The city has long fascinated documentary filmmakers and social theorists alike. From city symphonies to dystopic visions, the cinematic representation of the urban stands for modernity and its discontents. Pushing the boundaries of filmmaking towards new media and collaborative ventures, this course aims to reclaim the creative impulse filmmakers found in the city and put it to work in participants' projects. Urban space constitutes a privileged site for such experiments, not only due to its constant transformation, contestation, and discovery, but also as a laboratory for aesthetic, collaborative, and interdisciplinary explorations. Through its powerful social aesthetics film provides ideal tools to engage with the city, while the new media offer a space for new forms of documentary, storytelling, and cross-media ventures to emerge. Together, they inspire innovative narrative forms that recreate the urban experience through open, collective modes of participation and interaction.
This course proposes an intensive, research-focused program for creative development and experimentation with new forms of expression, engagement, and collaboration in and of the city. For this, it invites a number of selected projects and matches them with leading professionals in the field, who successfully combine film, multimedia practice, and urban interventions in their own work. It offers theoretical and practical input and provides the space for urban researchers, filmmakers, and multimedia artists to interact and collaborate towards accomplishing their own projects.
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