because i’m teaching a film class, that’s why

A quar­ter or two ago (in aca­d­e­m­ic terms) a bunch of my stu­dents in their fi­nal class spent a few hours caus­ing light to re­flect and dis­tort through a se­ries of built let­ter­form con­structs.

This was be­yond the fi­nal project as as­signed, the play just hap­pened. And most of it was caught on their in­di­vid­ual phones. Cause most of us car­ry cam­eras with us wher­ev­er we go.

Ex­per­i­men­tal cin­e­ma is a fa­vorite of mine – and it’s pret­ty much wat my stu­dents end­ed up do­ing, sans screen­play.

Jump over to The Ex­pres­sion­ists and their world of Light and Shad­ow – one can find some of the roots for a slew of wat we see to­day in pop­u­lar cul­ture.

Throw in some DADA and mod­ern ab­strac­tion was in mo­tion even be­fore Dis­ney gave us Fan­ta­sia (1940).

 

This and MOR
will be part of a Fri­day morn­ing edit­ing class I’m teach­ing at Amer­i­can Riv­er Col­lege in Sacra­men­to.

Class starts 19 Jan­u­ary 2018.

And since FLOMM has a whole con­tin­gent of film­mak­ers who hang around car­ry­ing heavy equip­ment look­ing for things to shoot, I’m invit­ing these FLOM­MIST pro­fes­sion­als to sit in and mess around with this class. Oh, and mu­si­cians and hip hop peo­ple too. Re­al­ly. (hint: MU­SIC VIDEOS may be in­volved)

“This is go­ing to be an ex­per­i­men­tal film class that does what we couldn’t do in film school!”
one of them pro­claimed, ex­cit­ed for the prospects. He didn’t even have the wor­ried look I usu­al­ly get when I an­nounce I’m about to do some­thing FLOMMTER­WO­VEN like this.

“We’ll fix it in edit­ing!”
I have pro­claimed, ’cause this is RE­AL­LY wat the class will all be about. And it’s some­thing I kno how to do. Fix thru edit­ing.

ALSO,
I am cur­rent­ly work­ing on a cou­ple of short FLOMM films that will be sand­wiched in the class, the rest will tack­le edit­ing, tim­ing, tem­po, Mo­holy-Nagy-like ex­per­i­men­ta­tion and a whole slew of prac­ti­cal op­ti­cal ef­fects go­ing back to the dawn of mov­ing pic­tures.

AND yeah,
there will be soft­ware in­volved. Adobe Pre­miere. We’ll be in the school’s brand new Art New Me­dia lab. Fri­day morn­ings. With ac­cess to the IN­CRED­I­BLE COF­FEE of ARC’s five-star Oak Café (best food in town, in my hum­ble food­ie opin­ion).

SIGN UP FOR
ARTNM332 Dig­i­tal Video ASAP ’cause the class is al­most full. And bring your imag­i­na­tion. And a good worth eth­ic.

Wat’s the worst that can hap­pen??
 
 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM! Pic­tured: Screen grab from my up­com­ing FLOMM film ‘Nev­er Cross Me,’ fea­tur­ing Kylie Jack­son.

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