The Film/Animation area offers a range of courses that build critical, conceptual and technical skills in production and post-production in all genres and gauges, including single-screen and multiple projection. Seminar courses examine film and animation's history through contemporary thought, aesthetic and historical movements and cultural practice.
Whether hand-processing celluloid, shooting with the Bolex or 24-frame Panasonic digital camera, editing on the Steenbecks or in the Avid suite, animating images frame-by-frame or projecting two screens side by side, you will work with both traditional and cutting-edge processes. We encourage individual projects, and advanced students are encouraged to finish on to film, enabled by our Oxberry animation stand, JK optical printer, matchback capabilities in digital post and the 16mm developer and contact printer. You also have the option to produce digitally in Final Cut Pro, Pro Tools, Avid and Flash in our individual and group edit suites.
Screenings and visiting artists and critics are a regular part of the semester, providing exposure to a wide variety of contemporary, personal and experimental works.
Previous Course Offerings
Below are previous course offerings for the Film and Animation area. Students must go to mySMFA to see current course offerings and register.
Students in the undergraduate, graduate, Studio and Post-Baccalaureate certificate programs may also take Continuing Education courses for credit.
INTRO TO FILMMAKING / FLM 1015
SUPER 8 FILMMAKING / FLM 1023
FILM I: VISIONS AND CONSTRUCTION PART I / FLM 1024
ANIMATION I / FLM 1070
ANIMATION PRODUCTION ANIMATION II / FLM 2006
SOUND FOR THE MOVING IMAGE / FLM 2009 01
THE OXBERRY STAND FOR FILMMAKERS / FLM 2017
CRITICAL SCREENING SEMINAR / FLM 2020
FILM II: SOUND AND IMAGE / FLM 2051
ANIMATION III: ADVANCED ANIMATION PROJECTS / FLM 3008
ADVANCED FILM/ANIMATION / FLM 3009
ANIMATION PRODUCTIONS / FLM 3009 01
ADVANCED FILM PRODUCTION CINEMATOGRAPHY / FLM 3030
EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION STRATEGY / FLM 3035
16MM FILMMAKING / FLM 3040
DIRECTED STUDY / FLM 3072 01
COLLAGE FOR ANIMATION / FLM 4021 01
16MM FILMMAKING / FLM 4030
SUPER-8MM FILMMAKING / FLM 4031
DRAWING FOR ANIMATION / FLM 4034 01
CRITICAL SCREENINGS: ALTERNATIVE / FLM 4087 01
INDEPENDENT STUDY FILM/ANIM / FLM 4098
