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With its own history, texts and varied practices/practitioners, essay film has gained widespread traction. The course aims to introduce conceptual and practical underpinnings of essay film as a particular category of film/artistic practice. Through critical texts and different historical and contemporary examples of the essay film, the course addresses methods, concepts and debates associated with this category of film/artistic practice. Most importantly, organised through different exercises, assignments and the making of an essay film, the course centres students' practice. 

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