- Instructor: Katie Model
- Instructor: Katie Model
- Instructor: Mia Mask
- Instructor: Denise Iris
This course studies the work of the Spanish-Mexican filmmaker Luis Buñuel, from his first short film, Un Chien Andalou (1928, co-directed with Salvador Dalí), to his last feature, This Obscure Object of Desire (1977), focusing on the relationship between aesthetics and production context. A filmmaker who started in 1920s European avant-garde circles as one of the founders of surrealism, Buñuel found a new career in the Mexican studio system, and eventually transformed Mexican cinema from within once that studio system crumbled, becoming a model for arthouse filmmaking in the country. In this course, we will look at examples from the many phases of the filmmaker’s varied career in search of persistent personality traits, patterns, and themes in different production contexts and stages of his creative life.
- Instructor: Fabio Andrade
This course analyzes global cinema focusing on a single year: 2001. Standing as a retroactive passage between two historical periods - the unipolar world symbolically established with the fall of the Berlin wall, and the war on terror triggered by 9/11 - 2001 is an especially interesting year for cinema, with landmark works being released around the world that pushed to the limit some of the formal motifs developed in the previous decade. Taking as an example the way 1968 has become a symbolic year for the experimentation of the 1960s, this course looks at films released in 2001 in search for clues of the historical shifts taking place at the threshold between the "end of history" (Fukuyama) and the instability of the post-9/11 world.
- Instructor: Fabio Andrade
