Interests

Foundational digital and analog film production and post-production techniques, experimental filmmaking, observational documentary, intermedia arts.

Biography

Associate Professor R. William Rowley had a sabbatical leave for Spring 2009 and was able dedicate a concentrated effort to a new long-term ongoing project under the working title Time in the Discourse of Landscape Imagery. In April 2009, he received a Faculty Seed Grant from SIUC in support of this project. He has been working at sites in the immediate surrounding region producing both large format still photo landscape images using an 8x10 camera and 5-minute High Definition video landscape images with sound.

The courses Professor Rowley has taught recently include: CP376 Film Production 2, our intermediate film production course; CP452 Screenwriting, an introduction to feature-length scriptwriting; CP454 Animated Film Production, a course introducing techniques the Oxberry animation stand; and MCMA 543 Media Arts Studio Seminar: Time in the Discourse of Landscape Imagery, a summer intersession graduate level production course.