最准的六合彩论坛

Overview

This six-week online short course explores聽historical and contemporary filmmakers who use the camera as a tool for encounter.

It explores the uncertainties inherent to working processes that rely on an openness to the people and situations filmed, and to the unpredictable course these may take.

The course looks at works in which specific bonds between filmmaker and filmed are created, from interventionist approaches of Cin茅ma V茅rit茅 to diaristic, essayistic and personal films. You'll consider: Can聽filmmaking be as much to do with life as with film? Could it redefine how we relate to the unknown other in film as much as in reality?

Who it's for

This course聽is open to anyone who is interested in the subject. You don't need any particular knowledge or experience聽to attend.

Course structure and teaching

This course will be delivered via online distance learning. You'll need to have your own computer or other internet-connected device.

Sessions will be held on Monday evenings for six聽weeks. They'll start at 7pm and last approximately 2 hours, including a short break.聽

Classes will involve lectures, group discussion and watching clips from films.聽

Course content

1. Cinema verit茅 and encounters through intervention聽

This week will聽look at the camera as an accomplice to create new forms of encounters.

We'll explore the idea that the filmic tool opens up a space for a type of interaction which wouldn鈥檛 be possible in everyday life. You'll look into Jean Rouch鈥檚 suggestion that 鈥淚t 鈥� the camera 鈥� becomes a kind of psychoanalytic stimulant, which lets people do things they wouldn鈥檛 otherwise do.鈥� We'll visit key works of cinema verit茅 and explore the ethical implications of these forms of encounter. 聽

Films: Chronicle Of A Summer by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin.

2. Documentary as diary: Encounters in everyday life聽

This week will聽look at films in which the filmmaker 鈥渞e-encounters鈥� the everyday behind the lens.

In these works the filmmaker鈥檚 gaze on the everyday turns the mundane into poetry. The camera becomes a tool which separates and connects the maker from/to her own world and holds an important role in this alteration of the everyday. 聽

Films: Diary by David Perlov, Irene by Alain Cavalier, Walden by Jonas Mekas, Katatsumori by Naomi Kawase, and The Filmmaker鈥檚 House by Marc Isaacs.

3. A journey of encounters: Structure or adrift聽

This week will聽focus on films that employ the camera as a premise for an existential journey, crossing the border between life and film.

Whether through a preconceived framework or taking shape through the filmmaker鈥檚 chance encounters the journey will thus be analysed as both a direction or a lack of direction in the films, leading to the question: Can one embark on a film with no clear intention?

Films: People I Could Have Been and Maybe Am by Boris Gerrets; Those Who Go Those Who Stay by Ruth Beckermann; Addicted To Solitude by Jon Bang Carlsen; Et La Vie by Denis Gheerbrant; Guest by Jos茅 Luis Guerin, Gallivant by Andrew K枚tting; Sherman鈥檚 March by Ross McElvee.

4. Strangers within: Encounters with self through the other聽

This week will聽focus on films which question commonly held assumptions around the division between director and subject in the documentary encounter.

We'll look at processes of making where the filmmaker鈥檚 search opens up to a mirroring effect between those she films and herself. We'll explore the idea that such films allow for the autobiographical to meet the to-be-shared biography of the subject.聽

Films: L鈥檃nn茅e Prochaine on Partira by Juliette Joff茅, Khalik Allah IWOW I Walk On Water, Far and Near by Xiaolu Guo, D茅j脿 Vu by Jon Bang Carlsen, Les Glaneurs et Glaneuses by Agnes Varda.

5. Encounters with women聽

This week will聽look at films made by and with women encountering strangers and drifting in public space.

Traversing fiction and documentary, we'll explore both the risks and possibilities specific to women when venturing into uncertain territories and pursuing encounters without knowing the outcome. We'll look at it from a historical, political and experiential perspective. 聽

Films: Cleo from 5 to 7 by Agnes Varda, Wanda by Barbara Loden, Je Tu Il Elle by Chantal Akerman, Places in Cities by Angela Schanelec, Le Vertige des Possibles (Uncertain Times) by Vivianne Perelmuter, Slow Delay by Therese Henningsen

6. Encounter as collaboration and working process聽

This week will聽explore collaborative ways of working where the production processes may be seen as an encounter between groups of people and consider frameworks that allow for the imaginative input of the people involved.

We'll look at different kinds of collaborative processes and consider how these may expand our conceptions of filmmaking methods and expressions.聽

Films: Here for Life by Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Adrian Jackson, In Vanda鈥檚 Room by Pedro Costa, Mysterious Object at Noon by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ogawa Productions, Medvedkine Group, Karrabing Film Collective

Cost

The standard price for this course is聽拢185. The following concessions are also available:

• Students: 拢175
• 最准的六合彩论坛 Students/Staff: 拢165

This course offers bursary places. Please check our聽聽to see if you are eligible to apply.鈥�聽

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Course team

Juliette Joff茅

Juliette is a filmmaker based in Brussels. Her films have been shown in festivals such as Visions Du R茅el Nyon, FIDMarseille, Open City Documentary Film Festival, and Astra Film Festival. Her first film Maybe Darkness was awarded a Wildcard For Best Documentary by The Flemish Film Board allowing her to direct The Hero With A Thousand Faces which won Best Short Film Film at Mostra Internazionale Di Cinema Di Genova. She recently finished the mid-length essay film Next year, we will leave. She runs the documentary course in Brussels-based art school Preparts.聽As part of her programming practice, she was invited to introduce the work of Belgian filmmaker Olivier Smolders at Open City Documentary Film Festival 2017.

Therese Henningsen

Therese is an artist, filmmaker and programmer based in London. Her films have been shown at Whitechapel Gallery, Chisenhale Gallery, Whitstable Biennale, Close-Up Cinema, SMK Statens Museum for Kunst, among others. She's a member of the two film collectives Sharna Pax and Terrassen, both engaging with the social life of film. She collaborates on ongoing film and research projects with artists and filmmakers Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Sidsel Meineche Hansen and Juliette Joff茅. She's currently working on a practice-led PhD in Media Arts at Royal Holloway University and teaches on the MA Documentary and Ethnographic Film at 最准的六合彩论坛 and BA Media Arts at Royal Holloway University.

Course information last modified: 7 Aug 2024, 14:51