Editing is where films are truly written. In this course, you’ll learn to shape rhythm, emotion, and meaning through the cut—exploring editing as both a technical craft and a creative language. Using cutting-edge editing software and workflows, you’ll work with contemporary editing tools and workflows, manipulating time and space to craft stories across narrative, non-narrative, and hybrid forms. Through hands-on creative projects developed in class, you will explore the expansive possibilities of editing original works. Each project invites experimentation and risk-taking as you learn to build tension, find emotional resonance, and develop your own artistic voice. Alongside practice, you’ll study the aesthetic and theoretical foundations of editing: sound, montage, continuity, and pacing you'll manipulate time and space, crafting compelling stories in narrative, non-narrative, and hybrid forms. Drawing from a range of global traditions, we’ll consider how editing choices can reflect or challenge cultural norms around power, privilege, and representation. Class screenings, discussions, and guided exercises connect theory to practice. You’ll analyze how great editors create rhythm, how images carry emotional weight, and how transitions shape audience perception. By the end of the course, you’ll have a deeper command of editing as both an expressive and political act—one that lets you see moving images not just as sequences, but as arguments, emotions, and art.Graduate Film elective courses are topical courses that provide in-depth exploration of various movements, histories and aesthetic strategies related to film and moving image work for graduate students. Most often they combine film screenings and research with practical studio work. These courses are grad-wide electives that offer students an opportunity to work in an interdisciplinary context. Recent topics have included; Mise-en-Scène, Scores, Performance and the Visual Arts, Speculative Fiction and experimental approaches, Moving Image and Noise

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