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Make a film in six weeks with filmmakers Lucy Parker and Katharine Round Read More

Summer Film School

Aug 16 — Sep 24

UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton St, London, WC1H 0BW

Led by film curator and programmer Róisín Tapponi, this course is designed for everyone interested in curating and working with documentary cinema, including scholars who are interested in decolonial methodologies of curating in the art and film industries, across physical and digital geographies, and between institutional and grassroots spaces. Over four intensive weeks, we will cover a num... Read More

Curating Political Documentaries

Tue 17 Aug, 00:00

Online Distance Learning

Led by novelist and musician Mat Osman, this course aims to demystify the process of writing your first novel. Heavy on practical tips and realistic timelines, the course takes you through every stage of fiction writing from plotting and story-telling through to characters and structure. The focus is on writing for pleasure and for self-improvement but there will be sections on agents, publishe... Read More

A MARATHON FOR THE MIND – WHY WRITING A NOVEL COULD MAKE YOU STRONGER, SMARTER AND KINDER

Sep 1 — Sep 29

14 Taviton St, Kings Cross, London WC1H 0BW

This course focuses the concepts and techniques of filmmaking, film viewing and dissemination as forms of political action. Through an analytical study of key histories, texts and audio-visual material spanning a multitude of militant film movements from around the globe, the course contextualises its programme within a contemporary political reality, preparing you to engage with the global inj... Read More

Militant Cinema & Activist Film

Sep 6 — Oct 4

Online Distance Learning

This course will now be delivered via online distance learning. Students will require their own computer or other internet connected device. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please get in contact with Ripley. "I am arguing for politics and epistemologies of location, positioning and situating, where partiality and not universality is the condition of being heard to m... Read More

Cinema of the Margins (Online)

Sep 14 — Oct 19

Online Distance Learning

Sound is half the story. Sound helps build the atmosphere of a scene and helps your audience empathise with the emotional journeys of your characters. Recording great sound is crucial to making a film project as good as it can be. From time to time, sound's importance is neglected and it's not until the rushes hit the editing room that the consequences of bad sound are really felt. This cour... Read More

Sound Recording for Documentary Film

Sep 20 — Oct 11

Online Distance Learning

A rich and diverse journey through historical and contemporary filmmakers who use the camera as a tool for encounter. Read More

Documentary as Encounter (Online)

Sep 28 — Nov 2

Online Distance Learning

A new course for artists and filmmakers who are interested in using archival material in their work, and scholars who are interested in probing further into the archival turn in non-fiction filmmaking. Read More

Archives in Non-Fiction Cinema

Oct 5 — Nov 2

Online Distance Learning

"Within and beyond reality": forms of representations challenging the documentary/fiction divide By blending fact and fiction, some films draw on the stylistic traditions of both documentary and fiction films in various ways, at one time distancing its spectators from objective truth while on the other shedding a light on a kind of intensified reality. If the history of documentaries as a fi... Read More

Within and beyond reality

Oct 7 — Nov 11

Online Distance Learning

For documentary filmmakers, film academics and non-fiction enthusiasts looking to further their approach and understanding of non-fiction cinema and its theoretical applications. Read More

Documentary Storytelling (Online)

Sep 14 — Oct 19

Online Distance Learning

This course provides the basic skills needed to get out there and start recording and putting together an audio documentary, podcast or radio programme. Read More

Making Radio Documentary (Online)

Sep 15 — Oct 13

Distance Learning

For documentary practitioners who want to critically frame their filmmaking in order to produce thought-provoking films that have social and cultural implications. Read More

Documentary Storytelling: Reloaded

Aug 9 — Aug 30

Online Distance Learning

Past Courses

‘Visual Anthropology and the City’ looks at documentaries on the city starting from the city symphonies of the 1920s to the video diaries of Jonas Mekas in New York and James Benning’s style of ‘Slow Cinema’ in Los Angeles. Read More

Visual Anthropology and the City (Online)

Online Distance Learning

Aided by ethnographic examples from across the globe, explore the meaning of home and the role anthropology has on understanding identity and belonging. Read More

Anthropology of Home (Online)

Online Distance Learning

‘Visual Anthropology and the City’ looks at documentaries on the city starting from the city symphonies of the 1920s to the video diaries of Jonas Mekas in New York and James Benning’s style of ‘Slow Cinema’ in Los Angeles. Read More

Visual Anthropology and the City

Feb 25 — Apr 15

Students Central Malet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HY

Make a film in six weeks with filmmakers Katharine Round and Marc Isaacs Read More

Summer Film School

Jun 17 — Jul 26

UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton St, London, WC1H 0BW

With filmmakers Isis Thompson and Helen Lawson Learn the camera skills needed to shoot film in the documentary style. Read More

Shooting Documentary: An Introduction

Jul 20 — Aug 3

Student Central Malet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HY

Make a film in six weeks with filmmakers Katharine Round and Richard Alwyn Read More

Summer Film School

Aug 5 — Sep 13

UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton St, London, WC1H 0BW

If you have an interest in storytelling, technology or just want to plan your ideas in 3D, this is the course for you. Using Virtual Reality as the primary tool, students will learn how to animate characters, objects, cameras and lights to create animations that come to life in front of viewers in 3D space as in real life. Over the course of six sessions students will gain hands on expe... Read More

Creating Animation in Virtual Reality

Sep 26 — Oct 31

Student Central Malet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HY

‘Visual Anthropology and the City’ looks at documentaries on the city starting from the city symphonies of the 1920s to the video diaries of Jonas Mekas in New York and James Benning’s style of ‘Slow Cinema’ in Los Angeles. Read More

Visual Anthropology and the City

Oct 15 — Dec 3

Students Central Malet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HY

Learn the camera skills needed to shoot film in the documentary style. Read More

Shooting Documentary: An Introduction

Oct 19 — Nov 2

Student Central Malet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HY

Course Outline This practical audio storytelling course will build on basic audio foundation skills to help you make a short (up to 15 minute) audio feature. The aim of the module is to provide the technical and narrative skills required to tell short-form audio documentaries in a variety of styles including portrait of place, multi-person narratives, action-interview and montage. There will... Read More

Intermediate Radio and Podcasting

Jan 17 — Mar 27

Since the invention of cinema, non-fiction filmmakers have worked with ‘limitations’. Read More

Limitations As Strength: Embracing Restrictions When Making Non-Fiction Films (Online)

Mon 20 Apr, 00:00 ... ... ...

Online Distance Learning

Since the invention of cinema, non-fiction filmmakers have worked with ‘limitations’. Read More

Limitations As Strength: Embracing Restrictions When Making Non-Fiction Films (Online)

May 26 — May 29

Online Distance Learning

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