CORE 010A SC - Stranger than Fiction

We live in a bewilderingly quick-changing world, and it can be hard to make sense of it all. In many ways, reality today seems stranger than fiction. Nonfiction cinema was born in times like these. At the turn of the 19th century, new technologies (including the invention of the moving pictures), new ideas, and new forms of art radically changed the way people lived and saw their world. Ever since the Lumières’ first films in 1895, nonfiction cinema has responded to our need to understand these transformations by observing, representing, and questioning reality. In the words of Wim Wenders, “The most political decision you make is where you direct people’s eyes.” But nonfiction filmmakers have been doing something even more important: they have constantly invented new ways of seeing, and this course will show you how.

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