This course introduces a new method in content research, storytelling and filmmaking. This course first introduces Annette Kuhn's "memory work" to the students, looking at visual evidence of their personal memories and connecting them to history or possibly traumatic stories from various sources. They will then be introduced to Derrida's Hauntology and use it as method telling and retelling the stories using his concepts, especially on "disjointed time", "work of mourning" and "specters". At the end of the course, students are expected to produce film and video works of various styles informed by the concepts mentioned.

This course focuses on developing student's sensitivity on feeling cinema, and to utilize this sensitivity to develop content for international cinema audiences. Bridging theories and filmmaking practices, this course demonstrates how theories and related philosophical thinking can push the boundary of filmmaking, and how filmmakers nowadays envision the future form, structure and content of storytelling.

This is a hybrid course with a mix of practice, theory as method, and film appreciation. Students will be benefited from both workshops, lectures and screenings, where technical knowledge will be delivered in conjunction with theories and aesthetics. Through the practice~based assignments, students will be able to advance their storytelling skill and begin to explore and build up their personal style.