In this class we will make a sense of place the foundation of our story telling. We will look deeply at how place frames and holds filmmaking, and ways to use a site as an anchor for filmmaking. Through our work we explore what it means to make a cinema of place. Now during Covid times how has our sense of place, and being in place, shaped our thinking? Through our outings to places near where we live, we will explore this in place-ness and see how focusing on place will shape our filmmaking. Students will be exposed to a broad range of work in which a sense of place drives creative filmmaking. We will look at diverse strategies from around the world for developing and making creative place bound filmmaking, a cinema that looks beyond conventional formal boundaries to bring new voices to contemporary cinema. The course will be held as a hybrid in person/ online course. The goal is to create a sense of community within the class, through a combination of asynchronous screenings, student driven fieldwork sessions, cinematic exercises presented to the class, discussions of readings and one on one feedback sessions. These sessions will be conducted both in Zoom as well and through in person workshops and through field trips when possible. Hybrid course sections will be delivered both online and in-person. Required online synchronous meeting times are listed as the meeting pattern for this course section. Additional course components will be delivered asynchronously or in-person as outlined in the syllabus.

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