Intermediate Studio: Expanded Cinema

Catalog description

This intermediate studio course examines Expanded Cinema as a set of contemporary practices and historical ideas that extend cinematic language beyond the single screen. Through hands-on production in digital video, editing, and display, students develop projects that experiment with expanded narrative forms, spatialized storytelling, and video installation. The course situates mid-twentieth-century theories of Expanded Cinema alongside current post-media practices, drawing from experimental film, installation art, and networked screen cultures. Emphasis is placed on cinematic vernaculars—time, space, montage, sound, and spectatorship—as they are reconfigured across spatialized, performative, and installation-based contexts. Iterative studio projects, critical viewing, and theoretical discussion establish the primary content of this course.