Jeffrey Skoller is a filmmaker and writer. He teaches film/video production and courses on the histories and theories of experimental/avant-garde film and video art, documentary/non-fiction film, Third Cinema, activist and other counter-media practices. “In research and image-making, I explore relationships between film and contemporary art, the radical aesthetics and praxis of the political avant-garde; representations of history and time in experimental film and video, and contemporary cinematic hybrids such as the essay film, experimental documentary, animated documentary and expanded cinemas.”
Courses taught include: Documentary film; Avant-garde film; Committed Cinema: Film/Media, Art and Social Change; The Image of Time: Cinematic Temporalities, From History To Entropy: Making History n Cinema; Political Modernism and Beyond: Radical Formalism in Film and New Media, “Mediatized War: Vision, Technology and the Spectacle of Violence in Contemporary Non-Fiction Media; Graduate Production Seminar in Video and Moving Image Media Production; Documentary Film Production
Skoller’s films have been exhibited in museums, universities and festivals internationally. Screenings and exhibitions include: The Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Portland Art Museum, OR; The Gene Siskel Film Center, Art Institute of Chicago, The SF Cinematheque; Museum of the Moving Image, NY; JP Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Whitney Museum, NY; P.S. 1, NY; Anthology Film Archives, NY; Flaherty Film Seminar, NY; Arsenal Kino, Berlin; Mannheim Film Festival, Germany; The Latin American Film Festival, Havana; National Film Theatre, London. His essays and articles on experimental film and video have appeared in Film Quarterly; Discourse; Afterimage; Cinematograph; New Art Examiner, Art Practical among others. Skoller was part of the founding faculty of the Dept. of Film/Video/New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was Director of the Cinema and Media Studies Program at Wellesley College.
Activist and other counter-media practices, Experimental/avant-garde film and video art, Film/video production, Tactical, Theory & Practice of documentary/non-fiction media, Third Cinema.
