Engaging creative process, poetic knowledge, and aesthetic experience, our initiatives build local, national and international linkages through ongoing exchange of works and ideas.
Artist Talks & workshops
A series of open-form conversations, workshops, screenings, and masterclasses about hybrid nonfiction forms with leading artist-researchers. Students and community members engage in dialogue with renowned film artists about creative forms and research processes. Open to the public.
Works-in-progress
An open-platform series focused on innovative approaches to experimental nonfiction. Makers present in-progress projects with students and faculty across the Fine Arts in a relaxed, low stakes environment. Students can receive constructive feedback on projects at any stage of development.
Research projects
Affiliated students and faculty produce experimental nonfiction works that examine the material, aesthetic, and embodied dimensions of cinematic world-making. Our projects facilitate student training in research-creation methodologies.
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Past Initiatives
Within Our Community – A speaker series highlighting work by acclaimed faculty and alumni.
Reading Group – An informal, student-run learning initiative mobilizing discussion of key topics in artistic research and experimental nonfiction.
Visual Collections Repository (VCR) – A screening series hosted by MFA students and faculty. Organizers curate moving image works from FOFA’s VCR collection and lead discussion on forms and processes in dialogue with Fabrique-mondes’ ongoing research projects.