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I will teach two Adult Education courses at Arts + Literature Laboratory in Fall and Winter 2024-2025. Dates and meeting times will be confirmed soon with links to the registration pages posted on this page.
Found Footage and Collage Film
Found footage films go by many names, from mashups and culture-jamming, to détournement and collage. Artists throughout film history have hijacked images from popular culture and reassembled them to create new meanings and aesthetic effects. In the Found Footage and Collage Film course, we will examine that history from the surrealists (Joseph Cornell, Rose Hobart, 1936) to contemporary film and video artists (Soda Jerk, Hello Dankness, 2023).
Class objectives:
- Survey the history of collage films as aesthetic and political provocations.
- Examine the stylistic approaches unique to collage cinema through discussions of short films and weekly readings.
- Apply the lessons learned above by editing a collage video (five minutes or less), using footage from internet resources.
Film Conversations: Four Contemporary Directors
Much like friends in a book club, students in Film Conversations courses will watch a feature film each week on their own time, and then meet via Zoom on Tuesday nights to share their responses while learning about film style, national cinemas, and contemporary directors.
Class objectives:
- To introduce concepts in film analysis used to discuss film style: mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, and sound.
- Apply these concepts by discussing films directed by Hong Sang-soo (South Korea), Kelly Reichardt (United States), Radu Jude (Romania) and Lucrecia Martel (Argentina).