Category: Film

Congratulations to the fifteen senior CAMS majors who presented their comps projects and papers at CAMS Comps Symposium recently.

CAMS alum Brit Fryer ’15 has been invited to Sundance as an Ignite Fellow on the strength of his CAMS comps film Trans-ience, an experimental short that explores his experience as a trans man.

Professor Susan Jaret McKinstry participated in an Associated Colleges of the Midwest workshop on Digital Storytelling and produced a short film, Life’s Work, exploring how a meaningful narrative is created from images, words, and sounds. Her course ENGL 362 Narrative Theory, formerly an elective course for the CAMS major, will be offered starting Fall 2016 as an option for CAMS majors to fulfill a 300-level core requirement.

CAMS professor Rini Keagy recently gave a public talk on a multi-media installation Ordinal [SW/NE], which she co-produced with artist Miljohn Ruperto. The producers are now working on a film as a further exploration of the subject matter in the installation.

CAMS professor Cecilia Cornejo premiered her new documentary film, Make No Noise: The Story of a Skatepark, to an overflow crowd at the Weitz Center for Creativity on Sunday, December 19 at 4:30pm. 

Students enrolled in Professor Laska Jimsen’s CAMS 270 Nonfiction course, in collaboration with Carleton’s Center for Community and Civic Engagement, have produced a series of short videos for Northfield community partners.

An animated short film by senior CAMS major Sam Frederich ’16 screened in the “Inner Space/Outer Space Shorts Block” at the Twin Cities Film Festival recently.

CAMS faculty Paul Hager will present a reading of his original new screenplay, Cannon Shoals, on Wednesday, October 14 at 7:30pm at the NAG Theater, 411 West 3rd St. Cannon Shoals is a seven episode television series written for the web.

Professor Jay Beck recently published three new essays on the aesthetics of film sound.

Students in Professor Jay Beck’s spring term CAMS 265 Sound Design class were asked to “sonorize” the works in the Perlman Teaching Museum’s Sets, Series, Sounds exhibition, creating soundscapes to match the periods and locations represented in the artworks.