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"I am arguing for politics and epistemologies of location, positioning and situating, where partiality and not universality is the condition of being heard to make knowledge claims … I am arguing for the view from a body, always a complex, contradictory, structuring and structured body, versus the view from above, from nowhere, from simplicity." (Haraway 1988: 589) Led by artists and... Read More

Cinema of the Margins (Online)

Apr 6 — May 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)

Mar 16 — Apr 20

Online 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

Feb 15 — Mar 8

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)

Jan 11 — Feb 8

Distance Learning

A short practical documentary filmmaking course in 10 sessions. Read More

Practical Documentary Filmmaking

Jan 14 — Mar 25

Student Central, Malet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HY

"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

Feb 23 — Mar 30

Online Distance Learning

Past Courses

This course will be delivered via 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 ... Read More

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

Sep 1 — Sep 29

Online Distance Learning

Covering all aspects of 360 spatial audio recording, mixing, and exporting for delivery on multiple platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, and Virtual Reality Head Mounted Displays, learn how to create soundtracks for 360 degree videos. In this practical evening course students will learn how to create soundtracks for 360 degree videos. It covers all aspects of 360 spatial audio recording, mix... Read More

An introduction to Spatial Audio (Online)

Sat 24 Oct, 00:00 ... ...

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

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

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

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

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

Learn key strategies for building relationships with contributors, filming in intimate situations, developing narratives over time and drawing out themes that will connect with an audience. Read More

Documenting Life On Film

Nov 13 — Dec 4

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

Investigate strategies of exploration and representation through experimental, ethnographic and documentary film. Read More

Experiments in Ethnographic and Documentary Film (Online)

May 10 — Jul 5

Online Distance Learning

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 14 — Mar 25

A practice-based course designed for people interested in making VR interactive 360° film content. Read More

Introduction to Interactive VR 360° Film

May 17 — Jun 14

Students Central Malet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HY

Investigate strategies of exploration and representation through experimental, ethnographic and documentary film. Read More

Investigations and Appropriations in the Ethnographic and Documentary Film

May 13 — Jul 8

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

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