Sustainability and Justice Collaborations: 16mm Film Requirements

• Individually researched and written personal essay.
• Collaboratively researched and written personal essay.
• Collaboratively drafted storyboard adaptation.
• Format: 16mm
• Film-16mm: silent
• Length: 3-7 minutes (7 minutes maximum)
• Collaboration: work in teams of two, three maximum
• Students are expected to use some of the representational strategies we are studying in the program: a documentary strategy (poetic, performative, etc.) or an experimental approach (drawing attention to the medium in addressing program themes, breaking with conventional forms of representation, emphasizing the visual, etc.)
• Original Material: the use of original material is required. This means that students have created all of the images and sound, rather than appropriating materials from other sources.
• Sound: The 16mm project is a visual piece only, and is silent.
• Collaborative Artists Statement: Each team is expected to write one specifically for the film essay.
• Presentation Formats: 16mm film
• Critiques (oral and written) of peer work.