Film has become increasingly important in the way we express ourselves, personally and professionally. But film entails a specific way of producing and transmitting truth and knowledge about the social world. In the minor Visual Evidence you will learn by analyzing and making films how this process of knowledge production works and how film acts as evidence in different disciplines.
In this interdisciplinary minor, you will learn to combine practical audiovisual skills for filmmaking with visual theories in anthropology, law, and theology to become a critical audiovisual consumer and audiovisual creator. Throughout the minor, we will watch and examine different forms of documentaries about urgent societal topics, and at the end you will collectively produce a research-driven documentary with the assistance of filmmakers and qualified staff. In this way, you will learn how audiovisual techniques, such as visual framing, storytelling, editing styles, the use of sound and silence, play an important role in the production of truth and knowledge in various professional arenas as broad as a courthouse, TikTok, a film festival, and academia.