Integrated Media Arts IMA MFA

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The MFA Program in Integrated Media Arts (IMA) offers advanced studies in nonfiction media making. The IMA Program educates multi-disciplinary, socially engaged media makers in a diverse range of skills across the media landscape. Working with faculty from film, video, emerging media, and journalism backgrounds, students learn to conceptualize, create and distribute innovative, politically and socially engaged expression using contemporary media technologies. ... keep reading about IMA

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Last night, 60 people packed Hunter College’s TV studio for a screening of A Home Worth Fighting For… and we could have kept the conversation going for hours. ✊ IMA alum Natasha Florentino’s documentary about NYCHA residents fighting the demolition of the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses in Chelsea brought together NYCHA residents, activists, urban planners, architects, students, and community members. Thank you to everyone who showed up and showed out. 🏢🏢🏢 #PublicHousing #NYCHA #HousingJustice #Chelsea #HunterCollege IMA DocumentaryFilm AHomeWorthFightingFor NYCHousing CommunityOrganizing
Last night, 60 people packed Hunter College’s TV studio for a screening of A Home Worth Fighting For… and we could have kept the conversation going for hours. ✊ IMA alum Natasha Florentino’s documentary about NYCHA residents fighting the demolition of the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses in Chelsea brought together NYCHA residents, activists, urban planners, architects, students, and community members. Thank you to everyone who showed up and showed out. 🏢🏢🏢 #PublicHousing #NYCHA #HousingJustice #Chelsea #HunterCollege IMA DocumentaryFilm AHomeWorthFightingFor NYCHousing CommunityOrganizing
Last night, 60 people packed Hunter College’s TV studio for a screening of A Home Worth Fighting For… and we could have kept the conversation going for hours. ✊ IMA alum Natasha Florentino’s documentary about NYCHA residents fighting the demolition of the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses in Chelsea brought together NYCHA residents, activists, urban planners, architects, students, and community members. Thank you to everyone who showed up and showed out. 🏢🏢🏢 #PublicHousing #NYCHA #HousingJustice #Chelsea #HunterCollege IMA DocumentaryFilm AHomeWorthFightingFor NYCHousing CommunityOrganizing
Last night, 60 people packed Hunter College’s TV studio for a screening of A Home Worth Fighting For… and we could have kept the conversation going for hours. ✊ IMA alum Natasha Florentino’s documentary about NYCHA residents fighting the demolition of the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses in Chelsea brought together NYCHA residents, activists, urban planners, architects, students, and community members. Thank you to everyone who showed up and showed out. 🏢🏢🏢 #PublicHousing #NYCHA #HousingJustice #Chelsea #HunterCollege IMA DocumentaryFilm AHomeWorthFightingFor NYCHousing CommunityOrganizing
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Last night, 60 people packed Hunter College’s TV studio for a screening of A Home Worth Fighting For… and we could have kept the conversation going for hours. ✊ IMA alum Natasha Florentino’s documentary about NYCHA residents fighting the demolition of the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses in Chelsea brought together NYCHA residents, activists, urban planners, architects, students, and community members. Thank you to everyone who showed up and showed out. 🏢🏢🏢 #PublicHousing #NYCHA #HousingJustice #Chelsea #HunterCollege IMA DocumentaryFilm AHomeWorthFightingFor NYCHousing CommunityOrganizing
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And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out! This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty: 1. Cake 2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out 3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out! This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty: 1. Cake 2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out 3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out! This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty: 1. Cake 2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out 3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out! This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty: 1. Cake 2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out 3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out! This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty: 1. Cake 2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out 3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out! This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty: 1. Cake 2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out 3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out! This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty: 1. Cake 2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out 3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out! This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty: 1. Cake 2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out 3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out! This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty: 1. Cake 2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out 3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out! This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty: 1. Cake 2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out 3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out! This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty: 1. Cake 2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out 3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out! This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty: 1. Cake 2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out 3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out! This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty: 1. Cake 2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out 3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out! This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty: 1. Cake 2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out 3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out! This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty: 1. Cake 2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out 3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
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And that’s a wrap on our third annual 48-hour Challenge! We had a record-breaking 7 teams participate resulting in 7 awe-inspiring short films. All of them are available via the link in our bio. Check them out! This years prompts were crowd-sourced from IMA MFA faculty: 1. Cake 2. Backwards, upside down, or inside out 3. “It’s gotta be here somewhere.”
