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Susanne Schwibs

Senior Lecturer

Contact Information

Office:
RTV 306
Office Hours:
Tuesday 1:30-4:00PM & by appointment
Email:
sschwibs@indiana.edu
Phone:
812-855-2217

Research and Creative Interests

  • filmmaking
  • visual storytelling
  • Documentary
  • experimental
  • 16mm & super-8 film

Biography

I teach documentary, experimental, and 16mm filmmaking.  In collaboration with the Jacobs School of Music, I organize the annual Double Exposure project: teams of student filmmakers and student composers prepare short films that are screened at the IU Cinema with live music accompaniment.

As a filmmaker, I specialize in documentaries dealing with the arts, music, history and the American landscape.  My work can be seen on public television and a number of them are distributed nationally through PBS, APT or Netflix and have won Regional Emmys and CINE Golden Eagles.  Some of my long-form docs are: Along the Wabash (2016), Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution (2015), Wilderness Plots in Concert (2011), Harp Dreams: Inside the USA International Harp Competition (2010), Wilderness Plots: Songs and Stories of the Prairie (2008), American Horizons: The Photographs of Art Sinsabaugh (2008), Beaux Arts at 50 (2005), Spanning Time: America’s Covered Bridges (2004), No Compromise: Lessons in Feminist Art with Judy Chicago (2002), and Sugarplum Dreams: Staging the Nutcracker Ballet (2001).

Courses:

  • P360/C560 16mm Motion Picture Production
  • P433 Developing the Documentary
  • P434 Documentary Production
  • P435 Documentary Filmmaking—Theory and Practice
  • P438/C638 Experiments with the Film Camera
  • P460/C660 Advanced Production—Double Exposure

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