Jeffrey Skoller is a filmmaker and writer. He teaches film/video production and courses on the histories and theories of experimental/avant-garde film and video art, documentary/non-fiction film, Third Cinema, activist and other counter-media practices. “In research and image-making, I explore relationships between film and contemporary art, the radical aesthetics and praxis of the political avant-garde; representations of history and time in experimental film and video, and contemporary cinematic hybrids such as the essay film, experimental documentary, animated documentary and expanded cinemas.”
Courses taught include: Documentary film; Avant-garde film; Committed Cinema: Film/Media, Art and Social Change; The Image of Time: Cinematic Temporalities, From History To Entropy: Making History n Cinema; Political Modernism and Beyond: Radical Formalism in Film and New Media, “Mediatized War: Vision, Technology and the Spectacle of Violence in Contemporary Non-Fiction Media; Graduate Production Seminar in Video and Moving Image Media Production; Documentary Film Production
Skoller’s films have been exhibited in museums, universities and festivals internationally. Screenings and exhibitions include: The Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Portland Art Museum, OR; The Gene Siskel Film Center, Art Institute of Chicago, The SF Cinematheque; Museum of the Moving Image, NY; JP Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Whitney Museum, NY; P.S. 1, NY; Anthology Film Archives, NY; Flaherty Film Seminar, NY; Arsenal Kino, Berlin; Mannheim Film Festival, Germany; The Latin American Film Festival, Havana; National Film Theatre, London. His essays and articles on experimental film and video have appeared in Film Quarterly; Discourse; Afterimage; Cinematograph; New Art Examiner, Art Practical among others. Skoller was part of the founding faculty of the Dept. of Film/Video/New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was Director of the Cinema and Media Studies Program at Wellesley College.
Jeffrey was an ARC Fellow in Spring of 2009 and 2013 – he was chosen in the Faculty category.