Jun 30, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

FILM 3550 - Experimental Film


In this course, students produce films using non-traditional filmmaking techniques. Students will also screen various contemporary and historical experimental films to help them understand the different non-traditional techniques available to them and to place themselves in the history of experimental cinema.

Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 lecture, 2.0 laboratory
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to describe the techniques of non-traditional filmmaking, and apply these techniques to their film practice.
  • Students will be able to identify and discuss major filmmakers, film styles, and film movements in the history of experimental films.
  • Students will be able to analyze experimental films in relation to their techniques, aesthetics, the formal and theoretical questions they raise.


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