FACULTY & STAFF
|
Professor Ross Morin, a graduate of Connecticut College, has returned as a professor of film production and chair of the Department of Film Studies. He earned his M.F.A. in film and video production at Ohio University, where he won the University's Graduate Associate Outstanding Teaching Award. He is the recipient of the University Film and Video Association's Award of Teaching Excellence for Senior Faculty, Connecticut College's highest teaching honor, the John S. King Memorial Teaching Award, and the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Faculty Mentor Award. In 2019, he was the project advisor for the film that won Connecticut College's Oakes and Louise Ames Prize for Outstanding Honors Study.
Professor Morin is an award-winning independent filmmaker, writer, editor and cinematographer. His recently acclaimed work includes the award-winning feature horror film A Wheel out of Kilter (2015) and internationally recognized short films A Peculiar Thud (2016) and Ad Noctum (2010). You can read more about him and his work on his website RossMorinFilm. Morin is the co-founder of Kiltered Productions. Professor Morin teaches FLM 210: Fundamentals of Motion Picture Production, FLM 220: Documentary Theory and Production, FLM 238: Screenwriting, FLM 310: Ideological Representation in Motion Picture Production, FLM 320: Experimental Film: History and Practice, and FLM 410: Advanced Production Seminar. He believes in teaching film production as applied social activism, with a strong emphasis on the ethical responsibility of the media maker. He spends his free time mountain biking, homebrewing, and reading Stephen King novels in his garden. |
|
Dr. Nina Martin ("Dr. M.") teaches Introduction to Film Studies: How to Read a Film and Studies in Authorship: Women Directors, among others. Dr. Martin serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Film and Video and The Velvet Light Trap. She has served as referee for Cinema Journal, Sexualities, and Sexuality and Culture. She is the author of Sexy Thrills: Undressing the Erotic Thriller. She previously taught at Ithaca College, Northwestern University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Emory University. |
|
|
Noah Schamus (they/them) is an educator and filmmaker of both documentary and narrative films. They teach Tools of Motion Picture Production, Fundamentals of Motion Picture Production, and Screenwriting.
Their first feature Summer Solstice screened at film festivals across the United States and Europe. The film received a New York Times Critics Pick. Their most recent hybrid documentary short, The Script was co-directed with Brit Fryer, and produced by Multitude Films as a part of their Queer Futures series, which was supported by Chicken & Egg Pictures and the Ford Foundation. The film can currently be seen online on The New Yorker and The Criterion Channel. Noah previously taught at Carleton College and Hunter College. |
|
Over Su Friedrich’s prolific career of twenty-five 16mm films and digital videos, she has displayed a commitment to mining the depths of personal experience and societal issues. Her ardent engagement with feminist and LGBTQ politics is matched by her passion for challenging the conventions of the cinematic medium. Friedrich’s work is screened widely around the world, featured in prominent film festivals and institutions, and has been included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Royal Film Archives in Belgium, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the National Library of Australia. In 2016, her autobiographical film Sink or Swim (1990) was selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Friedrich is Professor Emerita of Visual Art at Princeton University, where she taught film production since 1998. At Connecticut College, she is teaching FLM 395C: Constructing the Documentary in the Fall 2024 semester |
|
|
Greg Surman is the Film Studies Technician and has been with Connecticut College since 2006. He manages the Equipment Room, maintains all of the equipment and facilities for the Department, and tutors students on equipment usage. Greg received his BFA with a Minor in Art History from Hartford Art School, University of Hartford where he studied Media Arts, sculpture and ceramics. Greg has worked and taught at the Hartford Art School and worked for Real Art Ways as well as the Cartin Collection. He prides himself on being able to build or fix almost anything, and when not on campus, he can be found in his home shop/studio doing just that. |