VM 313 - Global Indigenous Cinema

Credits: 4
This course explores the broad scope of global Indigenous cinema, discovering narratives underpinned by the oral tradition, ritual, and the collective consciousness, and themes related to motherhood, identity, self-determination, and sovereignty. Engaging narrative features, documentaries, experimental shorts, video art, and animation, students are asked to consider how indigenous filmmakers combat discrimination, advocate for resources and rights, preserve their cultures, languages, and aesthetic traditions, and ultimately decolonize the screen.

Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): VM 200 or VM 201
Course Restrictions: Junior or Senior status
Liberal Arts Perspective(s): Global Diversity and Justice