Surreal Cinema
Get ready to break the rules of movie-making! Ditch scripts and traditional structure to explore how you can use filmmaking to make video art. By remixing found footage, you will make music videos, create infinite visual loops, and create movies inspired by your own dreams.
This class is for young artists who are in High School
Studio 1
Thursdays, 5:00-7:30pm
Fall 2026, September 17-November 19
Gallery
Philip Alvy (he/him) is an award-winning filmmaker and arts educator. After graduating from Columbia College Chicago, he moved to Los Angeles and worked in the film industry before pivoting to education. In 2017, Philip lived in Kenya and developed a curriculum for an organization providing opportunities for youth to tell their stories through filmmaking. He completed his MFA focused on media education at Emerson College in 2020. Soon after, Philip founded Arts Integrated, a nonprofit aiming to create tools to inspire art-based learning for educators. Philip has served on the industry advisory board for the National Film Festival for Talented Youth and, in 2023, completed the Teacher Institute fellowship at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
