Visual Anthro@CEU Blog

CINEDUCACION

ublascu — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 06:20:36 +0000

>
> *CINEDUCACION
> Share your view
> *
> In April 2011, Chilean students started a national social movement aimed to achieve a free of charge and better education for everyone. Issues such as
> profit-oriented educational institutions and unequal access to opportunities were among the urgent-but-silenced topics they brought to
> public debate; through them, they wanted to challenge not only the educational system but the whole socio-economic model the country adopted
> during Pinochet?s dictatorship. According to the last national survey, their demands are currently supported by 80% of the population, revealing a > widely spread social unrest amongst Chileans.
>
> Standing from an active and engaged position with this social movement, we at Overlap -a Laboratory of Audiovisual Anthropology- have created a
> project called ?CinEducaci?n?, which can be translated both as ?Film+Education? and ?Without Education?. It is a collective digital
> platform designed to be used as a space of information, creation and public debate regarding education. The project was initially inspired by May 68?,
> when in the midst of the student revolts a group of French filmmakers -Godard, Resnais, Garrell and Chris Marker, from whom we have already
> received his active support- came out on the street to document the events. They produced short audiovisual essays, which later were projected under
> the name of ?Cin?tracts?. Like those filmmakers, we want to align ourselves with the student?s demands, but in addition, we?d like to take advantage of
> the internet and the ease of access to cameras in order to widen the call to the whole population, and not just to professionals. Despite the number
> of renowned filmmakers already engaged with the project (over 20, including Patricio Guzman, Gael Garc?a Bernal, Pablo Larra?n, Ignacio Ag?ero, Willem
> Dafoe and Cristi?n Jim?nez), our main purpose is to open a broad space where every creation is welcome and valued, and where no audiovisual > experience is required.
>
> We would like to invite you to be a part of this collective platform, sharing your own view about what is happening in Chile and around the world
> regarding education. It doesn?t matter where you live, which language you speak, if you are a professional filmmaker or a citizen armed with a phone
> camera; what matters is having something to say and to use audiovisual language to share it with us. Animations, collages, productions, voice
> over, text and all imaginable resources will be welcome. CinEducaci?n is a collaborative project which starts in Chile and is opened to diverse > approaches, so take your camera and speak up!
>
> *How to participate?*
>
> Simply produce a video of between 1 and 4 minutes, upload it to youtube or vimeo and register on www.cineducacion.cl. On our website you will be able
> to watch, comment and share all the material we?ve received. Starting next December, we?ll allow anyone to make a film by selecting, sorting and
> cuting the shared videos, thus challenging the idea of a unique and vertical editor. We are also organizing a series of free screenings at
> public spaces and cultural and educational centers, and next year we will produce an interactive DVD and a 90 minute documentary film with selected
> videos, which will be screened on movie theaters and sent to international film festivals. All published material will be licensed under Creative
> Commons, and we are currently working on getting funds to open an English version of the online platform. >
> In addition to inviting you to collaborate by sending videos, we encourage you to work with us by spreading the word on this project between friends > and contacts.
>
> If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us.
> We look forward to having you on board.
>
> Ricardo Greene
> -Coordinator
> www.cineducacion.cl / @cineducacion
>

ESoDoc International – 2nd Online Conference // Residential Workshop Application

ublascu — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:53:45 +0000

ESoDoc International 2011

The training initiative for documentary and new media
projects with social impact

3 continents: AFRICA, INDIA, EUROPE 
2 public online conferences 
1 residential workshop

Next events of ESoDoc International 2011

Second Online Conference

NOVEMBER 7, 2011
Application Deadline for
Residential Workshop
NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Second Online Conference
NOVEMBER 7, 2011 – 11:30 UTC
Topics:
Financing and distribution for factual-projects with social impact in Africa, India and Europe.

Among the experts:
- Iikka Vehkalahti(YLE, Finland)
- Gargi Sen (Magic Lantern Foundation, India)
- Jörg Grossmann (GreenFilm, Germany)
- Stefano Tealdi (Stefilm, Italy)
Register

on http://international.esodoc.org to join the conference!
Read more…

Application Deadline for Residential Workshop
NOVEMBER 16, 2011
Venue: AMREF Child Development Centre, Nairobi (Kenya)
Dates: January 28 – February 4, 2012
The residential workshop will take place in the Nairobi suburb of Dagoretti, at the AMREF Child Development Centre, where participants and trainers will meet personally and finalize projects in such a particular environment.
To apply for the residential workshop, please register on http://international.esodoc.org and fill the application form.
Read more…

About ESoDoc International
ESoDoc International is addressed to African, Indian and European filmmakers, new media professionals and NGO representatives who want to develop social documentary projects suitable for the International Markets.

