For the UHI Fall 2019 graduate seminar and methods course, students produced a series of experimental documentary films investigating each of Los Angeles’ ‘seven ecologies’. Grounded by theoretical perspectives on commoning, borders, and the public sphere, students located a particular set of spaces, settings, situations, or conditions in each ecology and laid bare their implications for social and spatial justice through the medium of film. Guided by video instructor Jesse Lerner, students made creative use of narration, imagery, and formal filmic qualities that reflect the aesthetics, and inherent problematics, of each ecology.
