Workshop: Sergei Loznitsa

Display Schedule

Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Language Instruction	Semester
303HDSL	credit	4	30 seminar hours (45 min) of instruction per semester, 78 to 98 hours of self-study	English	winter

Subject guarantor

Lukáš KOKEŠ

Name of lecturer(s)

Lukáš KOKEŠ, Sergei LOZNITSA

22. 11. 2023 Wednesday

10:00 - 12:30 FAMU, Department of Documentary Film Room 217 and 14:00 - 18:00 Room U7

Showing the kitchen #1: Film autopsy

Decomposition of Sergei Loznitsa's films - a thorough look behind the scenes of selected documentaries. How were they created?

23. 11. 2023 Thursday

10:00 - 12:30 and 14:00 - 18:00, FAMU, Department of Documentary Film Room 217

Showing the kitchen #2: Ethics, Aesthetics & Philosophy

Fundamental question: what is important? How to choose what is important? How to deal with a filmmaker's dilemma, what are the ethical challenges and the author's responsibilities.

Shooting documentaries - how to choose a topic and how to prepare.

24. 11. 2023 Friday

10:00 - 12:30 and 14:00 - 18:00, FAMU, Department of Documentary Film Room 217

Showing the kitchen #3: Recent work

Current film project, where various cameramen are sending footage from Ukraine. Editing sessions with Sergei Loznitsa, working with his AVID timeline and editing together an „episode“ of his new film. How is he working as an editor of his own films.

25. 11. 2023 Saturday

10:00 - 12:30 and 14:00 - 18:00, FAMU, Department of Documentary Film Room 217

Showing the kitchen #4: fiction films

Switch from documentary to fiction... why and when? Preparing the script, rehearsing, preparing for shooting, choosing the team, relationship with the producer and the rest of the team... deep dive into the fiction film creation process

27. 11. 2023 Monday

10:00 - 12:30 and 14:00 - 18:00, FAMU, Department of Documentary Film Room 217

Day for the students - consulting their projects or Showing the kitchen #5: Working with sound

How important is working with sound and how to create meaningful sound dramaturgy etc. Descriptive sound vs. juxtaposition.

Learning outcomes

The workshop by Sergei Loznitsa, one of the leading figures in contemporary European auteur cinema that straddles the line between fiction and documentary genres, will primarily focus on a detailed analysis of creative possibilities with film archives. Within the workshop, students will edit their own versions of certain scenes from complex archival films by Sergei Loznitsa - creating a reinterpretation, a remix of the material - and will attempt to find and narrate their own stories or fragments of the film.