Kurt Lancaster  

 

Assistant Professor of Digital Media 
School of Communication, Room 367
928-523-1644
Kurt.Lancaster@nau.edu 
kurtlancaster.com  

Research and teaching interests

Kurt Lancaster is a digital filmmaker, shooting both documentaries and short fiction screened at national and international festivals.

His research includes examining and experimenting ways in which fiction and documentary storytelling on the web can be designed to create compelling narrative experiences—as rich and diverse as films and novels. As part of this research, he also explores new ways to apply digital storytelling to online journalism.

In addition, Kurt also consults for the Pulitzer prize winning international newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor—training their reporters on video journalism for the web.

Kurt has taught at Fort Lewis College, MIT, and NYU.

Courses offered

COM 399 Interactive Storytelling
EMF 129 Intro to Audio/Visual Storytelling

Representative research and creative activity

Digital Films & Web Stories

Documentary

Folding Paper Cranes
Dreams from a Red Planet
Skins Anatomy: The making of a scene
Beijing Portrait: Tian Tan, The Temple of Heaven
Robert Wilson’s still lives in motion (barely) 

Fiction

The Death of September
The Kitchen
The Diamond in the Cellar

Books

Building a Home Movie Studio & Getting Your Films Online. Co-authored with Cynthia Conti. Billboard Books (an imprint of Watson-Guptill Publications), 2002.

Interacting with Babylon 5: Fan Performances in a Media Universe. Foreword by Henry Jenkins. University of Texas Press, 2001.

Performing the Force: Essays on Immersion into Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Environments. Co-edited with Tom Mikotowicz. McFarland, 2001.

Warlocks and Warpdrive: Contemporary Fantasy Entertainments with Interactive and Virtual Environments. Foreword by Brooks McNamara, NYU. McFarland, 1999.

Links of interest

Digital Cinema Society
International Documentary Association
The Digital Journalist

Education

PhD, Performance Studies, New York University, 1999
MA, Theater, University of Maine, Orono, 1991
BA, English, Principia College, 1989