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Professor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Minda<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

MFA, Department of Live Action in the School of Film\/Video, California Institute of the Arts
B.A., Interdisciplinary Arts (Creative Writing, Media Arts, Classics), University of Arizona<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Office: UW2-318
Phone: 425-352-3412
Email: mindam@uw.edu<\/a>
Mailing Box: 358530, 18115 Campus Way NE, Bothell, WA 98011-8246<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As an educator and filmmaker my teaching goals are to help students produce strong content, encourage them to share their ideas in an innovative form, and create an atmosphere that facilitates engagement. I became a teacher for the same reasons I became a filmmaker; to help to make sure different perspectives surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My teaching philosophy is based on my experience as an artist. I encourage students to take a personal approach in their creative and intellectual activity by working with what they know best; themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of the excitement of being a teacher is creating a classroom in which students feel comfortable expressing their views and backgrounds. I feel honored to have the opportunity to help students to voice their unique experiences and perspectives through media that is accessible to a wider audience. I am devoted to helping students work through issues concerning identity and connections to social and political structures that shape their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent Courses Taught<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BISMCS 472 The Essay Film
BISMCS 472 Black Mirror
BISMCS 343 The City as Character
BIS 341 Gender in Film
BIS 313 Transnational Cinema
BISIA 208 Experimenting Through the Arts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research\/Scholarship<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My creative activity and research stems from my position as a maker of experimental documentary and narrative films and videos. My work explores the underpinnings and disparities of social class.  My films began as a way to understand my life experiences. For me, making films is a way of asserting a truth I grew up with that I did not see reflected in contemporary media. I start with what I know and build from there. My work is intended to inspire the viewer to look beyond dominant histories and call for more multi-vocal approaches to history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last two completed projects have been hybrid films that include experimental, fiction, and non-fiction elements. In Free Land<\/em> (2009) I have actors re-enact actual transcripts from the Dawes Commission along with fictional stories I wrote to represent the point of view and narrative arc of my Cherokee ancestors, and in The Long Distance Operator <\/em>(2012) I featured war veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq to reenact their combat experience on the ground and 7000 miles away. I include in the screens of the drone pilot\u2019s scenes from WikiLeaks footage with other military aerial war footage to collapse the distance Americans have towards the on-going effects of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are three distinct approaches that I use across my body of work. Firstly, I try to unsettle history by re-crafting histories we think are fixed. Secondly, I disrupt notions of absolute truth by combining images and sounds to complicate singular meanings. Lastly, I interweave personal, government, and entertainment media documents to illuminate their connections between personal and institutional histories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Films and Screenings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Distribution<\/h3>\n\n\n\n