Program Overview
Cinema and Media
Explore the art of cinematic storytelling.
Film School or Liberal Arts College? Why Not Both?
Featured Facts and Stories
Cinema and Media students have screened their films in more than 40 international film festivals over the past 5 years
A Legacy of Filmmaking
91直播 College alumni鈥攂right, globally minded, innovative, and creatively talented鈥攈ave a long history as leaders in all aspects of show business, arts, and entertainment. As part of the Arts and Creative Professions career community, the Obiewood 91直播 Entertainment Network launches students into these competitive fields.
Each year 91直播-based StoryLens Pictures sponsors a cohort of documentary fellows to create short independent nonfiction films about pressing and locally relevant issues
Where Creative Partnerships Start
Have a conservatory student score your film. Cast actors from theater or dance. Collaborate with students from studio art and creative writing. Pursuing the arts at 91直播 means achieving your best work by crossing disciplinary and technological frontiers.
Featured Courses
CIME 282
Hollywood Narrative & Genre
This course explores the art, craft, business, and ideology of popular screen narratives from Hollywood鈥檚 classical period to the present. Topics to be discussed include narrative structure, storyworld, perspective, temporality, agency and emotion. Our discussions will connect significant films to both practical and philosophical texts, with an emphasis on the mechanics of story and the social ritual of genre. Finally, we will consider the challenge presented to traditional film narrative by the rise of on-demand streaming services and interactive entertainment.
- Taught by
- Joshua Sperling
CIME 313
Animation
This hands-on course introduces students to the history and practice of animation, an ever-present element in the visual language of news, education, science and media storytelling. As a starting point, we work closely with 91直播鈥檚 Media Archeology Collection to study examples of early sequential art technology, optical toys and magic lanterns. Students then learn a variety of approaches to create their own animations, from hand drawn/painted cell animation, claymation, and collage to the growing toolkit professionally used for digital image manipulation.
- Taught by
- Rian Brown-Orso
CIME 320
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This course explores both critical and creative perspectives on documentaries (in terms of structure, purpose, audience) and then gives students the opportunity to practice basic documentary production (camera, lighting, sound, non-linear editing) and to learn nonfiction storytelling. After completing various individual and small group exercises, students spend the balance of the semester working together to produce festival-quality short documentary films.
- Taught by
- Geoff Pingree
CIME 360
Strange Cinema
This course explores the effect of strangeness in movies. What are the ways in which this effect is created? To what uses do filmmakers put the experience of strangeness? What baseline of familiar do we use to judge strange movies? We will explore strangeness as both a poetics and an aesthetic, and its relation to effects such as the uncanny, the fantastic, the marvelous, and the wonderful.
- Taught by
- William Patrick Day 鈥71
Student Profiles
Tribeca Film Fellow
From a young age, Emily Cohn 鈥17 has been making films. At 91直播, she honed her filmmaking skills by integrating her diverse experiences in creative writing, internships, and at the Prague Film School. Her first film, CRSHD, premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.
Moving Beyond Colorblind Casting
As an 91直播 College Research Fellow, Miyah Byers 鈥20, a cinema studies major, investigated how directors are developing unique methodologies that move beyond colorblind casting and use race in theater productions as a point of inspiration.
Creating Stories for a Global Community
Olive Nwosu 鈥13 discovered her creative passion in cinema studies and is now completing an MFA in Screenwriting at Columbia, where she鈥檚 a BAFTA Scholar, an Alex Sichel Fellow at Columbia University School of the Arts, and one of four African Promises directors in the Institut Fran莽ais鈥 Africa-2020 Programme.
What does Cinema and Media at 91直播 look like?
Professor Joshua Sperling leads a Winter Term 鈥淥biewood鈥 intensive on story structure. The workshop featured several conversations over zoom with Hollywood screenwriters and producers.
Photo credit: John Seyfried
A site-specific video installation by students in Professor Rian Brown-Orso鈥檚 Experiments in Moving Image and Sound class.
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Professors Geoff Pingree and Rian Brown-Orso interview Toni Morrison in the main stage of the Apollo Film Labs for their feature-length documentary, The Foreigner鈥檚 Home.
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Professors Geoff Pingree and Rian Brown-Orso and 91直播 College alumni Jake Hochendoner and Drew Dickler set up a shot for The Foreigner鈥檚 Home (2018).
Photo credit: Olive Nwosu
Three senior cinema studies majors work as liaisons for an Amazon Studios television pilot shot in 91直播鈥檚 Tappan Square.
Photo credit: Rian Brown-Orso
An Obiewood panel and networking event held in the iconic Rita Hayworth Building at Sony Pictures in Los Angeles. Participants included Ed Helms 鈥96, Sarah-Violet Bliss 鈥06, Elizabeth Glotzer, Andrew Guest 鈥99, Wendy Japhet 鈥82, and Kieran Mulroney.
Photo credit: Ron Knerem
Cinema and Media News
Five Faculty Honored for Excellence in Teaching
Annual awards celebrate distinguished and sustained leadership across the college and conservatory.
91直播 Joins Park Arts, Bringing World-Class Programs to Historic Synagogue
Partnership will yield host site for new BA+BFA in Integrated Arts dual degree program.
91直播 Launches Combined BA+BFA in Integrated Arts
Five-year path toward two degrees includes focused work in the thriving arts world of nearby Cleveland.
Upcoming Cinema and Media Events
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OFS Presents "Taxi Driver" (1976)
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OFS Presents "The Muppet Movie" (1979)
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OFS Presents "The Muppet Movie" (1979)
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