Description
[Sound minor] The term third cinema originated in Latin America to describe a cinema of liberation conceived in direct opposition to Hollywood. This course will engage with these ideas to reimagine filmmaking beyond western notions of storytelling, colonial methodologies for image making and capitalist modes of film production. We will trace the connection between the militant cinema of Latin America and the development of local approaches to filmmaking in post-colonial countries and their diasporas. We will also discuss work conceived as cultural resistance within Western countries and settler colonial nations, such as the films of the LA Rebellion, Cousin Collective and the Black Audio Film Collective. Students will be asked to write their own manifesto for filmmaking as well as produce a piece incorporating the ideas discussed during the semester.