Documentary Ethnography for Museum of Exhibition practices

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This course will investigate research modalities that center around documentary storytelling in the museum context. During the semester, we will examine research strategies that collaborate with curatorial experts. Class will utilize cinematic techniques that investigate cultural narratives revolving around cultural heritage sites, rituals and ceremonies, artifacts, materials and living traditions. Students will engage Solomon's process of her creation of the new digital and in-gallery content that will reframe the Metropolitan Museum’s African art galleries. The semester will culminate in students creating their own short film content that will be screened at the end of the semester.