VIS 262
Introduction to Video and Film Production
A film/video course introducing the techniques of shooting and editing digital video. Works of film/video art will be analyzed in class to explore the development of, and innovations in, cinematic language. Production will be oriented toward film/video as a visual art, including narrative, documentary, and experimental genres. Several short video projects will be produced during the semester.
VIS 342
The Cinema from World War II until the present
The history of sound and color film produced since World War II. Emphasis on Italian neorealism, French New Wave, American avant-garde, and the accomplishments of such major film makers as Bergman, Hitchcock, Bresson, and Antonioni. Modernism in film will be a central consideration.
VIS 362
Intermediate Video and Film Production
A second-level film/video workshop focusing on digital media production. Short works of film/video art will be analyzed in class as a guide to the issues of aesthetic choice, editing structure, and challenging one’s audience. Students complete two short videos and a longer final project, and view one film each week outside of class time.
VIS 462
Advanced Video and Film Production
There's making a conventional documentary, and then there's going out and filming the world to see what you see and to find what interests you. The weekly screenings will include some traditional documentaries, but will concentrate more on recent iconoclastic versions of the genre. The production side of the course will be open to both ways of working so that you can learn more about where your interests lie and how to express those concerns through image, sound and text. After a few preliminary assignments, you will be free to choose whether to do one long piece or several short ones during the semester.
VIS 242
Film Genres: The First five Decades of Cinema
P. Adams Sitney
A historical examination of film genre - e.g., silent slapstick comedy, sound screwball comedy, detective film, horror film, historical epic, avant-garde cinema and political propaganda film. The object of the course will be an understanding of the evolution of the fundamental types of cinema as exemplified by a series of masterpieces from 1895 to 1945.
VIS 261
Introductory Video and Film Production
Keith Sanborn
A film/video course introducing the techniques of shooting and editing digital video. Works of film/video art will be analyzed in class to explore the development of, and innovations in, cinematic language. Production will be oriented toward film/video as a visual art, including narrative, documentary, and experimental genres. Several short video projects will be produced during the semester.
VIS 361
Intermediate Video and Film Production
Keith Sanborn
A second level film/video workshop focusing on digital media production. Short works of film/video art will be analyzed in class as a guide to the issues of aesthetic choice, editing structure, and challenging one's audience. Students will complete two short videos and a longer final project. Students must view one film each week outside of class time.
VIS 444
Cinema and the Related Arts
P.Adams Sitney
A seminar on the interrelationship between poetry and cinema since 1920 with emphasis on the Orphic tradition in modernism. Films by Cocteau, Chaplin, Bunuel, Tarkovsky, Godard, Deren and Brakhage will be seen and discussed.
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