Representing the Real—Documentary and Other Fictions
CINE 333S
This class explores experimental approaches to representing 'the real.' The possibilities and contradictions of documentary practices are a starting point for an examination of historic film/video works which use formally inventive strategies to represent, interrogate, or effect reality. Students will engage in conceptually-focused video production processes, exploring how images may—or may not—act as evidence, complex power relations between maker, subject and viewer, flows between ethnographic practice and colonialism, and other questions. Classwork includes screenings, discussion, reading, writing, and creative non-fiction video production. No tech experience needed.