Schedule
SUMMER 2025
AUGUST:
NO COURSES
Short Courses Office Summer Closure: The UCL Short Courses office will be closing for a summer break from Friday the 15th August to Monday the 15th of September 2025.
AUTUMN 2025
SEPTEMBER:
8 weeks, Monday evenings, 7-9 PM. 8th September – 27th October.
OCTOBER:
Politics and Poetics of Archival Filmmaking
7 weeks, Thursday evenings, 7-9 PM. 13th October – 24th November 2025.
Documentary Storytelling (Autumn)
Tuesday evenings, 6:30 PM – 21:00. 7th October – 9th December 2025.
Worlds upon words: Unlocking Emotion through Film
Eight Weeks, Wednesday 15th October – 3rd December
HOMEMADE: Telling Stories of Home with the Tools You Already Have
Wednesday 22nd October – 10th December 2025. In person, with some sessions online. 6-8 PM.
NOVEMBER:
Using Video for [Commercial] Ethnographic Research
Tuesday 4th November – 2nd December 2025. In person, UCL East. 6-8:30 PM.
WINTER 2026
DECEMBER:
NO COURSES
Closed from 12th December – 5th January for Winter break.
JANUARY:
Sound, Ethnography and the Archive with Rim Irscheid
Monday evenings 6-8pm | 19 Jan – 2 March 2026
Documentary Storytelling with Catalin Brylla (Winter)
Tuesday evenings 6 – 9 PM | 13th January – 17th March 2026
Experimental Multisensory Filmmaking with Alda Terracciano
Wednesday evenings 7-9 PM | 21st January – 25th February.
Introduction to Soundscape Composition with Nikki Sheth
Tuesday Evenings 7-9 | 22nd January – 26th February
FEBRUARY:
Visual Anthropology & The City (Winter) with Barbara Knorrp
Thursday evenings 7-9 PM | 5th February – 26th March.
Documentary Filmmaking: Idea 2 Reality with Chloe White
Tuesday evenings 7-9 PM | 23rd February – 23rd March
Worlds Beyond Words: Unlocking Emotion Through Film with Bella Riza
Monday evenings 7-9 PM | 3rd February – 7th April
CO-CREATION MODELS FOR INCLUSIVE FILM PRODUCTIONS
Various days | 16th February – 23rd March
Militant Film & Activist Cinema
Wednesday evenings 7-9 PM | 4th March – 1st April
SPRING 2026
HOMEMADE: Telling Stories of home with the tools you already have – TBC
MARCH:
Politics & Poetics of Archival Filmmaking with Miranda Pennell
Monday evenings 6-8 PM | 30th March – 11th May
SUMMER 2026
June:
Summer Film School with Katharine Round
Monday – Friday | Dates TBC (likely June – August 2026)
July:
AUGUST:
NO COURSES
Short Courses Office Summer Closure: The UCL Short Courses office will be closing for a summer break from Mid August to Mid of September 2026.