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Film/Video

As a Film/Video student at MassArt, you will experiment across mediums and genres while developing your personal artistic vision.

Our Film/Video Department redefines what it means to be an artist working with the moving image. Our students are challenged to create new forms of viewing experiences that are personal, conceptual, abstract, political, visceral, and visionary. Students learn all stages of production, from concept to visual design, from directing to editing. They work with the most current equipment and technology, experiment with expanded platforms of digital media, and hold internships with local production companies.

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Film Cage, Studios, & Resources

Our Film/Video students have access to an exceptional array of film equipment, black box studios, lighting studios, and screening rooms.

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Ciné Culture Series

The Film/Video program brings accomplished speakers to campus each semester, including artists, historians, editors, and curators.

18 unique undergraduate programs. 10 graduate degree programs. A world of opportunity.
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DIG THIS: INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL BOSTON 2023

  • Campus News
  • Film/Video

Notable films screening this weekend include Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, a nonfiction feature where “the actor playfully recounts his journey with intimacy, candor, and humor” (4/28, Somerville Theatre, 7:45pm); two programs of alumni-produced shorts celebrating the 150th Anniversary of MassArt (4/29, Somerville Theatre, 8pm, and 4/30, Somerville Theatre, 4pm); and centerpiece documentary screening Never Be a Punching Bag for Nobody, “an affecting portrait of an East Boston boxing gym” directed by musician Naomi Yang (4/30, Brattle Theatre, 7:45pm).

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Outsider art is in at the new Shoe Bones gallery in Salem

  • Alumni in the News
  • Film/Video

Journalist Roger Cardinal wrote a book titled “Outsider Art” in 1972, introducing the term to describe art that has an unfiltered, even unrefined quality. While Symonds wouldn’t consider herself an outsider artist due to receiving an art education from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, she said she became disillusioned with academic art and high-end commercial art. Establishing Shoe Bones was a way for Symonds to cultivate a welcoming community that is the antithesis of the strictness of formal art galleries.

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Document the chaos’: Love of fiction, costumes rockets South Shore woman to internet fame

  • Alumni in the News
  • Film/Video

“Rachel Maksy is a woman out of a time machine.

“The soft curls in her hair take inspiration from the 1950s; her wardrobe is a mix of corsets, homemade vests, tea-length skirts and vintage shoes; and she does all of the crafting projects that rocketed her to internet stardom in a small, 1800s-era shed in her back yard.

“With more than a million subscribers on YouTube and almost half that on Instagram, the Kingston native is more reserved than you’d expect from a woman whose weekly videos are watched by hundreds of thousands of people and whose talents recently caught the eye of Amazon Studios. Maksy was one of 50 online influencers from around the country recently chosen by the studio to create sponsored content promoting a series, “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” which premiered Thursday.”

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The biggest year of growth’: SouthCoast LGBTQ+ Network makes huge strides in 2021

  • Alumni in the News
  • Film/Video

In July, the [ LGBTQ+ Winter Film Series ] received a mini-grant to support and celebrate filmmakers in the area. The group awarded the grant to Noah Duarte, 22, an Acushnet MassArt student for a short film scheduled to shoot in the Azores.

Duarte says the film will explore themes such as queer identity, loneliness, and masculinity. “I feel like it’s my job to be able to share this unique and personal story with everyone,” he added.

Production was completed in September and the film will hopefully be screened during the 2022 winter series.

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In the ’80s, Post-Punk Filled New York Clubs. Their Videos Captured It.

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  • Film/Video

An exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York documents a brief moment when rogue videographers shot an influential sliver of the music scene, including MassArt grad Merrill Aldighieri.

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MassArt filmmaker Noah Duarte plans to shoot movie in the Azores

  • MassArt in the Media
  • Film/Video

MassArt recent graduate Noah Duarte plans to travel to the Azores this summer to shoot “The Lonely Doryman,” a short film that explores themes of queer identity, loneliness and masculinity and is set against the backdrop of Portugal’s complex traditional values during Salazar’s regime. In this photo, Duarte can be seen with film crew members Ali Fernandes (at left) and Christian Kalcic.

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5 Art-school Grads to Watch for 2021

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  • Film/Video

MassArt graduate student Sebastian Gonzalez Quintero was chosen by Boston Globe correspondent Cait McQuaid as an “art grad to watch.” 

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