Student Work (selection)

IML 521 Graduate Seminar 

Non-Fiction Cinematic Practice I+II

Students of this class were introduced to contemporary techniques for the use of video in academic scholarship and art projects. By equipping themselves with the tools required for sophisticated documentation, expression and argumentation through the video medium, students enhanced their ability to make meaningful contributions to the discourse of their chosen fields.

Selection:

Daniel Venegas, Visual Anthropology MA

Sophie Dia Pegrum, Visual Anthropology MA

IML 477 Undergraduate Seminar

Embodied Storytelling and Immersive Docu-Narratives

With the advent of digital media; film, performance art, and theatre have been quick to embrace new interactive and immersive platforms to enhance the work in their respective fields. Students of this course were working towards a public exhibition of the class project open to the broader community. This project had to be transferred online due to the pandemic.

link to class project: http://map-courses.usc.edu/iml477/index.html

IML 295 Undergraduate Seminar

Race, Class + Gender in Digital Culture

Students of this class focused on three different forms of difference: race, gender, and class in digital culture within the United States and the “global” community. In particular, the group examined these forms of difference in relation to digital technology, and question how digital media serves to complicate, diversify, deconstruct and recreate cultural and social boundaries in the understanding of race, class, and gender, as well as, how concepts of race, class and gender are embodied in digital technologies.

link to class project: https://scalar.usc.edu/works/museum-of-resistance-and-resilience-/index