MEDS 284 - Global Indigenous Film

Semester Offered: Fall
0.5 unit(s)

(Same as AMST 284 and ANTH 284) This intensive acquaints students with some of the documentary, experimental, and narrative films/videos of indigenous filmmakers from North America, Australia, and New Zealand. Screenings include films by Rachel Perkins, Tracey Moffatt, Sherman Alexie, Victor Masayesva, Alanis Obamsawin, and Zacharias Kunuk. Discussions of films engage the notion of visual sovereignty, and the use of film/video to document indigenous lives and concerns, and to reframe stories told about them and to tell new stories. Colleen Cohen.

Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.

First six-week course.

One 2-hour period plus outside screenings.

Course Format: INT