CINE 305 - Automated Images

Credits: 4

Film and the Nonhuman explores filmmaking practices that engage with animals, plants, and technologies to question the possibilities, limitations, and politics of entangled authorship. Surveying artists and filmmakers working with chance operations, collaborating with nonhuman animals, and engaging with machine learning algorithms, we will examine the complexities of working with nonhuman interlocutors. Over the course of the semester students will meet a range of makers and thinkers including Sondra Perry, Jake Elwes, Yuri Ancarani, and Meghan OGieblyn. Students will experiment with a variety of moving-image and sound recording apparatuses, from contact and electromagnetic field microphones to endoscopes and surveillance cameras, as they develop ways of making that stretch beyond their perceptual capacities. These experiments will feed the development of creative projects in which students will navigate the complexities of collaborating with the more than human world. Prerequisites: CINE 121, 122 and 252.