Most students walk away from a typical film courses with a better knowledge of the medium’s history and an impressive vocabulary. However such a standard, superficial approach to cinema can leave the viewer unsatisfied, missing out on the rich, powerful qualities of the art form. Professor and filmmaker Chitra Neogy asks more of her students in her class "Film as a Transformative Process" at New York University. Challenging them with difficult foreign films such as Andrei Tarkovsky's "The Sacrifice" or Theodoros Angelopoulos's "Landscape in the Mist," Neogy creates an environment in the classroom that takes students into, what she calls, a deeper language of themselves. "It’s really transformative in the sense that the kinds of films I choose to show are reflective of another language," Neogy told Indiewire. "It’s very intimate, the atmosphere, and intimidating in the sense that the films act as mirrors upon the self.
- 5/20/2013
- by Erin Whitney
- Indiewire
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