FILM 3108 - Experimental Film and Media

5 credit hours
Formerly - FILM 4560

The history of avant-garde and experimental film and media is a history of disruption, of radical innovation, of breaking away from what came before. Because of this, it resists easy categorization as a genre. How do we classify a media work as experimental? How and why is such work produced? Who makes it, and who is its audience? And how does it differ from mainstream and commercial media production? Utilizing both creative and scholarly approaches, this course will take up these questions, and in the process, attempt to formulate new ones. We will engage an eclectic array of readings, film and media works, and creative and critical assignments, in order to think about, think with, and think through the diverse histories and practices of avant-garde and experimental film and media.