Course Info: HACU-0288
| Course | HACU-0288 Writing for Film |
| Long Title | Writing for Film: Text and Image in Transnational Cinema |
| Term | 2016F |
| Note(s) |
Instructor Permission Required Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Jerome Liebling CenterüJerome Liebling Center 120ü120 on TüM from 9:00-11:50ü7:00-9:00 |
| Faculty | Baba Hillman |
| Capacity | 16 |
| Available | 2 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
| Distribution(s) | |
| Cumulative Skill(s) | Multiple Cultural Perspectives Independent Work |
| Additional Info | Field Trip Fee: $50 Lab Fee: $65 Students are expected to spend approximately 8 hours per week on work and preparation outside of class time. |
| Description | This production/theory class introduced students to scripts and texts by independent filmmakers who are questioning what it means to work across cultures and languages in a transnational context and to negotiate conflicts between notions of the local and the global, notions of national identity and the postnational. These filmmakers are working in hybrid combinations of essayistic, poetic, fictional and non-fictional forms. Many of them work in a context of multiple languages and seek to express the rupture of cultural displacement, and the ways in which it impacts questions of representation. We studied works by filmmakers and installation artists including Anri Sala, Mona Hatoum, Ousmane Sembene, Black Audio Film Collective, Carlos Mayolo, Ximena Cuevas and Jean-Pierre Gorin. The course included workshops in writing voice-over, dialogue and visual text for the screen as well as workshops in editing image to text. Students wrote and shot two short projects and one longer project. Students worked in 16mm, Super 8 film, digital media or across multiple formats. |