program

Session 1
•    Introductory Meeting
•    Theoretical framework: Problematizing performance-based filmmaking
•    Screening: “Poetics of Relations: A Manifesto on Performance-Based Filmmaking” by VestAndPage
•    Collective conversation
•    Practical focus and Assignment #1: Filming, Atmosphere

Session 2
•    Theoretical framework: Diverging performance video work, performance video documentation and performance-based film
•    Screening: Excerpts from performance-for-camera and performance film examples
•    Showcasing Assignment #1 results and collective conversation/feedback
•    Practical focus and Assignment #2: Character, Action, Object

Session 3
•    Theoretical framework: Dis/entangling space, time and the body in action
•    Screening: Excerpts from performance-for-camera and performance film examples
•    Showcasing Assignment #2 results and collective conversation/feedback
•    Practical focus and Assignment #3: Time, Space, Effects

Session 4
•    Theoretical framework: Dissecting the story that every one of us has to tell
•    Screening: Excerpts from performance-for-camera and performance film examples
•    Showcasing Assignment #3 results and collective conversation/feedback
•    Practical focus and Assignment #4: Story, Text, Sound

Session 5
•    Theoretical framework: The Nature of the Poetic Moving Image in its Performativity
•    Screening: Excerpts from performance-for-camera and performance film examples
•    Showcasing Assignment 4# results and collective conversation/feedback
•    Practical focus and Assignment #5: Production, Editing

Day to be established: Presentation of Participants’ Final Video Works

For the assignments and final works, participants can use any technical equipment at their disposal.

KEY CONCEPTS
Some key concepts include:

•    Poetics of Relations
•    Memory Activation
•    Creative Inspiration/Creative Process
•    Habits and Rituals
•    Site-specific
•    Problem-posing/solving
•    Experimentation
•    Storytelling
•    The human body as a materia prima
•    Objects and Matters
•    Urgency
•    Authenticity
•    Embodiment
•    Cultural appropriation
•    History and Collective Trauma: Limits, Uses and Abuses
•    Ecological Intelligence

READINGS

Participants are provided with further readings and books in digital format to deepen the topics discussed during the online meetings.