FILM 47.63 Shaping Cinema's Futures with Remnants of the Past: The Film Archive as Site of Experimental History

This course builds on ongoing research projects, curatorial initiatives and the experience of training programs in film archiving in the Global South to teach students a broader understanding of film, its multiple histories across the world, and its possible futures. In the course we will discuss productive archival accidents in recent film practice and research with a focus on the legacies and futures of the so-called “Third Cinema,” the militant filmmaking of the 1960s through the 1990s, as well as on archive-based film from outside of the North Atlantic realm. A practice-oriented element of the course will connect to the Media Ecology Project at Dartmouth and its digital film collections.

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:ART; WCult:NW

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Department-Specific Course Categories

Film and Media Studies