General information about HDK-Valand

Personal student information

You will receive a student ID and a student e-mail address. We urge you to use this email address for all your correspondence. Emails are sent using the Canvas-platform email system.

Student Portal

The Gothenburg University has a student portal where you can find general information about the university as well as your courses. You can log into the portal using your student ID.

Student Guide

Each new academic year a ‘study guide’ is being published in which you can find general information about our HDK-Valand faculty, and the support structures that are available. This guide is being shared during the first weeks of the semester and will be added as a pdf to your MAFI11 Course on our digital learning environment Canvas.

Student Counselling

If you need help with planning your studies or need study support during your studies, for example when you have a disability that can effect your learning, we advise you to contact the Study Counsellors at HDK-Valand. Read more at My Studies.

Canvas

The Gothenburg University used the digital platform Canvas as the basic digital tool for learning. You have access to all your courses on Canvas upon enrolment in courses (This semester that are the courses MAFI11, MAFI12 and your Elective Course). All information about courses, all briefs and study material, as well as guides to equipment and regulations for production, are always published on this platform.

Your film courses on Canvas:

MAFI 11: https://canvas.gu.se/courses/69526

MAFI 12: https://canvas.gu.se/courses/69527

Time Edit

Detailed schedules for courses are always published and updated on the digital platform Time Edit. Log in with your student account, and then enter the code for your course (MAFI11 2023, MAFI12 2023 or your Elective Course) in the Time Edit search function to see the specific schedule. Information about locations for teaching can be found here too. Please note that schedules are subject to minor changes. We advise you to check the schedule regularly before all teaching moments. 

 

2022 MAFI11, MAFI12 Fall Semester

MAFI11 - Filmic Practice I (15 hp) and MAFI12 - Reflective Course (7,5 hp)

Throughout the fall courses, the group of six to ten students is introduced to the idea of ‘inquiry-led practices’ (artistic research practices). This is a practice in which we encourage students to find answers to problems, questions, or propositions by experimenting in and through the filmmaking practice. Through an iterative process of filmic/image-based and discursive work, speculative insights might lead to practical experiments (and vice versa) that will lead to new findings.

During this semester students will be exposed to various concepts in the context of research in and through practice. In addition, existing film material, one’s own and others, is processed and discussed, based on thematic and temporal aspects. The course aims to develop competencies with moving images’ expressive possibilities. In addition, this course provides the structure for continued examination and reflection of one’s own artistic approach(es).

 

Course Staff

Program director: Jyoti Mistry, jyoti.mistry@akademinvaland.gu.se

Course responsible: Mirka Duijn, mirka.duijn@gu.se

Participating teachers (with access to the course canvas-activity)

TBA

Learning Activities

The course’s educational bases and learning activities are:

Intensives

The MAFI11 Practical Course and the MAFI12 Reflection Course are interwoven, and will be conducted through individual assignments, seminars, workshops and group discussions that are organized in five 'intensives'; Intensive weeks of study. Each intensive revolves around a specific theoretical and practical proposition. An intensive usually spans three to four weeks, starting with a briefing moment and seminar in the first week of an intensive, to be followed up by several weeks of self-study towards a final Intensive Week with presentations and discussions.

Individual Learning

Briefs for the preparation for intensives are shared ± three weeks in advance of intensives. In this brief you will find all information about preparation for the intensive. This usually consists out of literature to read and films to watch as well as an audio-visual exercise. Please note: The weeks in between intensives are being kept free of teaching for you to prepare for the intensives. This is a full-time master, expect the workload in the weeks in between the intensives to be substantial.

Peer Learning

A major part of the intensives will exist out of student presentations and peer-feedback sessions. You will present visual exercises and propositions for inquiry-led practices at multiple moments during the semester. On these occasions, you, as a student, will also be asked to provide feedback to other students' work.

MA Forum

As a part of the MAFI12 Reflection Course MA Forum sessions will be organized. The MA Forum runs over two semesters, fall MA1, spring MA1. Each semester will have four sessions in total. The MA Forum is where Master students meet across programs (Film, Photography and Literary Composition) and are introduced to foundational concepts and theories that are valuable for developing a critical, artistic practice within a research environment. Being master students, you are all asked to do or think in terms of ‘research’. According to European law each master should be preparatory for a PhD, which means you should have the knowledge that is needed to conduct research. Artists and writers are propagated to do research in and through their art practice. This is research that departs from within an art practice - thinking through text, images and sounds, using art and the art practice as a conceptual framework, a methodological vehicle as well as a means of dissemination. In the MA Forum we reflect on different foundational concepts in the context of a research environment.

