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SAIC faculty Frederic Moffet.

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Frédéric Moffet

Professor

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Bio

BFA, 1995, Concordia University, Montreal; MFA, 1998, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Personal Statement

Frédéric Moffet (he/him) is an award-winning French-Canadian filmmaker, artist, educator, editor, and cultural worker. His work explores the slippery territory between history, lived experience, and fantasy. He loves to read, goes to the gym regularly, and sleeps very well. He is often worried about the state of the world. His projects include: The Job, Goddess of Speed, Horsey, Fever Freaks, The Magic Hedge, Adresse Permanente, The Faithful, POSTFACE, Jean Genet in Chicago, and Hard Fat.

Awards

Canada Council for the Arts; Gus Van Sant Award at Ann Arbor Film Festival; Santiago International Short Film Festival; FLEX Film/Video Festival; Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival; Chicago Underground Film Festival, and more.

Exhibitions

Rotterdam Film Festival, National Center for Contemporary Arts (Moscow), Whitechapel Art Gallery (London), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Oberhausen Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, PPOW Gallery (New York), Biennial of Moving Images (Geneva), Kassel Documentary Film Festival, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, and more.

Work

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

1437

Credits

3

Description

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Class Number

2313

Credits

3 - 6

Description

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Class Number

1990

Credits

3 - 6