Guerrilla Video Production
Doug Garth Williams
Class #29: Saturdays, March 24, 31, & April 7, 11am-4pm
Tuition $250
Image: Doug Garth Williams, Still from This Video Sells Itself, 2010
This class will expose students to the complete video production processes including composition, camera movements, lighting and audio techniques, while focusing on how to modify traditional production techniques so that they can be done guerilla style with a very small crew (as small as one) on a very low budget. Screenings, discussions, hands on training, and Do-It-Yourself techniques will form a strong foundation from which students will build their own work.
Doug Garth Williams makes work that explores perception and the apparent ease with which it can be altered. These investigations take the form of videos, interactive installations, and public interventions. Often using himself as a subject, they tend towards the reflexive, humorous and uncanny. His work is made with the hope of playfully confounding expectations and eliciting those tenuous unguarded moments of questioning. Over the last year Doug has received a Franklin Furnace Fund Award, a Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship, the Herringer Family Award for Excellence in Art, won two jury prizes at festivals, served sporadically as a Visiting Adjunct for Experimental Video at Mills College and had 13 different pieces shown in more than 18 exhibitions and screenings in galleries, museums, and festivals around the world. This has included a two person show at Swarm Gallery in Oakland, California and solo shows at The Royal Nonesuch Gallery in Oakland, California and at Chashama Windows space in New York, in conjunction with the Franklin Furnace Fund and National Endowment for the Arts. www.dougisfamous.com