You will receive a brief with all information about each MA Forum session ± two weeks in advance of the MA Forum date. In this brief you will find all information about the preparation we ask you to do for the session. For the MA Forum you can i.e. be asked to read articles, watch clips or think about a proposed question. After each MA Forum we ask you to write a short reflection, in which you are always asked to connect the theoretical propositions posed during the MA Forum back to your own practice and inquiry-led project.

In-Between meetings

Each semester there will be three to four meetings dedicated to matters considering the wider context of your studies: from the educational content of your studies to practical concerns. For instance, questions about intensive briefs and student-led initiatives can be taken up in these sessions. Important to note that the In-Between meetings are not designated for course/intensives feedback and evaluations. For those, we have separate course evaluation moments.

We ask each group to appoint a Student Representative. This representative can collect agenda points for the In-Between from peers. 

Elective Courses

As a part of your education at HDK-Valand you will be offered ‘elective courses’, a selection of interdisciplinary courses. The elective courses are offered on Fridays. This is not part of MAFI 11 or MAFI 12 and therefore not added to this course guide.

 

Course Schedule 

A more detailed schedule will be available on Time Edit. You will have access to that upon registration for your courses. 

Week 35: Opening of the year, Intensive #1

Week 36: Introduction to the premises.

                  'After Work': Screening 

                  Seminar: Speculative Documentary (Erik Gandini)

                  Prep for Intensive #2

Week 37: Prep for Intensive #2

Week 38: Introduction to the Film Studio, Prep for Intensive #2

Week 39: Intensive #2 & MA Forum #1

Week 40: Prep for Intensive #3

Week 41: Structures of Learning Seminar, MA Forum #2

                  Intensive #3 Seminar

                  Prep for Intensive #3

Week 42: Intensive #3 & MA Forum #2

Week 43: Seminar for Intensive #4

                  Prep for Intensive #4

Week 44: Prep for Intensive #4, MA Forum #3

Week 45: Intensive #4 

Week 46: Parse Conference

                  Prep for Intensive #5

Week 47: In-Between meeting. Prep for Intensive #5

Week 48: Prep for Intensive #5

Week 49: Intensive #5 (Exam) & MA Forum #4

Week 50: Finalizing Exams

 

First week of the Fall Semester

2023 - 2024 First week Master of Film

Week 35	Mon 28/8 - Fri 1/9
Introduction week  Intensive #1:  I/Eye
Schedule & Locations: Check Time Edit Link: https://cloud.timeedit.net/gu/web/schema/ Log in with your student account and find your MAFI11 and MAFI12 Courses there.  The schedule and locations have also been added below in this document.

 

Welcome to your first week of study at HDK-Valand! During this start-up week you will be introduced to students and staff as well as the facilities of HDK-Valand. It will also be the week in which you will be having your first Intensive: An intensive moment of study, that revolves around a filmic assignment, with which we ask you to respond to a theoretical proposition. The week will exist out of the following events: 

Monday 28/8: Welcome to the Bachelor and Master of Film

On Monday 28/8 there will be two ‘Welcome to the BA and MA of Film’ occasions. On Monday between 09:00 and 10:00 we will gather for a general meet and greet with the film unit. From 13:00 - 16:00 there will be a longer event during which staff and students present themselves. 

Please prepare:

We ask everyone, students, and staff, to do a short presentation in which you introduce yourself to your (new) peers. Everyone has 2 minutes at their disposal. We ask you to prepare by selecting one picture or clip that means something to you. It could i.e., be something that relates to your own practice, or to you personally. The picture/clip can be from your own work but may also be someone else’s. Prepare a short presentation about yourself in relation to the selected clip or image. The clip and presentation together should last no longer than two minutes. Mail the picture or a link to your clip to Mirka Duijn: mirka.duijn@gu.se no later than Wednesday 23/8, 17.00. Images should be jpg and should not exceed 25 mb, video files should be H264, and should not exceed 500 mb. You can deliver them using a wetransfer-link or send it directly by mail. 

