Andrew Gingerich

Filmmaker/Educator

About

Andrew Gin­gerich is a film­mak­er whose work explores notions of fam­i­ly, dis­so­ci­at­ed iden­ti­ties, region­al alle­giances, and the bound­aries of fic­tion. He lives and teach­es in Michi­gan’s Upper Peninsula.

Junk drawer camera rigs

  • 9 min­utes – HD Video for online course – Color
  • My role: Instructor

A crash course in life with­out a tripod.

I made this video for my Film 118 stu­dents at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wisconsin–Milwaukee when COVID-19 iso­la­tion mea­sures drove the course online-only. My stu­dents lost access to Uni­ver­si­ty equip­ment halfway through the semes­ter, which meant that many of them had to com­plete the course using only a smart­phone and with­out the aid of a tri­pod. I put togeth­er this video to give them so ideas about how to inven­tive­ly mar­shal the lim­it­ed tools avail­able to them.