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Filmmakers have provided many different visions of people and their worlds. The visual strategies they've used have ranged from the modernist avant garde and formal experimentation to cinema verité and political interventions. University College London (UCL) offers the Experiments in Ethnographic and Documentary Film programme.

Overview

Key facts

Led by curator, writer and lecturer Helen de Witt, this short course will look at:

the formation of documentary film within the study of ethnography
how filmmakers represent people like ourselves, and those labelled as others

Sources will include ethnographic recordings, observational and personal films, investigative documentaries that have righted miscarriages of injustice, and controversial recreations of atrocities.

University College London (UCL)'s Experiments in Ethnographic and Documentary Film course will examine anti-colonial strategies of resistance as well as highlight some forgotten films by women.

It will conclude with an opportunity to discuss recent documentaries that have affected you.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Looking through the lens: reality, religion and ritual in early cinema

Creating the modern: the Soviet avant garde, the city film and the rise of totalitarianism

Housing, industry, war, freedom: British life in documentary

Manifestos and manifestations: Latin American liberation
African heritages: anti-colonial struggles and diasporic lives

Key information

Duration

Part-time
- 8 days

Start dates & application deadlines

You can apply for and start this programme anytime.

Language

English

Delivered

Online

Disciplines

Film Studies Ethnic Studies View 55 other Short Courses in Film Studies in United Kingdom

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

The course is open to anyone with a basic knowledge of, and interest in, documentary and independent film forms, anthropology and representation.

It's suitable for the general public, undergraduates and postgraduates. It's not aimed at practitioners, although they're welcome to attend.

Tuition Fee

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International

180 GBP/full

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 180 GBP for the full programme during 8 days.
National

180 GBP/full

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 180 GBP for the full programme during 8 days.

Funding

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Experiments in Ethnographic and Documentary Film