Description
[Social Practice minor; Sound minor] This course will work as a lab to develop collective filmmaking practices by challenging notions of individual authorship and hierarchical production structures. Students will be exposed to various historical and contemporary approaches to collective filmmaking through lectures, screenings, readings and visiting speakers. In order to better understand the connections between collective practices and notions of territory, we will look at work produced by artists belonging to historically excluded communities in the United States as well as postcolonial contexts such as Mexico, Kurdistan, Uganda, South Africa, Palestine and India. The possibility for “other” cinemas that challenge dominant cultural discourses will be at the forefront of our conversation. During the first half of the semester, the class will make use of these explorations, class discussions and practical experiments to jointly develop a preliminary method for collective film productio