This course explores the intersection of fiction, autobiography, and collective creation through filmmaking. It draws on Latin American group-theater traditions, autobiographical and documentary/fiction film hybrid practices. Students generate material from their own experiences and transform it through structured fictional exercises. Students will crew and perform in a film directed by the instructors. The class functions as both laboratory and performance space, examining how narratives are built and how identities are staged.
Atelier Courses
Atelier
This course introduces innovative collaborative strategies that help artists ethically integrate history, ritual, and/or embodied knowledge into creative practice. Students will study the methods of multidisciplinary artists and historians as a pathway to developing original projects during the semester. With collaborators Talie Cerin, Laurin Talese, and Jade Hicks, Professor Joachim will use her opera-in-progress as a living study which engages these methodologies, incorporating the legacy of Black Surrealist, Afrofuturist, and Afrodiasporic spiritual and storytelling traditions, and their connections to democracy and global freedom.