FILM 224 - Film Festivals & Exhibition

This intensive explores the contemporary mediascape of film festivals and exhibition practices. This includes major festivals, small festivals, drive-ins, and simulcasts. Our focus is on site-specific learning: we investigate how the locations and logistics of various types of film exhibitions creates meaning and cultural capital for promoters and audiences alike. Throughout, we investigate issues of access as they relate to geography, (dis)ability, technology, and socio-economic status. We accomplish this via field trips throughout the semester to the local area’s largest and most important festival, the New York Film Festival, its oldest continuous LGBT festival, New Fest, as well as to a Poughkeepsie drive-in and to a Westchester film center that streams live theatrical events. We also explore the creation and curation of digital environments for these festivals, and host class visits from festival programmers and other workers. Students are expected to attend all field trips and class visits, and to complete four short reflection papers throughout the semester. Erica Stein.

Prerequisite(s): FILM 209 .

One 1-hour period.

Course Format: INT