Ramón Rivera-Moret’s practice engages an experimental approach to storytelling, bringing together a multiplicity of stories and situations through a mixture of narrative strategies. He is interested in ways to construct cinematic stories beyond traditional paradigms—including the abstract, the fragment and the small gesture—within an open-ended, nonlinear narrative.
Rivera-Moret’s films and videos have been exhibited at Anthology Film Archives; Millennium Film Workshop, The Queens Museum of Art, The Birmingham Museum of Art, The American Museum of Natural History, Amherst College, Hampshire College, Chicago Filmmakers and the Ann Arbor, Athens, Chicago Latino and San Francisco Art Institute Film Festivals. He has received grants and awards from The Independent Television Service (ITVS), The National Endowment for the Arts/American Film Institute Regional Fellowships, The Jerome Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts; the Amherst Art Series Fund; the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, the Puerto Rican National Cultural Development Program and the Puerto Rico Film Development Fund.
Before joining the faculty at RISD Rivera-Moret taught at Pratt Institute in New York and Amherst College. He has also lectured at Hampshire College and the Queens Museum of Art.
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
FAV 5100-01 - FILM PRACTICES
LevelUndergraduate
UnitFilm/Animation/Video
Subject Film/Animation/Video
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
FAV 5100-01
FILM PRACTICES
LevelUndergraduate
UnitFilm/Animation/Video
Subject Film/Animation/Video
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: W | 11:20 AM - 4:20 PMInstructor(s): Ramon Rivera-MoretLocation(s): Auditorium, Room 330Enrolled / Capacity: 14Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
In Film Practices, students learn 16mm film processes, skills, and techniques - as a material and conceptual foundation necessary for every time-based practice. Exposure, focus, depth of field, and basic editing strategies are explored as tools for becoming fluent in the language of cinema. Students will build an understanding of the various meanings conveyed by aesthetic decisions regarding composition, movement, and editing. Through individual and group projects, screenings, in-class assignments, and readings, students will explore key concepts in material-based filmmaking to build, expand, and deepen their time-based practice.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $220.00
Deposit: $150.00
Please contact fav@risd.edu for permission to register.
Major Requirement | BFA Film/Animation/Video
FAV 5101-01 - INTERMEDIATE STUDIO: LIVE ACTION
LevelUndergraduate
UnitFilm/Animation/Video
Subject Film/Animation/Video
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
FAV 5101-01
INTERMEDIATE STUDIO: LIVE ACTION
LevelUndergraduate
UnitFilm/Animation/Video
Subject Film/Animation/Video
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: M | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Ramon Rivera-MoretLocation(s): Washington Place, Room 024; Auditorium, Room 330Enrolled / Capacity: 15Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Intermediate Film is a year-long course emphasizing technical production in sync sound film making. Theoretical concerns and cinematic techniques are stressed. We explore concepts of (and the relationships between) narrative, documentary and experimental filmmaking. The first half of the Fall semester, students work in assigned teams, completing a series of short exercises. In the second half of the term, class members individually create their own longer films for final projects. Students screen their work in class at various stages of completion: rushes, rough cuts, and fine cuts. In addition, there are weekly screenings of works by relevant filmmakers. Participation in class discussions is required.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $500.00 Deposit $150.00
Please contact fav@risd.edu for permission to register.
Major Requirement | BFA Film/Animation/Video | Live Action
FAV 5197-01 - SENIOR STUDIO: LIVE ACTION
LevelUndergraduate
UnitFilm/Animation/Video
Subject Film/Animation/Video
Period Fall 2024
Credits 6
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
FAV 5197-01
SENIOR STUDIO: LIVE ACTION
LevelUndergraduate
UnitFilm/Animation/Video
Subject Film/Animation/Video
PeriodFall 2024
Credits6
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: T | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Alexandra Anthony, Ramon Rivera-MoretLocation(s): Auditorium, Room 330Enrolled / Capacity: 20Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This is a year-long course of study, for which the student will complete a 10-20 minute live action work to final professional screening format. Students are free to choose genres and formats in which they want to work. Students have weekly meetings for screenings, guests, and technical workshops, and weekly small-group meetings to discuss their works-in-progress. Fall semester covers pre-production work on narrative projects: developing of scenarios, location scouting, budgets, initial camera tests or initial shooting of non-fiction projects. Visiting consultants come in to instruct in sound recording and cinematography, and guest critics come in November to review project proposals and/or footage.
