This course provides a gateway to more expansive, experimental and advanced moving image production workflows, focusing on the use of space, light and video to create immersive spaces and installations. Students will consider video as a light based medium, light as sculptural form, basic lighting fundamentals, and projection mapping for spatial storytelling. This course is comprised of hands-on workshops, alongside an introduction to the artists, artworks and techniques of projection as public art and installation. No previous technical experience is required, but the skills will augment (and not overlap) past production experiences in film and video. There will be three workshop based creative assignments and a final class determined collaboration to take place as part of the Tang Party.

Students in this course will work directly with the InterGeneration Lab and a community of regional elders to identify and create new methods of collaborative interdisciplinary storytelling. The InterGeneration Lab is a project that initiates relationships between older and younger adults through art, storytelling, and empathetic civic dialogue. It aims to model new ways that we can create multicultural, and multi-age social connection.

This course is a part of the MDOCS Co-Creation Initiative and will work in collaboration with members of Kanatsiohareke, a Mohawk organization dedicated to Haudenosaunee cultural preservation. Students will participate in the effort to create a community archive, learning the nuts and bolts of digital platforms, while working to generate access to cultural documents, archival material, audio/video media, and oral histories. Field trips to nearby Indigenous institutions will deepen understanding of Haudenosaunee culture and history. The course will be grounded in explorations of contemporary cultural preservation and language revitalization efforts of Indigenous communities. As a final project, students will engage in research of primary and secondary sources to bolster descriptions of materials in the Kanatsiohareke collections.

This hands on production course is an introduction to the practice and theory of experimental cinema and its influence on non-traditional documentary form. This course will cover a wide range of visual and conceptual strategies that reimagine conventional cinematic story and representations of truth. Topics will include: non-linear form, hybrid fact/fiction, abstraction, co-creation, artifice and realism. Students in this course will be challenged to apply these strategies and techniques in the production of two finished works during the semester. This course will emphasize the creation of single channel screen based works and allow you to advance your skills with sound, camera and editing, alongside experimentation of form. This is class is open to students who already have at least one moving image production class.