Documentary Fictions

Catalog description

This course will explore the blurred boundaries between documentary and fiction filmmaking. Intended to widen the horizons of the creative filmmaker and film student, we will analyze major documentary traditions with a specific focus on the narrative techniques used in the telling of powerful stories. Alongside, we will examine contemporary fiction filmmaking that has broken new grounds by a creative absorption and sometimes exploitation of the documentary method. The course will consist of four components: film analysis, interviews with filmmakers, seminal readings on the subject, and a creative treatment by every student on a film of their choice or a film they would like to make. This course allocates as History & Criticism for Film & TV majors. COURSE SUBJECT TO DEPARTMENTAL FEES. Non-majors must process a "Permission Notice for Non-Majors" form to register for the course (subject to availability).