FM4135 Film Collectives

Academic year

2025 to 2026 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Planned timetable

TBC

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Module coordinator

Dr I Segui

Dr I Segui
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Module Staff

Dr Isabel Segui

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Module description

Filmmaking is always a collective endeavour often marketed as the work of a single author. However, some cinematic practices are programmatically collective. In this module, we tour global film collectives, focusing on their ideological and theoretical underpinnings, production practices and aesthetic results. We do so by going beyond the narrow lens of auteurist paradigms and capitalist production logic and acknowledging film's potential as an emancipatory praxis. The programme offers the students a set of methodological tools that would allow them to understand filmmaking as worldmaking. For that, we analyse variegated feminist, queer, Indigenous and other oppositional cinematic experiences all over the globe, in India, Peru, France, Bolivia, Australia, Brazil, the UK, Colombia, the US, Argentina and Canada.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS FM2002 AND PASS FM2003

Assessment pattern

Coursework= 100%

Re-assessment

Coursework= 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1x2-hour seminar (x11 weeks), 1x 2-hour screening (x11 weeks)

Scheduled learning hours

44

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

260

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • acquire specialised knowledge of a wide range of emancipatory film processes and practices and the appropriate historiographical tools needed to research these phenomena
  • develop a multi-layered and dynamic understanding of cinema that combines representation, aesthetics, and conditions of film production from a global perspective
  • engage creatively and critically with a variety of primary and secondary sources that underpin global film histories
  • critically articulate their own positionality as film researchers
  • develop research, critical, and practical writing and oral skills that are necessary for academic research, and which are transferrable to industry, administrative, and non-profit jobs