Schedule
Wed, 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM (9/2/2024 - 12/13/2024) Location: SLC HEIM 210
Wed, 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM (9/2/2024 - 12/13/2024) Location: SLC HEIM 210
Wed, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM (9/2/2024 - 12/13/2024) Location: SLC HEIM 210
Fri, 9:00 AM - 12:25 PM (9/2/2024 - 12/13/2024) Location: SLC HEIM 135
Description
In this course, we will examine experimental documentary form as political/social/personal discourse and practice. We take as a starting point avant-garde documentary production and explore this in the manner that theorist Renov defines as “the rigorous investigation of aesthetic forms, their composition, and function,” and the manner in which, “poetics confront the problematics of power...” Throughout the semester, students will produce a series of experimental film exercises while they simultaneously research and produce a single, short, experimental documentary film for conference work. This class will acquaint students with the basic theory and purpose of experimental film/video, as compared to narrative documentary formats, and to critical methodologies that will help establish aesthetic designs for their own work. In the class, we will survey a wide range of avant-garde documentary films from the 1920s to the present, with the central focus being student’s options for film produc