An individual, expressive use of the film and video medium is emphasized in the Film/Video program. Each year, 28 students learn all aspects of creative film and digital-video production, from experimental to pre-cinema history. They view over fifty exemplary films and videos, and attend lectures and presentations by visiting artists working in the field. The program is very learning-intensive, and ideal for self-starters who want to challenge both themselves and the boundaries of film and video production while developing their own critical thinking and artistic visions. The program is structured to resemble a collegiate BFA course that students typically experience at elite university and art school film programs.

Each Monday through Thursday, students move between classes in Super 8 Film Production, Digital Video Production, and Cinema History/Theory. On Fridays and Saturdays, students take a Camera-less 16mm Film Production class, learning techniques of filmmaking without the use of a camera. There are also regularly scheduled evening screenings, including a Thursday night, outdoor, Works-in-Progress showcase, where students can screen for the InnerSpark community the films and videos that they created in class.

This class introduces students to independent video production techniques including narrative, personal documentary and various forms of Video Art. Each Student receives hands-on training with professional cameras and digital editing programs. Students use these tools to complete three videos in the course of the summer, including a short personal work, an experimental piece, and an open-ended final project.

This class covers all aspects of producing a short Super 8 film, from conception through storyboarding, cinematography and editing. Students learn the technical aspects of filmmaking, including skills such as exposure, film speed, focal length, and the aesthetics of cinema, while viewing work by various independent producers working in Super 8. Students complete three individual creative projects and a group project.

This class instructs students in the use of 16mm found-film collage, direct animation, hand processing, and other camera-less film techniques. It develops each student's fundamental understanding of visual storytelling through motion, color, and montage. The rich cinematic tradition of these techniques is explored through screenings of the works of contemporary film artists such as Stan Brakhage and Bruce Conner.

Students are exposed to a range of important films from many different movements and genres ranging from the Hollywood musical to Neo-Realism. Guest speakers in this class have included directors Allison Anders (Mi Vida Loca), Thom Andersen (Los Angeles Plays Itself), Penelope Spheeris (Wayne's World and Suburbia), Sam Green (The Weather Underground), Greg Harrison (Groove), Adrian Belic (Genghis Blues), Ondi Timoner (DIG!), Jeff Feuerzeig (The Devil and Daniel Johnston) and noted experimental filmmakers Greta Snider, Thad Povey and Marnie Webber.

The program also includes field trips that in the past have included tours of Paramount Pictures Studios, and visits to prop houses, live action location shoots, and public screenings of student works at art houses in the Los Angeles area.

Lee Lynch chairs the Film and Video Program. He is an award-winning filmmaker and conceptual artist who makes feature length narrative and documentary films, and performances. His work has shown nationally at such festivals as Sundance, Tribeca, AFI, Full Frame, The Chicago Underground and The New York Underground Film Festival. He has shown internationally at Rotterdam, The Viennale, and the Marseille Documentary Film Festival. In Los Angeles, he has performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Armand Hammer Museum. He recently was the recipient of a California Arts Council grant and a California Humanities grant. During the regular school year he teaches at The Echo Park Film Center, a non-profit media arts center and micro-cinema in Los Angeles. Mr. Lynch received his BFA from the School of Film at California Institute of the Arts, and his MFA from the University of Southern California. He is also an InnerSpark alumnus.

Camera-less Film Production and Cinema History & Theory instructor Brigid McCaffrey received her MFA from the School of Film at California Institute of the Arts. She makes 16mm documentary films about subjects who appear to be misplaced and/or displaced in the world and the regions they encounter. Featuring Sikhs in the California desert, young female truck drivers on the American interstate, and nuns as riverboat captains, her films have been shown in Rotterdam, Portland, Lisbon, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.

Digital Video Instructor Mike Ott received both his BFA and MFA in filmmaking at Cal Arts, where he studied under Thom Anderson. He has directed music videos for such bands as Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Blood Brothers, and more recently for The Cave Singers. Mike’s films have premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival, South by Southwest and internationally at a number of festivals including the Viennale.

In addition to the three main instructors, three undergraduate TA's complete the Film/Video faculty.