ESoDoc international gives importance to strategies and methodologies (i.e. Participatory Video) that support a different perspective and a “view from inside” on Africa, India or Europe, a change of position in the narration of a specific story.

The first ESoDoc International consists in two public online-conferences and one residential workshop for Indian, African and European professionals. It will be supervised by international experts whose expertise is to plan, create and distribute documentary films and cross-media projects with a social impact.

ESoDoc International is organized by ZeLIG School for Documentary (Italy) in partnership with AMREF (Italy & Kenya) and FORMEDIA (India), with the support of MEDIA Mundus.

Contacts
Website: international.esodoc.org
Email: international
Phones: Europe: +39 0471 302030 India: +91 98 100 44745 Africa: +254 20 6994419

If you do not want to receive these information anymore, reply to this message and put in the subject field “UNSUBSCRIBE“.

ESoDoc_International-2011.pdf

Films of the SUN course Anthropological and Documentary Filmmaking, July 2011

ublascu — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:05:00 +0000

Directed by Hadas Bar, Ian Cook, Anette Dujisin

Directed by Ewa Jarosz and Laerke Riis Paalsson

Directed by Norah Benarrosh-Orshoni and Kristen Eglinton

Directed by Akanksha Mehta and Anna Nikolaeva

Directed by Hanna Synková, Jonnabelle Asis, Ram Krishna Ranjan

Directed by Sona Lutherova, Tomas Hirt, Sergiu Novac and Kata Vársanyi

Directed by Ipek Oskay and Drago Zuparic-Illjic

more about the summer course

Marx at the Movies Conference, University of Central Lancashire

ublascu — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:34:38 +0000

Call for Papers
Marx at the Movies Conference
University of Central Lancashire
March 16-17, 2012

As the Lehmans Brothers filled for bankruptcy on September 15 2008 an era came to a halt. No more was there a belief that ‘the Market’ would work for the greater good as long as it was left un-regulated. As the belief in neoliberal theory and practice collapsed, many turned to the alternative theory – that of Marxism, not least because for Marx the challenge for human thought was not simply to understand the world but to change it.

Not for the first time Marx is ‘fashionable’. As David Harvey observes in his introduction to The Communist Manifesto: ‘The Communist Manifesto of 1847 is an extraordinary document, full of insights, rich in meanings and bursting with political possibilities. Millions of people all around the world – peasants, workers, soldiers, intellectuals as well as professionals of all sorts – have, over the years, been touched and inspired by it.’

The same can be said about filmmakers, film academics and students, in view of the fact that cinema, as a collective endeavour and as an industrial art, is an excellent ground to test Marxist dialectical thought. But how has cinema engaged with Marxist theory and practice? How has cinema engaged in processes to create radical social transformation, including decolonisation and the liberation of women? Is there a revival of Marxism in contemporary film theory and practice?

These are some of the questions we want to discuss during the two-day conference, hosted by the School of Journalism, Media and Communication in Preston –a town of great importance to the history of the working class, as testified by Marx and Engels’ writings. Papers are sought for topics such as:

The problems of conveying Marxist thought on screen (including attempts to screen Capital)
Representation of alienated and nonalienated labour and capital on screen
The work of Sergei Eisenstein, Bertolt Brecht, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Dušan Makavejev, Satyajit Ray, Ousmane Sembène, Alexander Kluge, Ken Loach, Lars von Trier. Are they Marxist filmmakers? Western and Eastern Marxist film theory and history
Socialist production, distribution and exhibition of films
Marxism, Third cinema and the cinema of revolt
Marxism and feminist cinema
Marxism, realism and non-realism
Screen images of Marx, Engels and Lenin

Organising committee
Prof. Ewa Mazierska
Dr. Anandi Ramamurthy
Dr. Lars Kristensen

Deadline for abstracts (max 250 words): 1 December 2011.
Please send abstracts to Ewa Mazierska
EHMazierska@uclan.ac.uk
Or
Lars Kristensen
LLFKristensen@uclan.ac.uk

A good student film festival

ublascu — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:23:43 +0000

MONDAY 8th AUGUST: CELEBRATING STUDENT FILMMAKERS
For the first time in 2012 there will be an international film festival dedicated solely to student films from around the world. The London based International Student Film Festival will help young film makers have a platform for showcasing their work and becoming involved in the industry. The festival will take place in London from the 2nd to the 3rd of February. The call for film submissions is now open. For more information on the festival and submitting your films visit this website. http://www.sfflondon.org

Hunting vegetables by Anna Khvyl

ublascu — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:29:26 +0000

Visual anthropology project by Anna Khvyl

CfA: Workshops for film and audiovisual professionals, CIANT, Crete/Nicosia/Prague DL: 15.06

ublascu — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 18:20:32 +0000

On behalf of the CIANT director Pavel Smetana, we would like tocordially invite you and your colleagues / students to register for theupcoming workshops for film and audiovisual professionals focused onS-3D techniques (stereoscopic 3D digital cinema) and digitalpreservation of audiovisual works. The workshops are organized withinthe framework of the TransISTor project which was funded by the EUMEDIA Program. TransISTor is run by CIANT – International Centre forArt and New Technologies which is based in Prague , Czech Republic .

