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Item It's all for naught : avant-garde cinema, regional history, and the South(2015-05) Malin, Sean Lowel; Frick, Caroline; Hutchison, ColemanAt the margins of cinema history are films that defy traditional strategies of production, narrative, and aesthetics. These "experimental" works are the subjects of their own histories concomitant to those in "mainstream" film studies. Media scholarship by the likes of David James and P. Adams Sitney has attempted to implement the avant-garde into wider filmmaking narratives. But histories and critical studies alike widely marginalize experimental works made outside of expected cosmopolitan centers, particularly when fringe films and their makers hail from the American South. This project argues that the near-elimination of the region's avant-gardists from media history prevents works of cultural import from disseminating into the national narrative. Through an interdisciplinary study of local experimental communities, with direct focus on New Orleans, it also contends that recovering these works is essential to more inclusive and thus emancipatory regional media narratives. The thesis concludes with an original taxonomy of archives and interviews for future critical Southern media scholarship.Item You and me are stitched(2011-05) Liu, Ying, 1984-; Shea, Andrew Brendan; Ramirez-Berg, Charles; Lewis, Anne; Smith, MichaelMy thesis film for the Master of Fine Arts is a twelve-minute experimental film entitled You and me are stitched. It follows three friends, Rosine, Sandy and Travis. It is a film that thinks around their curious triangle. This report is an account of the evolution of its filmmaking concept and process, from the initial idea through the finished film. The finished film bears little similarity to the original intent, so I pay particular attention to discussing conceptual breakthrough and post-production discoveries in this report.