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Lisa Barcy
Woman Without a Past
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Jesse Seay
Likes to Do Other Things
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MakeOut Club
Grad Screening @ Busker
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UNDERGRADUATE Program
BFA Degree Program
FVNM's undergraduate curriculum is designed to offer students a flexible set of interdisciplinary
theory and practice seminars and disciplinary course sequences. FVNM believes that critical and theoretical
issues cannot be separated from the technical issues of media production. To that end,
it has introduced a core sequence of interdisciplinary theory and practice seminars,
Media Practices, as a forum to explore older and new combinations of moving-image
technologies within the context of critical debate and collaboration. These seminars bring
together students working in a variety of narrative forms, installation, animation,
nonfiction, new media, and other areas of independent media. At the same time, students
choose to concentrate in one or more of these production tracks: Film, Video, Installation,
New Media, Animation, and Nonfiction media.
The Department offers many types of studio production courses in which students receive
rigorous technical training. The sequence of courses in each track advances practical and
critical skills and connects students’ work to wider interdisciplinary concerns.
Course work also includes seminars that engage history, critical theory, aesthetics, cultural
studies and technology. Both undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to develop
advanced work in close consultation with faculty advisers through the Advanced Projects
(FVNM 4001, 4002, 4003) offerings. In addition, students are able to work closely with other
departments, such as Writing; Art History, Theory, and Criticism;
Visual and Critical Studies,
Sound; and Art & Technology, to ensure a fully integrated set of
complementary media-related classes.
The facilities of the Film, Video, and New Media department include a 60-seat cinema, a shooting set,
work studios and classrooms for both 3-D and 2-D animation, a professional interlock sound suite,
digital editing, and web-authoring suites. Students also have liberal access to a wide variety of
media tools including sync-sound film cameras, advanced digital cameras, and nonlinear editing systems.
The faculty represent a broad range of experimental media traditions
and practices. These range from animation and handmade films, to innovative documentary and narrative
investigations, multimedia and web works, to community-based and activist projects. A rotating schedule of
internationally known artists complements the Department’s curriculum. In the past, the department has
hosted Mani Kaul, Craig Baldwin, James Benning, Ernie Gehr, Harun Farocki, Mona Hatoum, Isaac Julien, Trinh
T. Minh-ha, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Cheryl Dunye, Peggy Ahwesh, Ulrike Ottinger, Martha Rosler, and
Yvonne Rainer. In 2004, internationally recognized filmmaker Anne Quirynen was the department artist-in-residence.
Visiting artists residencies are designed to give students extended periods of time to work with master
artists on advanced research projects.
The department works closely with the Video
Data Bank, a leading distributor of experimental media work by artists, and The Gene Siskel Film Center, one of the country’s premiere screening
venues for world cinema. Students have access to the
Video Data Bank’s collection, which spans more than 30 years and represents an unparalleled archive of
video art. In association with the Video Data Bank
and the Gene Siskel Film Center,
the department curates Conversations At The Edge.
Equipment and facilities include Arriflex, Éclair, CP, and Bolex 16mm motion picture cameras and
accessories; Sony Betacam SP, Panasonic, and Canon DV video cameras; Nagra, Sony, and Tascam analog and
digital audio recorders; various portable lighting kits; quality Sennheiser, AT, and Sony microphones;
AVID, Media 100, and Final Cut Pro digital nonlinear editing systems; Steenbeck flatbed editing machines;
JK and Oxberry optical printers; Oxberry animation stand; two shooting studios; Pro Tools digital audio
mixing suite; DVD authoring facilities, extensive cross-platform dubbing facilities, 16mm film sound
transfer and mixing facility and 60-seat screening theater.
COURSE LISTINGS
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