Summer 2025
Film Diary: Archiving of The Everyday. This course is at full capacity and is no longer accepting applications.
Dates: June 09, 2025 - July 02, 2025Day/Time: Monday; Tuesday; Wednesday 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
Level: 300-Level
Instructor: Mariya Godovannaya, Smolny Beyond Borders
It’s a semi-practical seminar dedicated to diary film as an archival practice of the everyday. We will watch and discuss films that fall under the categories of “film diaries,” “diary films,” and “film letters” as well as engage with texts of filmmakers, poets, and scholars who orient themselves towards experimental cinematic worldmaking and storytelling. Moreover, we will make our own diary films trying to put together bits and pieces, scraps, and traces of our everyday into a film form.
Prerequisites: The students should have a basic knowledge of filmmaking: how to shoot and how to edit films.
Credits: 3 US / 6 ECTS