Six-week class beginning April 3, 2025
(This class meets every other week)
Course Description:
Join us for a comprehensive study into a topic or subject from the expansive history of cinema. With each topic we will look at several examples, charting how the filmmakers’ histories and the overall cultural context reflect on the forms, styles and techniques.
This Spring, our topic is “The Burden of Dreams: Documentaries about Film Production”. We will explore five different chronicles of the production process, documentaries about the creation of feature films. In some cases, these films (within the films) go on to become world renowned, appreciated for years to come; in other cases, the films barely find an audience or are even left unfinished entirely. A film production involves uniquely complicated variables, depending on the the nature and content of the story; these diverse documentaries will showcase the trials and tribulations of the process, from the planning stages through principal photography, until post-production and the final release (for those films that make it that far). Jacques Rivette, critic and filmmaker of the French New Wave, once said, “Every film is a documentary of its own making. Not only a record for posterity of the people in it, but also a window into the culture that produced it.”
Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate
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This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom prior to your first class: www.zoom.us
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You will be emailed Zoom meeting instructions, including a unique URL and meeting ID, to join the class 1 day before the start of the class.
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Review the supply list posted. Students are responsible for purchasing all necessary supplies except where indicated.
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Classes that do not meet enrollment minimums will be cancelled three days prior to the start of the class.
Pricing Details
Your price, which appears in the box to the right, has been automatically calculated from the following levels:
- Regular Rate:
Price$220.00
- Member Rate:
Member Price$200.00
Except for the Independent Study Program, EAC membership is no longer required to take adult classes. EAC members receive a tuition discount on all adult classes, youth classes and workshops. A $75 Independent Study membership is required to participate in the Independent Study Program. The Evanston resident discount no longer applies.