Department of Cinematic Arts
a
letter from
the chair
Dear Students,
I’d like to invite you to join the historic efforts of the Department of Cinematic Arts, of the College of Fine Arts, in leading filmmaking, video production, and related art, thought, and practice at UNM.
Our mission is to provide future 16mm filmmakers, visual studies theorists, digital video artists, traditional film historians, avant-garde thinkers, experimental arts practitioners, Hollywood screenwriters, film philosophers, solo filmic artisans, cultural studies scholars, mixed-media/time-based artists, filmic fiction writers, contemplative critics, and other poets with a hands-on experience of the cinematic.
You can earn the BA or minor in Media Arts, study a single course, or participate in a Course Series from “Cine Latino” to “Visual Epistemologies.” Grad students also may take CA courses for graduate credit, but we don’t as yet offer a Masters Degree in Film Studies.
We’ve seventy-some majors, numerous minors, and students from across the campus actively involved in the theoretical and practical worlds necessary to the making and criticism of film as art.
Our cinematic artists investigate the poetics of space and place; narrative and non-narrative filmic experiments; literature and screenplays; immersive atmospheres from aquaria to zoos; phenomenology and perception; museums installations; sonic environments; creative non-fiction and poetry; affect and psychoanalysis; movies; pictures of motion and stasis; and inter/national examples of (extra)ordinary moving-image art.
The best ways to understand our unique nature and our view of the cinematic across the arts can be had by studying with our five core faculty, five regular adjunct lecturers, two jointly-appointed professors, plus several adjunct professors and lecturers from other departments.
Visit the College of Fine Arts web site at http://finearts.unm.edu for further information regarding applications, requirements, forms, and everything else. Or contact us using the information below.
To speak with an advisor, call 505-277-2111. And to obtain a catalogue you may contact:
UNM Bookstore
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
505-277-5451 or http://bookstore.unm.edu
With appreciation of your interest, and in anticipation of any questions you might have,
Susan Dever
Chair
Susan (center) with Hue (left) and Enrico (right), ARTS Lab Colleagues