 

Monday 28/8: Welcome to HDK-Valand 

All HDK-Valand students are being welcomed to the faculty. In a two-hour session all new students at HDK-Valand get an introduction to Gothenburg University. 

 

Tuesday 29/8: Welcome to the master program 

On Tuesday morning 09:00 - 10:30 Mirka Duijn will give you a brief introduction to the MFA in Film, and its environment. 

 

Tuesday 29/8 - Thursday 31/8: Intensive #1, I/Eye

Tuesday 11:00 - Thursday 12:00: This is your very first intensive! An intensive can be described as ‘an intensive week of study’, that always revolves around a filmic exercise that is embedded in a theoretical proposition. As a rule, briefs for intensives are shared three weeks prior to each intensive. This time, however, we will hand the brief for the intensive over on the first day of the Intensive itself. Expect to have to study several texts and watch (fragments of) films on the first day of the intensive, in addition to doing your first filmic assignment!

 

Thursday 31/8: Equal Treatment Seminar 

The 'Equal Treatment Seminar’ is a seminar for all new students at HDK-Valand. It takes place on Thursday 31/8, 13:00 - 17:00. More information about this seminar will be shared by the HDK-Valand faculty. 

 

Thursday 31/8: MA1 meets MA2

On Thursday afternoon, 16:00 - 19:00, there will be a ‘meet and greet’ with your MA2 peers. This event will be organized by your MA2 peers.

 

Friday 01/9: Now that we are here 

‘Now that we are Here’ is a workshop for all new students at HDK-Valand, taking place on Friday 02/9, 09:00 - 12:00. The workshop is an invitation for new students to (re)consider/(re)think basic assumptions and agreements considering education and the framework of education. We will discuss questions such as: What do we mean by education, especially art education? What makes education possible? What makes it possible for us to be here in the first place? Is it possible to nurture institutions while critiquing them? What are the possibilities and limits of ‘safe space’ rhetoric? What are the tensions between art and research? At the end of this workshop, we will try to jointly formulate parameters for a healthy, critical educational environment. 

 

Friday 01/9: Elective Courses

On Friday 01/9 the introductions to the elective courses will be hosted. The Elective Courses are not part of the MAFI11 and MAFI12 Film Courses. For more information about the Elective Courses: Enroll in your preferred Elective Course. 

 

Full Schedule for week 35

Monday 28/8
09:00 - 10:00	Welcome to the film unit part 1	Location: Bio-Valand (Vasagatan 50)
10:00 - 12:00	Welcome to HDK-Valand	Location: Baulan (Kristinelundsgatan 6-8)
13:00 - 16:00	Welcome to the film unit part 2	Location: Bio-Valand (Vasagatan 50)
Tuesday 29/8
09:00 - 10:30	Welcome to the MA in Film	Location: X-Library (Vasagatan 50)
10:40 - 12:00	Brief for Intensive #1, I/Eye	Location: X-Library (Vasagatan 50)
13:00 - 17:00	Intensive #1 - I/Eye (Individual work)	Location: MA Corridor (Vasagatan 50)
Wednesday 30/8
09:00 - 17:00	Intensive #1 - I/Eye (Individual work)	Location: MA Corridor (Vasagatan 50)
Thursday 31/8
09:00 - 11:00	Intensive #1 - I/Eye Presentations	Location: Screening Room (Vasagatan 50)
11:00 - 12:00	Rounding up Intensive #1	Location: Screening Room (Vasagatan 50)
13:00 - 17:00	Equal Treatment Seminar	Location: TBA
17:15 - 19:30	MA1 Meet MA2	Location: X-Library (Vasagatan 50)
Friday 1/9
09:00 - 12:00	‘Now that we are Here’ (workshop)	Location: TBA
13:00 - 15:00	Introduction to the Elective Courses	Check the Elective Course for the location.
Please beware that the schedule can change. Always check the detailed brief for the intensive itself for the latest schedule. The full, up to date, schedule for MAFI 11 and 12 for the fall semester can be found on Time Edit: MAFI11, MAFI12. Please note that the ‘elective course’ is not part of this course. That means that we might not have the most recent information about precise scheduling.