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SAIC faculty member Fernando Saldivia Yanez.

Fernando Saldivia Yáñez

Lecturer

Bio

Fernando Saldivia Yáñez (he/him, b.1997) is a Chilean documentary filmmaker based between Puerto Williams, Chile, and Chicago, USA. He obtained his BA from Carleton College (Northfield, MN) and his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL).

Awards: Ann Arbor Film Festival Vox Populi Award; Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Special Jury Award. Exhibitions: Chicago International Film Festival; Ann Arbor Film Festival; Chicago Underground Film Festival; Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Missoula; Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival; Seattle International Film Festival; Santiago International Film Festival; Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art, Santiago; Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago; Chicago Humanities Festival.

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

This course is designed to introduce students to the language and histories of the moving image arts and the diverse ways in which artists have contributed to them. Throughout the semester we will examine a range of approaches to creating moving image work. We will compare and contrast established ?norms? with radical and experimental approaches to these various media, leading to an understanding of the rich, complex, and evolving landscape upon which individuals have been making, and continue to make, moving image art.

Students will engage with this expanded field through lectures, readings, screenings, meetings with visiting artists as well as becoming active in discussions and practitioners in the field via group projects.

Working in small groups, students will complete a series of short projects to introduce them to the various pathways of the department. By the end of the semester, students should have gain basic production and postproduction skills as well a good understanding of the key concepts relevant to contemporary film, video, new media, installation and animation.

Class Number

1414

Credits

3

Description

Form and Meaning is a rigorous investigation of the art of moving image editing and provides a historical and theoretical understanding of both classical film editing and newer modes and models of editing and perception. The course provides a working foundation and framework.

A close reading of films will train the student in the core aesthetic decisions, structures, strategies and demands of editing cinematic works. In addition, we will look at examples and discuss how editing functions for the installation artist, and further, how the Internet, New Media, television and video art have made an impact on concepts surrounding editing. Weekly readings will expand on the work presented in class.

Students should expect to research and write both a midterm and final papers as well as a few short responses to works presented in class. Form and Meaning is a theory-based seminar and is not designed to offer critique for works in progress.

Class Number

1490

Credits

3