First hand experience – Ethics of documentary film

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
303MDOET Z 1 7S Czech summer

Subject guarantor

Alice RŮŽIČKOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s)

Viola JEŽKOVÁ, Tereza Reichová, Alice RŮŽIČKOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Module on the border of play and improvisation to draw participants into the issues of ethical behaviour, not from a theoretic viewpoint but in direct action.

Mode of study

Module instruction: Dept of Documentary Film

Lecturer: Tereza Reichová and Viola Ježková (sponsor: Alice Růžičková)

Time and place: Friday, 1. 3. 2019, 10-17:00, Classroom U1

Requiremen: credit/1 – 100% attendance + class participation

Capacity: 25

Elective for: FAMU

Language of instruction: česky

Prerequisites and co-requisites

None

Course contents

How to understand the ethical dimensions of a piece? If ethics represents an ideal set of principles of relationship and interpersonal negotiation, where does it end and where does its sphere of activity begin? Under what conditions does the ethical appeal restrict creation or offer more substantial perspectives and material?

Though simple games the participants experience diverse positions in participation constituting a „film scene.“ In the roles of a viewer, director and protagonist they will be able to view different various appeals to ethical perception.

They experience how the selection of a shot environment influences the protagonists and viewers.

In small groups, the fundamental situation / constellation in which filmmaking takes place is present. The goal is to open up space for ethics perception and the numberous issues arising from it.

The morning session will be devoted to „case studies“ of the module lecturer's films and first game. Two more games will take place in the afternoon session. The close of the module will be devoted to review and generalization of the understood principles in relation to the documentary film tradition.

A requirement for participation is active joining into the improvisation during the entire day and preparations of one ethically ambiguous situation which will be used for creating the first game (the situation may be realistic - from a film on which the student worked, or saw or hypothetical.).

Recommended or required reading

Gauthier, Guy. 2004. Dokumentární film – jiná kinematografie. Praha: Akademie múzických umění.

KREČMEROVÁ, Gabriela. 2011. Dokumentární film, etika a manipulace, empirické poznámky na základě dokumentu Terapie loutkou. Brno: Masarykova univerzita.

Nichols, Bill. 2010. Úvod do dokumentárního filmu. Praha: Akademie múzických umění v Praze; Jihlava: JSAF, Mezinárodní festival dokumentárních filmů Jihlava.

Assessment methods and criteria

100% attendance, joining in games and preparations of one ethically ambiguous situation.

Note

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Further information

This course is an elective for all students of this school

Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019:

Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
01.03.2019 10:00–17:00 Viola JEŽKOVÁ Room No. 2
Lažanský palác 		parallel1

The subject is a part of the following study plans