁK

Department

The subject provides Department of Animation

Contents

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the colorful world of experimental animation, its evolution, its wide expansion and blending with other media, and its relationship to free art and poetry. The course should also inspire the audience to look at the medium of animation from a different, unusual angle, and teach them the possibility of working without the formal or content limitations of established and proven filmmaking practices. Listeners will be assigned a short sound, image or animation exercise every other week where they will practice different ways of perceiving their own image, sound, narration, etc.

Lecture with projection and discussion, consultation of practical exercises

Learning outcomes

  1. To introduce the audience to the history, development and ramifications of experimental animation, to define and illuminate its ambiguous framework bordering on more mainstream work on the one hand and on free art on the other.
  2. To introduce the audience to the world of unlimited possibilities of self-expression through the medium of animation, to open their minds to new ways of narrating and processing the audio-visual medium of animation through practical exercises and peer discussions.

Prerequisites and other requirements

Basic knowledge of animation

Literature

R.Russett, C. Starr: Experimental Animation: Origins of a New Art

H. Smith: The Avantgarde in the American Vernacular

J.W. Goethe: The Theory of Colors

L.Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

W.Kandinsky: Concerning the Spiritual in Art

M.Rothko: The Artists Reality: Philosophies of Art

A.Breton: The Surrealist Manifesto

W.C.Williams: Spring and All

E. Bishop: North and South

Evaluation methods and criteria

100% participation, completion of exercises

Note

none

Schedule for winter semester 2025/2026:

06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
room LAZ-416
Room No. 416
(Lažanský palác)
SVĚRÁK M.
15:40–17:15
(parallel1)
Fri
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Thu 15:40–17:15 Matouš SVĚRÁK Room No. 416
Lažanský palác		 parallel1

Schedule for summer semester 2025/2026:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans