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Assigned Films and TV

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Helpful Information

  • a brief list of basic film criticism terminology here
  • a bit more in-depth one here
  • an even more in-depth one here’s

Required Short Film and TV Episodes

  • Chris Marker, La Jetée (France, 1962; 28m) on digital reserve here
  • R. Bare and D. Knight, To Serve Man [S3E24 of The Twilight Zone] (USA, 1962; 24m) BB
  • Wanuri Kahiu, Pumzi (Kenya, 2009; 23m) Youtube
  • Lisa Jackson, The Visit (Anishinaabe, 2009; 4m) here
  • Giacomo Cimini, The City in the Sky (Italy-England, 2009; 27 mins) 
  • Kim Jee-woon The Heavenly Creature in Doomsday Book (Korea, 2012; 30mins) on digital reserve
  • Nanobah Becker, The 6th World (Navajo, 2012; 15m) Youtube
  • Kibwe Tavares, Robots of Brixton (England, 2012; 5m) Youtube
  • Don Hertzfeldt, World of Tomorrow 1, 2, & 3 (USA, 2015-2020; 16-20m each) BB
  • Antoine Caëcke & Hélène Jeudy, Anvil (Japan/Belgium, 2017) Vimeo
  • Helen Haig-Brown, The Cave (Tsilhqot’in, 2018) Youtube
  • Robert Valley, Zima Blue [Episode 14 of Love, Death, and Robots] (Canada, 2019;10m) Netflix and BB

Recommended (not Required) Film and TV

Feature-length films

These are not required, but if you can watch one or more during the semester, great!

  • Fritz Lang, Metropolis (Germany, 1927; 3h 30m)
  • Ishiro Honda, Godzilla (Japan, 1954; 96m)
  • Mario Bava, Planet of the Vampires (Italy, 1965; 88m)
  • Elio Petri, The 10th Victim (Italy, 1965; 1h 33m)
  • Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris (Russia, 1972; 2h 70m)
  • René Laloux, The Fantastic Planet (France, 1973; 71m)
  • R.W. Fassbinder, World on a Wire (Germany, 1973; 3h)
  • Nicolas Roeg, The Man Who Fell to Earth (UK, 1976; 2h)
  • Andrei Tarkovsky, Stalker (Russia, 1979; 2h 30m)
  • Piotr Kamler, Chronopolis (Poland, 1982; 65m) 
  • Terry Gilliam, Brazil (UK, 1985; 2h)
  • Geoff Murphy, The Quiet Earth (New Zealand, 1985; 91m)
  • Eliseo Subiela, Man Facing Southeast (Argentina, 1986; 1h 45m)
  • Vincent Ward, The Navigator (Australia-New Zealand, 1988; 93m)
  • Mamoru Oshii, Ghost in the Shell (Japan, 1995; 82m)
  • Luc Besson, The Fifth Element (France, 1997; 2h)
  • Gabriele Salvatores, Nirvana (Italy, 1997; 1h 51m)
  • Moon-saeng Kim, Wonderful Days / Sky Blue (Korea, 2003; 1h 26m)
  • Satoshi Kon, Paprika (Japan, 2006; 1h 30min)
  • Konstantin Lopushansky, Ugly Swans (Russia, 2006; 1h 49m)
  • Nacho Vigalondo, Timecrimes (Spain, 2007; 1h 28m)
  • Alex Rivera, Sleep Dealer (Mexico, 2008; 1h 30m)
  • Tarik Saleg, Metropia (Sweden, 2009; 1h 26m)
  • John Cabrera and Cosimo De Tommaso, H+: The Digital Series (world, 2012; 4h)
  • Ari Folman, The Congress (Israel, 2013; 2h)

Short Films

  • Carl E. Rinsch, The Gift (UK, 2010) Vimeo
  • Zaramella, Viaje a Marte (Voyage to Mars) (Argentina, 2012?) Vimeo (click here to visit Zaramella’s website.
  • Factory Fifteen, Gamma (Ukraine and Kazakhstan, 2012) Vimeo
  • Josh Tanner, The Landing (USA, 2013) Vimeo
  • Supamonks Studio, Voyager (France, 2015)
  • The Brother Lynch, The Trial (UK, 2016) Vimeo
  • Giacomo Cimini, The Nostalgist (UK, 2016) Youtube
  • Oats Studios, God: Serengeti (USA, 2017) Youtube
  • Brett Foxwell, Fabricated (USA, 2017; 20m) Vimeo
  • The Brother Lynch, Dust (UK, 2019)
  • Native SF films and trailers, here
  • Optimistic SF short films, Better Worlds. here

TV Series

  • The Twilight Zone (USA,1959-64)
  • Doctor Who (UK, 1963-)
  • The Stranger (Australia, 1964-65)
  • The Outer Limits (USA, 1963-65)
  • Star Trek: Original Series (USA, 1966-69)
  • The Prisoner (England, 1967-68)
  • A come Andromeda (Italy, 1971)
  • Quatermass (England, 1979)
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation (USA, 1987-1994)
  • Star Trek: Voyager (USA, 1995-2001)
  • Star Trek: Enterprise (USA, 2001-2005)
  • Firefly (USA, 2002)
  • Battlestar Galattica (USA, 2004-2009)
  • Steven Hawking’s Sci-Fi Masters (USA, 2007)
  • Black Mirror (England, 2011-)
  • H+ (all over the place, 2012) Youtube
  • Real Humans (Sweden, 2012-)
  • Continuum (Canada, 2012-15)
  • Orphan Black (USA 2013-)
  • Sense8 (USA, 2015-)
  • The Expanse (USA, 2015-)
  • Colony (USA, 2015-)
  • Westworld (USA, 2016-)
  • Dark (Germany, 2017-)
  • Star Trek: Discovery (USA, 2017-)
  • Legion (USA, 2017-2019)
  • Star Trek: Picard (USA, 2020-)
  • Foundation (USA, 2021-)
  • Station 11 (USA, 2021-)