University of Groningen

MA in Arts & Culture: Film and Contemporary Audiovisual Media

Are you fascinated by the emotional and cognitive effects of films? Do you love studying documentaries and the contributions cinema can make to discussions of climate change?

Then the Master’s track ‘Film and Contemporary Audiovisual Media’ is the right one for you. Within a year you can acquire a Master’s degree from one of the Top 100 universities in the world—and you will do so in the city with the youngest population in the Netherlands. An internship in film, television or other media is part of the program as well.

In ‘Film and Contemporary Audiovisual Media’ you will work closely with our international faculty, who will initiate you into the latest theoretical debates in film and media studies. You will learn to work with state-of-the-art approaches such as phenomenology, film-cognitivism, ecocriticism, film philosophy, digital film forensics, and experimental media archaeology.

Our track is unique in its combination of research-driven seminars and the extensive networks on offer for the internship. With an internationally recognized faculty and well-established connections to film and media institutions, this program will be attractive to students who want to deepen their knowledge of film and pursue a career in the arts and media sector.

Why study this programme in Groningen?

• stimulating international student environment with a lively cinema-going culture;
• theoretically strong department working on the latest developments in audiovisual culture;
• wide range of courses on cognitive film theory, film-phenomenology, media-archaeology, narratology and documentary theory;
• team of motivated international staff members collaborating across national and disciplinary boundaries;
• Film Archive & Media Archaeology Lab (embedded in the University) with links to international networks of film archives, museums and media labs.