Jana Boková

Code:

373MJB

Completion:

Z

Credits:

3

Range:

18/S

Tutor:

Michal BREGANT

Synopsis:

Lecturer: Jana Boková (Coordinator Michal Bregant)

Date and location: Friday and Saturday 7-8. 12. 2007, FAMU screening room, Friday at 15-18h and Saturday at 13-16h - in English

Course requirements: Credit/3 - for 100% active participation in the discussions and a reflective essay approx. 2-4 standard pages submitted by 11. 1. 2008 to: michal.bregant@famu.cz

Jazyk výuky:

AN

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Outline and Syllabus:

JANA BOKOVA: FILMS OUT OF CATEGORIES

??some people call my documentaries antidocumentaries. I propose a journey through my films and my cities: Los Angeles („Sunset People“), Havana („Havana“), Buenos Aires („Tango Mio“), Paris („Blue Moon“), Roma, London, New York („Quinn running“).

Jana Bokova is a visiting professor to FAMU in Fall 2007. She will work with both Czech International students during the semester. On December 7-8 she will give a special presentation and workshop focused on her personal creative experience with different places, cultures, people, and continents.

? What are the differences between different environments when you want to make a movie?

? How can one approach interesting people and local communities?

? Where are the boundaries between fiction and documentary?

? How to identify the substantial story in a real life?

? Who are the heroes?

? ? and many other questions that may be asked and answered during one-day module at FAMU. On this occasion Jana Bokova will show some her most favorite films from past twenty years. Exact date will be announced during October.

Jana Bokova was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Since 1968 she has lived in England and America and presently lives between Paris and Buenos Aires. She has a doctorate in Fine Arts, specializing in photography and the surrealists. She worked in the USA as a photographer, contributing to the Rolling Stones magazine, subsequently becoming a film student at the National Film School in England. Her first full-length documentary 'MILITIA BATTLEFIELD' (1975), which played at a Paris cinema and won her the First Director's Prize in Hyere. In 2002 La Cinémath?que Française held a retrospective of her work.

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Schedule for winter semester 2007/2008:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Fri
Thu
Fri

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Animovaná tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Dokumentární tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Animovaná tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář (optional subject)
• Scenáristika a dramaturgie - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Režie - bakalář (optional subject)
• Režie - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Kamera - bakalář (optional subject)
• Kamera - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Produkce - bakalář (optional subject)
• Produkce - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Audiovizuální studia - bakalář (optional subject)
• Střihová skladba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Střihová skladba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - bakalář (optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)