Media Mavericks

Catalog description

This course is a critical examination of the alternative methods practiced by independent, moving image-makers and producers. We will explore the work of directors/producers who have created their own cinematic language. Via the learning platform, students will stay in constant engaged online discussion with each other contributing their interpretation of the lectures and films screened in the class modules. In the context of this exploration, the course will focus on thematic threads such as: Visual Poetry (Alternative Producing) Documentary and Hybrid Forms (Alternative Producing) American Independent Cinema Director/Producer Teams International Director/Producer Teams In each of these areas we will focus on the evolution of the independent, underground and avant-garde film practices. This new language may be politically confrontational, aesthetically difficult, lyrical, or rhythmical, but no matter what the form, it will express the particular vision of the artist/director/producer who created it. They share very little save for their adventurous desire to reawaken those dormant visual and aural sensibilities that may have been hypnotized into years of sleep by too much commercial, mainstream media.