Seminar in Black Experimental Film/Video

Seminar in Black Experimental Film/Video
This seminar is designed to facilitate a creative
and rigorous conversation around Blackness and the
audiovisual, particularly in experimental
film/animation, documentary/non-fiction, and video
art. Particular attention will be paid to work
that is oriented around imagined futurity,
resourceful fugitivity, and what is potentially
reparative in the everyday. How can filmic media
avoid the spectacularization of Black suffering?
What does it mean to contend with trauma without
reinscribing it into the visual medium? How do we
open up pathways to radical methodologies? How can
we elevate an ethic of care in Black cultural
production? This course is neither a survey of
Black film/video nor an introduction to recent
Black Diasporic humanities scholarship. The films
herein aren't necessarily answers to the
aforementioned questions, but rather points of
entry into these considerations. Imagining
Fugitivity and Futurity in Film/Video is a space
to think with and throughcontemporary film/video
and scholarship that opens up new possibilities to
think and create.