Students will explore autobiography as a filmmaking genre and practice, including experimental, fictionalized, and documentary forms, and emphasizing hybrid forms incorporating combinations of the above approaches. Readings and screenings of work by a range of filmmakers will provide a theoretical context for production work. As a point of departure, the course investigates strategies of (self) representation, reenactment, performance, portraiture, memoir, confession, and diaristic film. This course will be conducted in a workshop / seminar format, and combines both film studies and production. All students enrolled in this course will be expected to contribute actively to both theoretical and creative aspects of the course, participating in discussions of readings and screenings as well as in critique of student work. Students will complete three short video projects as well as keep an ongoing video diary. This is an intermediate / advanced course, and as such there is no formal technical instruction in this course. It is expected that students are already comfortable with basic shooting using DV camcorders and nonlinear editing with Final Cut Pro. While technical tutorials may be available outside of class on request, the course assumes basic knowledge of production and postproduction technologies.