Intermediate Video: The Future

Course Description

Summary

Intermediate Video: The Future is an in-person course building on the technical skills introduced in Introduction to Video.  Students will be expected to produce technical exercises, as well as longer projects of their own design.  Technical aspects of the course will be balanced with building a moving image discourse on the theme of the future, through readings, screenings, and discussions.   In particular, we will look at contemporary video art and cinema that embrace the concept of future as collapse: emphasizing ecological crises, dissolution of national borders in the face of migratory flows, alongside rhythmic density in aesthetic and editing.  Accordingly, we will pay close attention to the development of visual and aural compositional skills, color, value and rhythmic analysis, and complex editing structures and techniques – conventional and experimental.  In addition to works for cinematic distribution (single-screen), this class will also look at installation and experimental platforming, online and otherwise.