Frank Sanna, MFA

Education

BA,Graphic Design, Sheridian College / MFA, Studio Arts: Film Production, Concordia University

Courses

As a teacher my primary goal is to help students discover and better understand their 'voice' as a unique and valid perspective in dialogue with the world.

In creative practice, I work with traditional and hybrid forms of documentary and fiction filmmaking, exploring research interests in anthropology and philosophy, especially with regards to the phenomena of myth. My research has evolved considering, amongst others, the work of Gaston Bachelard, Ernesto Grassi, Michael Polanyi, and Ursula Le Guin, respecting how each maintains the validity of subjectivity in their worldviews. In more practical ways, my academic engagement has been informed by an extensive experience in the film and television Art Department, working as Art Director, Graphic Designer, and in various other roles.

At heart, my art and films respond to what I feel is a poetical framework of knowing and being  - looking into the ways in which we search for, discover, and create meaning out of shared embodied experience. In this light, I am trying to express an emotional truth about our evolving need for structure, orientation, and connection. As an artist-researcher, I place value on the reality and necessity of feelings while striving to bridge the artificial gap between Art and Science that has come, and continues, to define our 'modern' sensibilities.