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

Aimed at new and emerging documentary producers and directors, this 5-week online course provides a detailed overview at the whole pre-production process, from research, casting, proposal writing, and taster-tape making through to funding and pitching.

A popular practice-led course suited to documentary filmmakers, film academics and non-fiction enthusiasts looking to further their approach and understanding of non-fiction cinema and its theoretical applications.

An online, practice-based course exploring the theories and applications of visual and public anthropology in the context of experimental multisensory storytelling.

A COURSE FOR ARTISTS, FILMMAKERS, SCHOLARS AND ANYONE INTERESTED IN HOW WE ENGAGE WITH ARCHIVES, CULTURAL MEMORY, AND HISTORY THROUGH FILM. IT LOOKS AT THE CREATIVE STRATEGIES THAT ARTISTS HAVE USED TO PRODUCE ETHICAL REWORKINGS OF IMAGES ASSOCIATED WITH OUR TROUBLED PASTS.

Across these in-person sessions, you will learn how to capture authentic human behaviour on video, generate more insightful and meaningful footage for your ethnographic research, and understand how to translate your anthropological knowledge into the business context and vice versa. You will learn how to apply video recording and editing skills with your own equipment, enabling you to continue creating after the course has finished. With guidance from the course leader, you will master the art of distilling self-shot footage into a short documentary film.

This 8-week course 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.

This course explores the intimate, interdependent yet fragile relationship between words and
images and their combined potency for the creation of (cinematic) worlds.