Screenwriting: Poetic Thinking in Film

How Movies Are Poetic Thinking

$65, $45 Class and Room members, $25 students

space is limited.

Email us tishpatrick@gmail.com to register then please bring cash or check made out to The Editing Co. or your credit card.

  Of all the artistic media, film and poetry are most dream-like. Dreams are chains of associations that always "feel" to the dreamer as if they are, in some strange way, necessary. In film, one image dissolves upon another and it's up to the viewer to find the necessity; in poetry, one word dissolves upon another. In this seminar, we'll look at the "necessities" that creative filmmakers use to expand our consciousnesses---like dreaming---like great poems, and like the best writers in any genre.

Possible films we will view:  Tree of Life, North by Northwest, Fightclub, I Am Love, Woman of the Dunes, Pan's Labyrinth, Ugetsu, Koyaanisqatsi.