2010 Visual Studies Workshop Summer Institute

Video Experiments with Fact & Fiction
Julie Perini
July 26-July 30

In this workshop students will investigate the blurry boundaries between fact and fiction. We will screen and discuss examples of fake documentaries, mockumentaries, re–enactments, diary films, and other films and videos that call truth into question. Students will collaboratively generate and shoot a short fictional script, create personal documentary videos based on their own lives, and create works that freely mix staged, fake, or fictional material with unstaged, truthful, or factual material. Students will learn basic camera operations, image composition, basic lighting techniques, incorporating appropriated material, and a number of editing strategies using Final Cut Pro software.

Julie Perini is an artist working in time–based media including video, film, and live events. For the past several years she has split her time between Portland, Oregon and the Rust Belt cities of Buffalo, NY, and Edinboro, PA. She received her MFA from the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and her undergraduate degree from Cornell University. She is a recipient of the 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in Cross–Disciplinary/Performative work. Her recent manifesto on “Relational Filmmaking” was included in INCITE! The
Journal of Experimental Media and Radical Aesthetics, edited by Brett Kashmere. Julie currently teaches Film Studies at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Find out more at julieperini.org.

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