This course will offer an introduction to this contemporary period of Irish film history, sometimes known as the “Second Wave, focusing particularly on its most recent decade.

This course focuses on Italian films after the Second World War as a mirror through which the student can penetrate Italian culture and way of life. Starting with the years following the Second World War (“Roma città aperta”, 1946), to more recent productions such as La Vita è Bella (1997), motion pictures will allow the student to become familiar with several aspects of Italian experience in the second part of 20th century. Lectures, film viewings, discussion of films and readings, student research and presentations will be relevant parts of class sessions.

British Cinema is one of the most vital national cinemas in the world.

This is an intensive hands-on digital filmmaking course held in and around Dún Laoghaire, a beautiful coastal town just outside of Dublin and home to IADT, the National Film School of Ireland. Filmmaking in Ireland will give you the opportunity to directly experience how cinematographers and filmmakers practice the language of visual storytelling. Ireland is a country and a people with a rich and complex history. But it is also a potential cinematic canvas to be created out of graphic elements of light and shadow, past and present, moods and textures.

This course is to look at contemporary Chinese cinema as a visual art and to illustrate the ways in which it has been shaped by Chinese cultural, social and political tradition over the past three decades. Emphasizing on both film contexts and film texts, this course invites students to a broad cinematic analysis. In order to achieve such goals and inspire critical thinking, ten filmmakers and movies in diverse style and subject are carefully selected to cover a range of cultural, cross-cultural, intellectual, social, ethnic, and political issues.

Esta asignatura se plantea como una materia, ante todo, práctica con la que se pretende alcanzar una serie de conocimientos de temáticas distintas: el cine (técnicas, estilo, etc.), la historia del cine español (directores, actores, evolución) y algunos aspectos de la cultura española (historia, sociedad, arte).

This course is devoted to exploring the ins and outs of feature film screenwriting, with emphasis shown to the crime genre. Through the exploration of the craft, students will acquire an in-depth knowledge and understanding of how to develop a screenplay from core idea to fully finished screenplay.  Students will first learn how to format a screenplay correctly for the industry and then be taken through the process of developing the core idea and theme which is central to the work.

Italian cinema has a long and glorious tradition from movements like “neorealism” to auteurs like Visconti, Rossellini, and Fellini. This class is structured in the form of a cultural geography of three cities, following the boot from north to south. It offers a deliberate contrast of representation between the classic and the contemporary so we have a better sense of the land and the people through the camera’s capture of history.

This course aims to provide a comprehensive but selective overview and analysis of the landmarks of Italian cinema from its beginnings in the Silent era to current production more than 100 years later. The course examines the ways in which Italian cinema reflects the evolution of modern Italy in terms of the changing social, political, economic and cultural developments which characterize 20th century Italian life.

For centuries artists and writers have created sketchbooks and journals inspired by Italy’s rich culture, physical beauty and history. Through direct observation and engagement with the natural landscape, architecture and culture of daily life of Tuscany and its surrounding regions, students will record their impressions and create personal travel journals that capture the “zeitgeist” (spirit) of Tuscany. We will explore a variety of writing, sketching, and mixed-media techniques, both traditional and experimental, to help students find their personal voice.