Introduction to Non-Fiction Filmmaking: Personal Experience & Creative Practice

Undergraduate

This course introduces students to the foundations of non-fiction filmmaking through a combination of critical viewing, theoretical discussion, and hands-on creative practice. Drawing on diverse traditions of documentary and non-fiction cinema- from classical observational forms to hybrid, personal, and experimental approaches - the course emphasizes non-fiction filmmaking as a dynamic and evolving cinematic language rather than a fixed genre. The course is designed for students with no prior filmmaking experience as well as those with a background in film or media. Students explore how images, sound, time, space, and lived experience can become cinematic material, and how non-fiction film can engage with reality in imaginative, poetic, and critical ways beyond conventional documentary formats. The course is designed for students with no prior filmmaking experience as well as those with a background in film or media. HU RP Th 1:30pm-5:30pm