The Advanced Production Pool is a group of undergraduate Cinema majors who have completed the intermediate (foundation) level of the Cinema Major curriculum and who are eligible to take Advanced Production courses. You must be in the Advanced Production Pool in order to take Advanced Production Courses in the Cinema Department. For more information on the prerequisites, please see a Cinema Advisor or Scott Boswell, the Cinema Production Coordinator.

Monday, October 12, 2009:
STEP ONE Application ONLINE. Link to it on the Cinema website (cinema.sfsu.edu) under the News Feed. This step is an eligibility check for students who are new to the Pool. Students already accepted into the Pool do not need to apply again.

MA & MFA applications will be ready OCTOBER 15, 2009. They will be very similar to last year's applications. In the meantime, gather letters of recommendation, your writing sample, video sample (MFA applicants), and unofficial transcripts.

Undergraduate and graduate independent study petitions are now available for download. Petitions must be on file in the Cinema Department office before the ADD/DROP deadline.

Petition for Internship

• CINE 692 Petition for Internship (PDF)
• CINE 765 Petition for Internship (PDF)

Undergraduate Independent Study forms

• CINE 690 Petition for Course by Production Practice (PDF)
• CINE 695 Petition for Independent Critical Studies (PDF)
• CINE 699 Petition for Course by Special Study (PDF)

Graduate Independent Study forms

• CINE 852 Petition for Directed Experience (PDF)
• CINE 894 Petition for Course by Special Study (PDF)
• CINE 897 Petition for Research Project in Film (PDF)
• CINE 898 Petition for Master's Thesis (PDF)
• CINE 899 Petition for Course by Special Study (PDF)

MiniCine 2.0

Mobile movies you can twitter to
Presented by CINE 623 (Cinema as an Online Medium) class

Everything is being downsized these days, cinema included. Members of this semester’s “Cinema as an Online Medium” (CINE 623) class are not only creating original movies designed for small screens; they’ve also set up a way for viewers to “tweet” mini-reviews of the movies from computers or cell phones.

Breaking Barriers: Borders and Beyond Liminality in Cinematic Media

San Francisco State University
October 14–15, 2009
Plenary Sessions
Cinema Studies Graduate Student Association
Deadline for submissions is July17th, 2009.

Boundaries, borders, and limits signify separation between spaces—physical, conceptual, and otherwise. Cinema as a medium exemplifies and embodies resistance to boundaries. Since its advent film form has incessantly flirted with what lies beyond its porous borders traversing boundaries between narrative and non-narrative, documentary and fiction, art and science, humanism and exploitation.

As liminality connotes limits, how are these limits crossed and what are the results? In what ways might the category of liminality be productive to critical discourse and the creative enterprise? How are traditional cinema forms being challenged by blurred and traversed boundaries? What are discursive, spatial, temporal, sexual, cultural, political, aesthetic, metaphysical, ethical, and epistemological expressions of liminality within and related to cinema? How can curation and archival work cultivate and historicize liminality? How is film scholarship done from liminality?

We welcome submissions for individual presentations as well as panel sections as we seek to explore not only liminal cinematic spaces, but more importantly, theories, histories, criticisms and practices that refuse to be contained, even within those spaces.