MOTION IN FILM
Ages 16-29
Spring 2022, JHU-MICA Film Centre
Beginning with Eadweard Muybridge’s pioneering 1878 study of a galloping horse (watch it here!), film has been fascinated with motion. In this videography workshop, student fellows will make their own studies, experimenting with a variety of sources of movement: moving figures and objects; moving features of décor or the environment; a moving camera, whether tracking or panning on a fixed axis. And they’ll explore how cutting from one image to the next can, in its own way, introduce movement on screen. Turning their cameras on everything from skateboarders to runaway pets, from traffic to escalators, from boiling water to falling rain, they’ll rediscover early film’s love of evolving compositions, in which movement itself is the subject, as engaging as any narrative. They’ll create both collaborative and individual short videos, and their work will be shared at a public exhibition and on the program website. Limited to 9 student fellows.
Charles Cohen's most recent documentary film is The Crooked Tune, an Old Time Fiddler in a Modern World. He holds an MFA in Film and Digital Media from American University and has written for The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, and Baltimore City Paper.
Emmet Sheehan is a Baltimore City native with a background in stage and film. He was part of the pilot program that helped launch the film department at Baltimore School for the Arts, and trained at North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Intensive. He is currently working on several short film projects.