TransISTor is a multidisciplinary training initiative offering Europeanprofessionals four intensive workshops focused on new technologies inthe two following key areas:
Â· Module I: Preservation techniques and methodologies for digital audiovisual works;
Â· Module II: Stereoscopic 3D moviemaking from script to screen

The workshops will take place according to the following schedule:

Module I/ Preservation of Digital Audiovisual Works
Crete , June 22-25, 2011

Module II/
Workshop 1: Integrated Approach to 3D Cinema and Stereoscopy (script, storyboard, theory of S-3D and development)
Nicosia, Cyprus, July 4-7, 2011

Workshop 2: S-3D Movie Making
(four days of intense S-3D shooting with experienced film professionals, S-3D rigs etc.)
Prague, Czech Republic, July 18-21, 2011

Workshop 3: S-3D Post-production: Visual Effects and S-3D CGI Sequences(motion capture, editing, telecine & combination of live action andCGI sequences, post-production)
Prague, Czech Republic, in collaboration with Fresh Film Fest, August 24 – 27, 2011

In case you are interested or have any additional questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us on transistor2011@ciant.cz or directly apply for the workshops through our website:
http://transistor.ciant.cz/2011/

Deadline: June 15

LOST FILMS

ublascu — Thu, 19 May 2011 10:02:39 +0000

I sounded interesting and worth spreading the news about it, especially for film lovers or for those more familiar with old films:

LOST FILMS is a new internet portal aimed at collecting and
documentingfilm titles, which are believed or have been declared “lost”. The ARCHIVE currently contains over 3500 entries,a number of which are extensively illustrated with surviving documentscontributed by archives and individuals worldwide. The IDENTIFY section contains images and short video clips of around 50 unknown or unidentified films,which face the danger of also becoming lost if not identified bymembers. The aim of LOST FILMS is not to produce a definitive list oflost films but to provide a platform where members can frequently – andfreely – exchange, add and update information.

LOST FILMS is an initiative of the Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen, Berlin. The project has been developed in close collaboration with the following institutions:

Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Wiesbaden
Centre national de la cinématographie (CNC), Paris
Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna
Národní filmový archiv, Prague

LOST FILMS has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation).

http://www.lost-films.eu/

Camelia

13 March, 2011 17:58

ublascu — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 16:58:30 +0000

Film-making Workshops “Who is afraid of the Big Bad Crises?”

Dear all,

Please see below some information about 3 film-making workshops taking place in the Balkans:The workshops will aim to address the topical issue of “crisis” by developing 3 films all starting from the same moment of crisis and structured around the same ‘anchor moments’. During the workshops the selected young filmmakers will have the opportunity to meet and get to know each other, as well as exchange ideas about cinematography and the role of cinema, in the Balkan region.The main purpose of the workshops is to give participants time to envision and create short films addressing the subject of crisis, seen from different perspectives: economical, political, personal crises, etc.The moderators and trainers of the workshops will be the artists and filmmakers Effi & Amir: www.effiandamir.net

Each workshop will aim to produce a collective short film, challenging traditional film-making methods and instead of a linear creative process “writing, filming, editing” a new creative process will be developed and the three film-making stages intertwined (editing will take place throughout the process and not only at the end, writing will develop and emerge during filming etc), making the relations between writing, filming and editing much more dynamic.The collective short films will, of course, be co-productions created by teams of participants of different nationalities and will be shown in a public screening after each workshop, as well as during the 2nd edition of “Balkans beyond Borders” Film Festival, which will take place in Athens in June 2011.

Deadlines:
Skopje Workshop Dates: 30 March – 6 April 2011 – Application deadline: 15th of March 2011

Tirana Workshop Dates: 6 May – 13 May 2011 – Application Deadline: 1st of April 2011

Athens Workshop Dates: 15 June – 22 June 2011– Application deadline: 1st of May 2011

http://www.balkansbeyondborders.eu/activities/2010-activities/film-making-workshops-%E2%80%9Ewho-is-afraid-of-the-big-bad-crises%E2%80%9C/#more-754

Titicut Follies

ublascu — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:19:37 +0000

Titicut Follies is a black and white 1967 documentary film by Frederick Wiseman about the treatment of inmate / patients at State Hospital for the criminally insane, a Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

Watch the movie HERE

Read an interview with Wiseman on reason.com (2007)

See filmography on Zipporah Films