MA Film Practice (Online)

Throughout the MA Film Practice (Online) course, you're encouraged to question and debate established and mainstream modes of film practice. Supported by bespoke lectures, group seminars, and one-to-one tutorials, you'll explore the overlapping histories and iterations of film and moving images. Through guided readings and screenings, you're encouraged to think critically about their own and others' work and to consider how through specific approaches, subjects, theories, and methodologies, film practice can engage with our contemporary world. You'll have opportunities to work independently and collaboratively through projects considering how films and moving image works are developed, funded, presented, and disseminated.

MA Film Practice (Online) enables you to actively expand your existing knowledge and approaches to film and moving images. It welcomes applicants not only from film and moving image backgrounds, but also from individuals with experience in related and complementary fields, including photography, performance, contemporary art, and sound work.

The course culminates in each student creating a substantial short film or moving image work accompanied by a practice research document that critically reflects on, and articulates, the research, development, and making of their final MA work.

MA Film Practice (Online) is a part-time degree undertaken over a period of two years. The units forming the course have been specifically designed to develop your individual voice and vision.

You'll begin with an introductory unit, in which you'll be supported in evaluating and positioning your existing and perspectives in relation to the approaches and ways of working that comprise contemporary film practice including narrative fiction, documentary, essay film, artist moving images, experimental film, and expanded cinema.

Together with your fellow students and supported by bespoke lectures, and teaching staff who are themselves professional practising filmmakers, artists and writers, you'll develop your individual practice while building your understanding of filmmaking concepts and techniques. Throughout the course, you'll work through a series of short practice-led research assignments designed to help you master distinct processes of making, thinking, and reflecting on yours and other film practices. The MA will culminate in a final thesis project supported through one-to-one supervision.