Jeanne LIotta makes films and other cultural ephemera such as photographs, works on paper, and media performance operating at a lively intersection of art science & natural philosophy.
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film, media, visual arts, culture, ephemera, natural philosophy, cosmology, pre-socratic concepts, the history of science, cosmos, perception, space, time, light, observation, sound art, field recordings, urban anthropology, concrete poetry, climate change, newspapers
ARTF 5010 - Topics in Film Production
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Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2024
Prepares students for advanced cinema production courses. Subject matter varies each semester. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours, provided the topics are different. Same as CINE 4010.
ARTF 5453 - History of Avant-Garde Film
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Spring 2020
Traces the history and aesthetics of avant-garde/experimental films in light of similar ideas found in the other arts, particularly painting, poetry, photography and music. Topics covered include Dada and the early avant-garde; surrealism and psychodramas; Brakhage and abstract expressionism; feminist arts and film since the 1980s; the idea of the sublime in painting, music and film; landscape in painting, photography and film; post-modernism and the cinema; queer theory, gender/identity politics and aesthetics of recent films; and specific multiple disciplinary artists such as Andy Warhol, Michael Snow, Helen Levitt and Gunvor Nelson. Same as CINE 4453.
ARTF 5604 - Colloquium in Film Aesthetics
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Fall 2021 / Fall 2024
Seminar for the serious round table discussion and critique of film as an art form, emphasizing development of appropriate verbal and written language skills for description of film. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Same as FILM 4604.
ARTF 5610 - Image-makers Graduate Seminar
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Spring 2018 / Spring 2019 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2024
Explores advanced graduate studio work in a seminar setting. Focuses on the development of ideas and activities which advance creative image making. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours.
CINE 4010 - Topics in Film Production
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2024
Prepares students for advanced Cinema Studies production courses. Subject matter varies each semester. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours, provided the topics are different. Same as ARTF 5010. Formerly FILM 4010.
CINE 4453 - History of Avant-Garde Film
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Spring 2020
Survey course tracing the history, aesthetics and contexts of the American avant-garde cinema in light of contemporary art movements till today. Viewing key cultural works of film, video, and moving image arts. Includes Dada and Surrealist precursors, the mythopoetics of Deren, Anger and Brakhage, Abstraction and Animation, Mekas' lyrical diaries, Conner, collage and the Beats, Warhol and Pop Art, Nam Jun Paik and the pioneering video artists , Kuchar and camp, Schneeman's radical body politics and performance, AIDS activist media, and current works from the myriad marginal voices that drive avant-garde art practices. Same as ARTF 5453. Formerly FILM 4453.
CINE 4604 - Colloquium in Film Aesthetics
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2024
Seminar for the serious round table discussion and critique of film as an art form, emphasizing development of appropriate verbal and written language skills for description of film. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department enforced prerequisite: restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors) with a minimum GPA of 3.0 or instructor consent required. Formerly FILM 4604. Same as ARTF 5604.
CINE 4959 - Honors Senior Thesis
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Spring 2020
For exceptional Film Studies majors who wish to write an honors thesis based on independent research or creative work under the direction of a faculty member. Formerly FILM 4959.
FILM 4010 - Topics in Film Production
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Fall 2018
Prepares students for advanced Cinema Studies production courses. Subject matter varies each semester. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours, provided the topics are different. Same as ARTF 5010. Formerly FILM 4010.
FILM 4604 - Colloquium in Film Aesthetics
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Fall 2018
Seminar for the serious round table discussion and critique of film as an art form, emphasizing development of appropriate verbal and written language skills for description of film. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department enforced prerequisite: restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors) with a minimum GPA of 3.0 or instructor consent required. Formerly FILM 4604. Same as ARTF 5604.
