Moving Images reviews and consolidates the fundamentals of digital video production, including camera and composition skills, the role of sound, lighting, and continuity and montage editing. Students will review and analyze works from traditional cinema and from contemporary digital video. The course reinforces fundamental skills and extend the student's abilities to use a range of digital production, post-production, and presentation techniques.

Since I was hired at SIAT as a professor specializing in Media in 2010, I have been continually working to develop this course toward concrete community engagement and applied collaborative filmmaking. This has been in partnership with local cultural institutions such as the Museum of Vancouver, the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, City Studio, The City of Vancouver, The Reach Community Health Centre, and Vancouver’s Poet Laureate. I successfully redesigned the course to be taught completely online during the covid-19 pandemic, which resulted in a unique archive of over 80 films documenting student and community experience in that challenging time. Student work has been viewed by tens of thousands of visitors to museums, galleries, and online, and has been screened in film and media festivals around the world.

This portfolio consists of examples of syllabi and lectures, reflections on challenges in teaching and course design and our collaborative production model. I also feature examples of student work and documentation of exhibitions featuring student video productions.