Calling the Shots

For 5 weeks this spring, join Film Professor Ingrid Stobbe as the Coolidge Corner Theatre explores womens' voices at the intersection of direction and cinematography across five amazing films. 

Students will engage with story and direction from a female perspective, and, most importantly, the role of women cinematographers in providing meaning to these varied and nuanced stories. Seminars begin each three-hour session, followed by film screenings in one of our main moviehouses, and then discussion in the ECEC.

5 Wednesdays, March 4 to April 1, 6:45 to approx. 9:45 PM. Class length may vary due to film runtimes. 

Classes are only available for purchase as a package, not as individual sessions. 

About Ingrid Stobbe: 

Ingrid Stobbe is an Associate Professor of Digital Filmmaking at Lesley University's College of Art + Design and a Visual Media Artist whose work includes both narrative and experimental pieces. Ingrid's experimental films have been awarded, screened, and exhibited nationally and internationally. Currently, she is in production on The Dog Star, an autobiographical examination of the effects of time and location on adult perceptions of self amidst invisible disability. 

Co-authored with William Pace, her recent book The Filmmaker's Guide to Creatively Embracing Limitations featured among the Best of Literary Boston 2023 (Grubstreet). Her upcoming book, The Camera is You: Medium, Identity, and the Moving Image in Personal Filmmaking, investigates the complex record of the moving image by examining historical and contemporary instances in which genres, persons, and systems were pushed forward while others were held back (Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2025). She is also an advisor to the board of Women in Film & Video New England and an editorial board member of the Journal of Film & Video.