The Expanded Cinema workshop will introduce students to non-traditional cinematic forms that push the boundaries of production, the screen, spectatorship, narrative, time, audiences, and the body. As long as cinema has existed, artists have experimented with the form. We will look at the history of expanded cinema, a term coined in the 70’s by Gene Youngblood who looked forward to the explosion of the frame towards more immersive, synesthetic, interactive, and interconnected forms. Today’s cinema has achieved this and can be broken down even more - as an object, an idea, a performance - and still has many other possibilities. Through screenings and field trips, we will look at historic and contemporary examples of artist and filmmaker practices that are pushing cinema in new and exciting directions, and students will have opportunities to expand their own expectations, desires, beliefs, and abilities regarding moving image. Students will complete project exercises and assignments, complete readings and write responses, as well as complete a final project. There will be group and one on one feedback and critiques.

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