Mara Alper

Welcome!

Glad to meet you here in cyperspace -- hope we meet in person soon.

For more information about me and the work I do, please visit my web site at www.MaraAlper.com that is linked to this site.

I've been teaching in the Television-Radio Department at Ithaca College for eight years. My specialities are motion graphics/animation and video field production, where we shoot on location making documentaries, dramas, comedies and experimental approaches to media.

My own work takes the form of documentaries, video art and gallery installations. When you visit my web site, you can find out more. My latest documentary "Forgiveness" is a 28 min. program that explores this choice from a psychological and philosophical perspective. Visit http://www.maraalper.com/doc_forgiveness_2.html to learn more about it.

You can check out the syllabi for the courses I teach in our department web site at http://departments.ithaca.edu/tvr/se: Silent Echoes (experimental dance video, 1990), Stories No One Wants To Hear (documentary, 1993), Maria Mitchell: Explorer of the Stars (documentary, 1993), Moving On (experimental video, 1996), Close to the Bone (video-sound installation, 1999), To Erzulie (experimental video, 2002), Lost Voices (video-sound installation, 2002) and Forgiveness (documentary, 2004), and Toro (video-sound installation, 2005).

B.A.  Harpur College, SUNY Binghamton     Theater/English Major     Magna Cum Laude  

M.A.  New York University    Educational Theater Major    Summa Cum Laude