Section Info: FMT-240EV-01

Course Title: Intermediate Courses in Production and Practice: 'Experimental Video: Theory and Practice'
Start Date: 09/03/2025 End Date: 12/16/2025
Term: Fall Semester 2025
Description: This production course grounds practice in theory and history. It will introduce students to canonical and contemporary works from avant-garde cinema while engaging them in experimental filmmaking concepts, aesthetics, and practices. Through lectures and screenings, students will be exposed to groundbreaking filmmakers and analyze their works. These will serve to inform and inspire students' own film projects which will cover a range of experimental film approaches including archival and found footage, structural, surrealist, and poetic. This course is open to students with any level of video production experience, including those new to the practice. Students taking this course will gain experience in planning, shooting and editing their work using DSLR cameras and the option of cell phones
Distribution(s): I - Humanities , TP - Topics Course
Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     Credits:4.00    

Faculty         Phone         Email address        
Flonia Telegrafi             ftelegrafi@mtholyoke.edu  

Meeting Dates         Method         Meeting days         Meeting times         Building name         Room     Frequency    
09/03/2025 - 12/16/2025   Seminar   Friday   01:30PM - 04:20PM   TBA   TBA   Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses        
Prereq: FMT-102, FMT-103, FMT-104, ARTST-131, or ARTST-142. Take previously   Required  

Comments        
Additional Comments        
Five College students: Open to Five College Film majors. Others majors require instructor permission.  
Course Tags        
FMT0003   FMT-PR: Production/Performance   This course has been approved to count towards the Film, Media, Theater major in the Production/Performance area.  

Cross-listed Sections        
FMT-240EV-01 Experimental Video  
ARTST-226EV-01 Experimental Video  

Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted     Capacity: 12     Enrollment: 11     Available: 0     Waitlist: 6
Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List         Required         Publisher Full Price        
To be determined.                    

Additional Book Comments        
This is NOT the complete book list for this class.