Encounters with otherness: guerrilla filmmaking

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Encounters with otherness: guerrilla filmmaking

“I shall be talking on a conference panel about my Guerrilla Filmmaking module and producing an essay about its teaching method that uses digital filmmaking.”

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In May 2017, I am scheduled to speak at a Symposium on Media, Communication, and Film Studies Programs at Liberal Arts Colleges at Colby College, in Maine, USA. The topic of the panel is ‘Encounters with Otherness,’ and as part of this I shall be talking about the Guerrilla Filmmaking module that I have been running at the University of Roehampton, London, for the last six years. For, the teaching methods developed on the module – whereby students are invited to make a series of short films with minimal equipment and responding to a set of thematic challenges – would transpose well to the American liberal arts college environment. In this way, attending the conference will help me to prepare an essay that I intend to publish on guerrilla filmmaking in the near future, and which I hope will find a readership not just in the UK but also in the USA. The essay will explore how the module and the teaching method defined in it help to give to students the tools to tell educators how better to understand them and their approach to the world through the use of new digital filmmaking technologies. 

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