ARTSVIS 375S · also CINE 373S, DOCST 375S, LIT 373S, VMS 375S
The Archival Film
Jason Keith Sudak
Description from DukeHub
The Archival Film covers found footage filmmaking, cinematic appropriation, and the use of archival materials in documentaries and online media. The course addresses early, experimental, and documentary cinema, as well as television and the internet. The course has a key emphasis on practice-based assignments, with a concurrent focus on the field’s historical impact, from seminal moments to the contemporary moment through films and readings on the subject.
Skills
- research methodstitle: "archival"
- makingdepartment: ARTSVIS
AI-resilient: 2 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- No: Live work with people
- No: Judgment someone is accountable for
- Yes: A craft you practice with your hands or body · "filmmaking"
- Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 15 seats per section
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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