Film Making: MIT & Harvard’s Top Computer Scientists

The world around us is filled with stories, all of them real. In this workshop, we will look at the role of story telling in documentary and non-fiction image and sound-making. There are many different ways to tell the stories of our everyday realities, the things and places we take for granted and don’t often think about. We will look at and listen to various examples of documentary works and analyze how each of them tells a story. Then students will use their imagination and observations to craft compelling stories about the apparently banal spaces we all inhabit and/or pass through.

Ryan Tebo

Ryan Tebo was born in Buffalo, NY and is an artist and teacher working with film, video, sound, new media and photography, as well as being a free-improvising musician. He just finished a year-long Fulbright grant in Stockholm, Sweden. While there, Ryan worked on his documentary film, Towards Equality, about American expatriates who moved to Sweden in the 1960′s – 1970′s, exploring the perception of Sweden as a utopian society. During the year he also researched Swedish experimental film and video at the Filmform archive. This research was focused on works from the 1960’s – 70’s and the connections between radical aesthetic and political expressions. The year previous to that Ryan was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Massachusetts College of Art, teaching documentary and experimental filmmaking.
Currently, Ryan divides his time between Cambridge and Stockholm, where he has recently founded Lysa Media Production and Education. In Swedish, “lysa” means, “to shine” or “to proclaim.”