Time-Based: Digital Film/City Stories

3 units

This is a cross-university video art course for students interested in making short films through a transdisciplinary and time-based storytelling in both narrative and non-narrative formats. Whether documentary or abstract, individually produced or collaborative, all projects in this course have a required social and urban engagement component. In this course, the City becomes a laboratory for experimentation and contribution. Students meaningfully engage St. Louis and their projects address sites of concern to explore the complex fabric of the city by way of framing and poetic juxtaposition. The course merges several arts and humanities disciplines, including experimental cinema and documentary journalism and creates an opportunity for empathic listening and inquiry as students discover stories built from collective as well as individual memories.