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Film, Video, and Photography
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| Strangers No More, a film by Hampshire alums Karen Goodman 72F and Kirk Simon 72F, won an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Short Subject category in 2011. | |
Visual artists at Hampshire explore film, video, and photography primarily through independent experimentation with many forms of analog, digital, and electronic media, as well as installation and performance.
This individualized process of creation, along with our internationally recognized faculty, excellent technical facilities, and staff support, ensures that Hampshire students can develop their fullest artistic visions along with the tools to produce them.
Students are given the necessary foundations in form, technique, and production skills—while being encouraged to examine the theoretical and critical contexts and the current practices and debates that will inform their artistic expression.
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This course will explore experimental and avant-garde films made in the artisanal mode often in political response to commercial culture or in concert with developments in modern and post-modern art. The course will focus on films that respond directly to the physical properties of the medium either by subverting the photographic process or by directly manipulating the materials through primitive animation or direct painting on film. We will screen films from all periods of cinema history, from Winsor McCay to Stan Brakhage, as well as by current artists. Also, students will try their own hand made filmmaking through group and individual projects with pin-hole cameras, painting and drawing on film, cell and object animation, and hand-processing techniques.
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Film, Video, Photography Resources Hampshire also has six flat-bed editing machines, an optical printer, and a professional-quality animation machine. Students have access to large and medium format photography cameras, 16mm film cameras, tripods, light meters, lights, lenses, and virtually any other piece of related equipment they might need. We have a Final Cut Pro editing suite, an Avid digital editing suite, a video studio, control room, and media lab. The media services office coordinates the booking of all films and videos in the Five College collections, loans of video production and audio/visual equipment, reservations for film preview rooms, and film/video reference help. Jerome Liebling Center for Film, Photography and Video The Tashmoo Lecture Series Five College Film Council |