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Hunter College Screening of A HOME WORTH FIGHTING FOR March 12th, 6-7:30 PM Come to Hunter’s Screening and Panel Discussion of A HOME WORTH FIGHTING FOR: The Push to Stop the Demolition of Public Housing in Chelsea Filmmaker and IMA alumn Natasha Florentino will be screening her latest film, A HOME WORTH FIGHTING FOR about local residents fight against the demolition of NYC’s public housing in Chelsea. There will be a panel discussion with Natasha and two participants from the film - a NYCHA resident leader and urban planner. Link to RSVP: https://forms.gle/UDUfCvHB2RjKB8MY7
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Hunter College Screening of A HOME WORTH FIGHTING FOR March 12th, 6-7:30 PM Come to Hunter’s Screening and Panel Discussion of A HOME WORTH FIGHTING FOR: The Push to Stop the Demolition of Public Housing in Chelsea Filmmaker and IMA alumn Natasha Florentino will be screening her latest film, A HOME WORTH FIGHTING FOR about local residents fight against the demolition of NYC’s public housing in Chelsea. There will be a panel discussion with Natasha and two participants from the film - a NYCHA resident leader and urban planner. Link to RSVP: https://forms.gle/UDUfCvHB2RjKB8MY7
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The 48-Hour Project Challenge is back for its 3rd edition! You’ll work with a mix of IMA students, alumni, and other creative community members (bring your friends!) to make a film or media project in 48 hours. It’s similar to a 48 Hour Film Festival, but IMA’s version is open to documentary, audio-only projects, experimental films, and recorded performance, in addition to narrative films— whatever direction you want to take it. It’s fun to make a short collaborative project, and it also encourages trying something new—maybe you’ll act for the first time, try audio recording, pick up a camera after a long hiatus, or experiment with something outside your comfort zone. It could lead to future collaborations and, if you need to reconnect with making things right now, it could do that too. Animation by @shiragolden.art Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfiNz5wwMfp5RA0blYq8kEBANgNFPOphDv39GAljZjR2GTPjw/viewform?usp=dialog&pli=1&authuser=0
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The 48-Hour Project Challenge is back for its 3rd edition! You’ll work with a mix of IMA students, alumni, and other creative community members (bring your friends!) to make a film or media project in 48 hours. It’s similar to a 48 Hour Film Festival, but IMA’s version is open to documentary, audio-only projects, experimental films, and recorded performance, in addition to narrative films— whatever direction you want to take it. It’s fun to make a short collaborative project, and it also encourages trying something new—maybe you’ll act for the first time, try audio recording, pick up a camera after a long hiatus, or experiment with something outside your comfort zone. It could lead to future collaborations and, if you need to reconnect with making things right now, it could do that too. Animation by @shiragolden.art Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfiNz5wwMfp5RA0blYq8kEBANgNFPOphDv39GAljZjR2GTPjw/viewform?usp=dialog&pli=1&authuser=0
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Another great class for Spring 2026 that still has spots available! NEW MEDIA ART FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE with Prof Betty Yu is where creativity meets activism. Through community-engaged projects using video, audio, photography and new media, you’ll explore how art can challenge racial injustice, climate catastrophe, gentrification, and systemic inequality. Work collaboratively to create interventions that go beyond critiquing the world, and  help transform it. From research-based assignments to a powerful final exhibition, this course places collective action at the heart of social practice. Topics explored: racial justice | climate action | gentrification | LGBTQIA+ rights | labor rights | immigrant justice CUNY students can email imamfacoordinator@gmail.com to register to with any questions. #SocialJusticeArt #CommunityEngagedArt #Artivism #NewMediaArt #SocialPractice
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Another great class for Spring 2026 that still has spots available! NEW MEDIA ART FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE with Prof Betty Yu is where creativity meets activism. Through community-engaged projects using video, audio, photography and new media, you’ll explore how art can challenge racial injustice, climate catastrophe, gentrification, and systemic inequality. Work collaboratively to create interventions that go beyond critiquing the world, and  help transform it. From research-based assignments to a powerful final exhibition, this course places collective action at the heart of social practice. Topics explored: racial justice | climate action | gentrification | LGBTQIA+ rights | labor rights | immigrant justice CUNY students can email imamfacoordinator@gmail.com to register to with any questions. #SocialJusticeArt #CommunityEngagedArt #Artivism #NewMediaArt #SocialPractice
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Are you ready to explore the space where documentary and fiction collide? This course is for filmmakers who want to push beyond traditional nonfiction—into memory, dreams, the subconscious, and experimental storytelling. Learn to make films that blur boundaries and create entirely new visual languages. Through screenings of groundbreaking hybrid work, critical readings, and hands-on production, you’ll develop the skills to explore your subjects’ interior worlds—their dreams, memories, nightmares, and unspoken truths. What You’ll Explore: → Voiceover as point of view (first-person, fictional narrators, multiple voices) → Visual language for memory, dreams & subjectivity → Re-enactments: from poetic gestures to fully-realized scenes → Working with archival material in inventive, critical ways → Speculative approaches & non-human narrative sources → The essay film, reflexivity, cinematography & montage What You’ll Make: Create 2 hybrid films that reflect your formal experiments and build your own authorial voice. Work individually or collaboratively in a supportive creative community. Student Experience: Past students have created deeply personal, powerful films mixing documentary interviews with sound design, dream logic, recreations, and speculative approaches. Strong community feel with ongoing collaboration beyond the course. Open to filmmakers ready to experiment, take risks, and expand what documentary can be. Filming and editing skills required. Email imamfacoordinator@gmail.com to register. #HybridFilmmaking #ExperimentalFilm #DocumentaryFilm #EssayFilm #ArtFilm
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Are you ready to explore the space where documentary and fiction collide? This course is for filmmakers who want to push beyond traditional nonfiction—into memory, dreams, the subconscious, and experimental storytelling. Learn to make films that blur boundaries and create entirely new visual languages. Through screenings of groundbreaking hybrid work, critical readings, and hands-on production, you’ll develop the skills to explore your subjects’ interior worlds—their dreams, memories, nightmares, and unspoken truths. What You’ll Explore: → Voiceover as point of view (first-person, fictional narrators, multiple voices) → Visual language for memory, dreams & subjectivity → Re-enactments: from poetic gestures to fully-realized scenes → Working with archival material in inventive, critical ways → Speculative approaches & non-human narrative sources → The essay film, reflexivity, cinematography & montage What You’ll Make: Create 2 hybrid films that reflect your formal experiments and build your own authorial voice. Work individually or collaboratively in a supportive creative community. Student Experience: Past students have created deeply personal, powerful films mixing documentary interviews with sound design, dream logic, recreations, and speculative approaches. Strong community feel with ongoing collaboration beyond the course. Open to filmmakers ready to experiment, take risks, and expand what documentary can be. Filming and editing skills required. Email imamfacoordinator@gmail.com to register. #HybridFilmmaking #ExperimentalFilm #DocumentaryFilm #EssayFilm #ArtFilm
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