Critical Conversations: bridging pathways forward to greater understanding and creative solutions.

The moving image is everywhere and it shapes perception in powerful ways. With access to high-end equipment and outstanding faculty, you will learn to tell stories in your own way, with clarity and conceptual rigor.

student film shoot, with lighting and director speaking to photography director and subject

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Programs

Two students stand on a road with a snowy field expanse around them. They are handling video and sound capturing equipment.
Britney Bautista and Malcolm Terry on Caroline Lathrop's senior thesis shoot, Population: 11

As a film/video department situated within an art school, you will get a foundation in seeing, thinking, and making at Pratt that you won’t find at many film schools.

Our students make narrative, documentary, and experimental work starting in their first semester. They are encouraged to take creative risks, push the medium, and to innovate in the field. You will leave our program a total filmmaker, well-versed in every aspect of filmmaking from cinematography and screenwriting to producing and editing.  We believe this makes for stronger filmmakers and it means that our students are more flexible in the job market upon graduation, able to do just about anything.