ObjectivesThe Graduate Film Production program promotes an expanded notion of cinema, encouraging all formats of image support, including film and digital-based media, and forms of exhibition, from traditional single-channel projection to installation. Aesthetic innovation and experimentation across subject and genre – including abstract cinema, documentary, fiction and hybrid forms – are strongly emphasized. Eschewing television production and mainstream dramatic approaches, the program is intensive and participatory, providing a rigorous academic setting where new approaches to the art of cinema are explored and defined. This course of study is ideal for filmmakers committed to the notion of an independent studio art practice. Our graduate students are multidisciplinary artist-researchers working at the vanguard of cinema and new media.
Practical experienceThere are internships associated with this program.
Academic titleMaster of Fine Arts in Film Production
Course descriptionFILM STUDIES
200/3 AA Introduction to Film Studies
211/3 A History of Film to 1959
211/3 AA History of Film to 1959 (French)
211/3 B History of Film to 1959
211/4 C History of Film to 1959
212/3 A Film Aesthetics
212/3 AA Film Aesthetics
212/3 B Film Aesthetics
214/4 AA English-Canadian Film
215/4 A Le cinéma québecois (English)
217/2 A First Nations and Film
311/4 AA Montage Aesthetic
312/2 A Moving Camera Aesthetic
318/2 AA Experimental Film
321/3 A Studies in Film Directors
321/3 AA Studies in Film Directors
322/3 A History of Film Since 1959
323/2 A History of Animated Film (in french)
325/4 A Film Acting
329/2 A Women and Film
332B/4 A Issues in Independent Cinema: Narrative Filmmakers 80s/90s
335Q/2 AA Aspects of National Cinemas: Intro to Irish Film
335S/4 A Aspects of National Cinemas: Chinese Cinema
350F/4 AA Studies in Film Genres: The Horror Film
391/2 A Sexual Representation/Cinema
392/4 AA Queer Cinema I
398Q/2 AA Special Topics in FMST: Theatre and Film
409/4 A Seminar in Women's Cinema since the 1990s
418/4 AA Seminar in English-Canadian Film
421/2 A Seminar: Film Script Analysis
448B/4 A Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Cinema and Painting
450/2 A Specialization Seminar
600/3 A Methods in Film Studies
610F/2 A Topics in Quebec Cinema
Special Subject: Drawing Movement: Animate Form in Quebec
620C/4 A Topics in Non-European Cinema
Special Subject: Chinese Cinema
650A(850A)/4 A Topics in Experimental Film and Video
Special Subject: American Avant-Garde 1943-1970
660E(860E)/4 A Topics in Film Directors
Special Subject: Neil Jordan
660H(860H)/2 AA Topics in Film Directors
Special Subject: Pier Paolo Pasolini
665E(865E)/2 A Topics in Film Studies
Special Subject: Film Script Analysis
665F(865F)/2 AA Topics in Film Studies
Special Subject: Temporality in the Cinema
800/3 A Proseminar
Martin Lefebvre
803/2 A Seminar in Film and Moving Image Theory
804/4 AA Seminar in Film, Moving Image and Cultural Theory
FILM PRODUCTION
231/3 A Filmmaking I
231/3 B Filmmaking I
231/3 C Filmmaking I
231/3 D Filmmaking I
231/3 E Filmmaking I
332/3 A Filmmaking II (Documentary)
332/3 AA Filmmaking II (Experimental)
332/3 B Filmmaking II (Fiction)
332/3 C Filmmaking II (Narrative)
335/2 A Act & Directing Act for Screen I (English)
336/4 AA Intro to Film Producing
338/2 A Image I
338/2 AA Image I
338/2 B Image I
338/2 C Image I
339/2 A Montage in Filmmaking
339/2 B Montage in Filmmaking
339/2 C Montage in Filmmaking
339/2 D Montage in Filmmaking
340/4 A Sound I
340/4 B Sound I
340/4 C Sound I
3404 D Sound I
341/2 AA Writing for Film I (FR)
341/2 BB Writing for Film I (EN)
350/2 A Ways of Seeing in FMPR
432/3 A Filmmaking III
432/3 B Filmmaking III
435/4 A Act & Directing Act for Screen II (English)
438/2 A Image II
439/4 A Advanced Montage Filmmaking
441/4 AA Writing for Film II
442/4 A Optical Printer Practice
498J/4 A Special Topics in FMPR: Expanded Cinema
498L/4 AA Special Topics in FMPR: Development Stage