“First Ever Twitter Film Fest”
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
A friend of mine, Negar Mottahedeh, is a professor at Duke University, where she teaches Introduction to Film Studies (as well as being a writer and thinker on film, culture, the arts and innovation, among other things). As a semester-end group project, she cooked up the idea of a Twitter film festival. What exactly does that mean, you ask? It involved setting up a blog featuring YouTube clips from various films that were screened at different hours, as well as setting up a shared Twitter account (twitfilm) and then tweeting about them as a form of class discussion. Oh, I wish I could have taken that class (or at least known about it ahead of time)!
The Chronicle of Higher Education ran this piece about the film festival on the 15th of April, and the unique in-class assignment is sure to get broader attention in the education and film community at large.
Listen to Negar talk about the festival (courtesy D21-Projektblog).
[Now.... how can I apply this to my own classes?? hmmm...]
Photography: A Very Short Introduction
Words Without Pictures (Aperture, 2010)
Short Track, by Jake Mendel
Bird Watching, by Paula McCartney