This course is designed as an introduction to a broad range of practices sometimes labeled "video art" or "experimental video." The focus of the course will be exclusively on non-narrative approaches to the theory and practice of videomaking. Students will work on a series of short projects throughout the semester (about one every two weeks) that engage simultaneously with different theoretical problems, technological challenges, and aesthetic strategies. The projects will span all of the stages of video production as well as a wide variety of aesthetic forms. The course will conclude with a short final project of the your own devising that grows out of one or a number of the theories and formal approaches that we have explored during the semester.

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This course is designed as an ambitious introduction to FILM (as opposed to video) production. Work will be exclusively in 16mm. We will explore the process from the most rudimentary ways of putting an image on film (scratching, direct animation, in-camera effects, etc.) to (relatively) advanced approaches to cinematography, processing, and editing. There will be no synchronous sound production in this course, so all films will be dialogue-free, although we will experiment with ways of adding sound (including double-system sound and video transfer).

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