Mentoring programme Anna Salzberg film screenings, masterclass and hands on workshop
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 300MASPW | credit | 2 | 60 seminar hours (45 min) of instruction per semester, 5 to 15 hours of self-study | English | winter |
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Contents
14/11/2024 Thursday
12:30 opening of the hall
12:45 - 15:45 Masterclass Anna Salzberg, topic: feminist and subjective film as a political tool. Moderated by Alexandra Morales.
Dialogue with learners on: the personal-political in film, what contemporary feminist strategies can bring in the context of decolonization, ecological and technological crisis
Venue: Projection Lažanský palace, FAMU, Smetanovo nábřeží 2, 110 00 Prague 1
20:30 Film screening Le jour où j'ai découvert que Jane Fonda était brune (2022, 84 min.) + Le Passage du col, Marie Bottois (2022, 14 min.). Discussion with the filmmaker after the screening.
Venue: Kino Ponrepo, Bartolomějská 11, Prague 1 https://nfa.cz/cs/52115-den-kdy-jsem-prisla-na-to-ze-jane-fonda-byla-bruneta-le-jour-ou-j-ai-decouvert-que-jane-fonda-etait-brune?screening=52116
15. 11. 2024 Friday
09:30 opening of the hall
10:00 - 13:00 Lecture - Activist Creative Collectives:
- Alternative, feminist and collective modes of production, distribution and exhibition not only in documentary filmmaking.
- The role of the film lab: availability of production resources, choice of photochemical film, etc.
- Activist creative collectives.
Film screening of selected films + discussion at the end.
Venue: Reference screening room, Studio FAMU, Klimentská 4, 110 00 Praha 1
Practical workshop:
15 November 2024 Part 1
Time: 15:30 - 18:00
Location: the Department of Documentary Filmmaking, FAMU, Smetanovo nábřeží 2
- Introduction to tools (projector, camera) and materials (films, light sources), film laboratory
- Examination of the archives of the Department of Documentary Film Production of FAMU / own archival materials; work on the editing table and with the film projector
- Debate on possibilities and ideas
- Practical manipulation of the projector and evaluation of its possibilities
- Preparation for tomorrow's full-day workshop
16 November 2024 Part 2
Time: 10:00 - 18:00
Venue: Department of Photography and Department of Documentary Filmmaking, FAMU, Smetanovo nábřeží 2
- Self-screening of film materials, reshooting the archive with a 16mm camera in a performative way
- Exploring different shooting and projection parameters: different speeds, lenses and modulators
- Processing of film material: developing black and white negative
17 November 2024 Part 3
Time: 10:00 - 18:00
Venue: Department of Photography and Department of Documentary Filmmaking, FAMU, Smetanovo nábřeží 2
- Projection of newly created materials
- Hand copying (so-called flat print), exposure with various light sources and other interventions (e.g. solarization) in the film material in the photo chamber
- Developing, editing or assemblage
- Final projection
The module is open to students of MA programmes in Czech and English.
Teaching will take place in English.
Learning outcomes
- Introduction to the work and feminist approach of Anna Salzberg (masterclass and feature film)
- Introduction to creative, often activist, collectives and their possibilities and outputs (a series of shorter films from the collectives)
- Introduction to the role of community in art/cinema
- Production of a 16mm material collective film based on the reappropriation and remediation of found (researching the film archive in the KDT screening room) or own (archival) film materials
- Experience with film projection, film lab and direct film interventions
Prerequisites and other requirements
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Literature
Biography of the lecturer:
Anna Salzberg (*1980) is a French documentary and experimental filmmaker with background in literature, social and political science. She works as film director, camera operator and sound editor and has also directed sound documentaries for ARTE Radio. Anna often mixes filmic forms and approaches such as film essay, auto-ethnographic diary or film journalism, as well as different media and formats (Super8 and 16mm film, digital video). She is member of several activist and feminist creative collectives such as the Scotcheuses, collective that films and records in places of struggle, and La Poudrière, Feminist collective of Experimental Filmmakers, founded in 2016 and based at artisanal experimental film laboratory L’Etna. Besides L’Etna Anna is also member of the artist-run film lab L’Abominable, currently under transformation into artistic and patrimonial project Le Navire Argo within the space of former film laboratories Éclair.
Since 2006, Anna has been running various film and sound workshops with children in her neighborhood, with women in prisons, in emergency shelters and with students in high schools, colleges and universities (practical workshop of experimental cinema at Université de Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens, 2023).
Evaluation methods and criteria
The condition for obtaining the credit is 100% participation in the days 14 - 17 November 2024. Proof of participation by signing the attendance lists.
Note
Contact person: Andrea PETROVIČOVÁ, FAMU International Department, andrea.petrovicova@famu.cz, +420 234 244 339
Schedule for winter semester 2024/2025:
| Date | Day | Time | Tutor | Location | Notes | No. of paralel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14.11.2024 | 12:45–15:45 | Alexandra MORALESOVÁ | Projection Room Lažanský palác |
Module for pre-selected students only. | lecture parallel1 | |
| 14.11.2024 | 20:30–22:30 | Alexandra MORALESOVÁ | Kino Ponrepo |
Module for pre-selected students only. | lecture parallel1 | |
| 15.11.2024 | 10:00–13:00 | Alexandra MORALESOVÁ | Studio FAMU - reference Screen Klimentská ulice |
Module for pre-selected students only. | lecture parallel1 | |
| 15.11.2024 | 15:30–18:00 | Alexandra MORALESOVÁ | Module for pre-selected students only. | lecture parallel1 | ||
| 16.11.2024 | 10:00–18:00 | Alexandra MORALESOVÁ | Module for pre-selected students only. | lecture parallel1 | ||
| 17.11.2024 | 10:00–18:00 | Alexandra MORALESOVÁ | Module for pre-selected students only. | lecture parallel1 |
Schedule for summer semester 2024/2025:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans
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