Film and Digital Media

FILM 171F Special Topics Workshop: Autobiographical Film

Students explore autobiography as a filmmaking genre and practice, using experimental, fictionalized, documentary, and hybrid forms. Readings and screenings provide a theoretical context for production work. Topics include: strategies of (self) representation, reenactment, performance, portraiture, memoir, confession, and diaristic film. Students are billed a course materials fee. Prerequisite(s): FILM 170B; priority given to students in the production concentration. Admission by application; application materials available during the last three weeks of preceding quarter. Students not in the production concentration but have completed FILM 170B may apply and will be considered if space is available.

Credits

5