Double Exposure

On behalf of CLiP (Crowned Lion Innovative Pictures): CLiP is Columbia University’s student-run filmmaking organization dedicated to hands-on creative education. While Columbia’s undergraduate Film & Media Studies program emphasizes theory, history, and critical analysis, CLiP exists to complement that academic foundation with real, practical filmmaking experience. CLiP provides the applied side of film education, bringing together writers, directors, producers, cinematographers, editors, and...

The 2025–26 edition of the High School Essay Contest is now open for submissions. Double Exposure is Columbia University’s undergraduate film and media journal. This contest was created to share the voices of young writers—who, we’ve found, are often just as deeply (if not more) connected to the media landscape and culture as the rest of us.

d. Peter Weir “What we see, and what we seem are but a dream: a dream within a dream.” Landscapes open Peter Weir’s haunting 1975...

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">It all begins with an idea.</p>

I turned the stile with my palm clenched, pointer finger on shuffle, and “long awaited sunset”-titled playlist reverberating through my...