Holly Willis is a professor at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, where she leads the Media Arts + Practice Division. A co-founder of Filmmaker Magazine, she has dedicated her career to independent film and has a significant history with publications like RES magazine and RESFEST. Her writing frequently explores the cutting edge of experimental film, video, and new media.
Investigates a full range of contemporary creative practices dedicated to the future of mediated storytelling and by connecting with a new generation of filmmakers, screenwriters, technologists, media artists, and designers to discover how they work now, and toward what end.
This introduction to contemporary digital cinema tracks its intersection with video art, music video, animation, print design and live club events to create an avant-garde for the new millennium. It begins by investigating digital cinema and its contribution to innovations in the feature-film format, examining animation and live-action hybrids, the gritty aesthetic of the Dogme 95 filmmakers, the explosions of frames within frames and the evolution of the ‘ambient narrative’ film. This study then looks at the creation of new genres and moving-image experiences as what we know as ‘cinema’ enters new venues and formats.