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, holographic 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. We will look at historic and contemporary examples of artist and filmmaker practices that are pushing cinema in new and exciting directions and the students will have opportunities to expand their own expectations, desires, beliefs and abilities regarding moving image. This course will be a hybrid of online course work and lectures as well as in person meetings and field trips. 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.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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