Creative Documentary Today
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 311MCDT | Z | 3 | 4/D | English | winter |
Subject guarantor
Name of lecturer(s)
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Participation on major film festival of documentary film in the area, networking, writing reflexive text.
Mode of study
Film festival active participation and written reflection.
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Student's interest in non-fiction and experimental films and its context.
Course contents
This module takes place within most important Central European event of its kind - International Documentary Film Festival in Jihlava (app. 110km out of Prague, website: https://www.ji-hlava.com).
Each registered participant of this module organized with co-operation with the festival (with limited number of participants) will receive Industry accreditation.
Students will follow partly given program (based on Industry section program and other selection); partly follow screenings on his/her own selection. Each participant will be offered accommodation in Jihlava for a part between October 26 - 29, 2017 (to be paid by participant).
Bellow is the list of recommended events, you are suppose to pick at least 3 and make your written reflection based on this experience. Besides of this choose whatever you find interesting from the festival program, which consist of several sections of wide range from experimental film and films as a fine art (Fascinations and Conference Fascinations) to divers kinds of creative documentaries (several competitive sections - from World competition Opus Bonum through student competitions, Central European Competition Between the Seas to Czech Joy - Czech Recent documentaries) to many topical sections and debates.
The festival website has a good tool for individual program (you have to make your own profile and then you can easily add items to it), so it can help you be where you want to be.
HERE is the selection of INDUSTRY PROGRAM, you should follow at least 2 items and base your report on this experience:
Atanas Georgiev: When Visual Narration Becomes a Social Syndrome
date: 25.10.2019
time: 20:00 - 21:00
venue: Dukla Edison
section: Festival Events
https://www.ji-hlava.com/akce/atanas-georgiev-when-visual-narration-becomes-a-social-syndrome
Case Study: Creative Budgeting in CE Europe: A Woman Captured
date: 26.10.2019
time: 12:00 - 13:30
venue: Hotel Gustav Mahler
section: Ex Oriente Film
https://www.ji-hlava.com/akce/pripadova-studie-kreativni-rozpoctovani-v-ce-europe-v-zajeti
Case study: Getting Intimate
date: 27.10.2019
time: 10:00 - 11:30
venue: Hotel Gustav Mahler
section: Ex Oriente Film
https://www.ji-hlava.com/akce/pripadova-studie-duverne-sblizovani
East West Index
date: 27.10.2019
time: 14:30 - 15:30
venue: Lighthouse
section: Lighthouse
https://www.ji-hlava.com/akce/east-west-index
Crowdfunding As a Sustainable Business Model
date: 28.10.2019
time: 15:00 - 16:00
venue: Lighthouse
section: Lighthouse
https://www.ji-hlava.com/akce/crowdfunding-jako-udrzitelny-business-model
Cristi Puiu - masterclass of a key director of Romanian New Wave
date: 28.10.2019
time: 16:00 - 17:00
venue: Dukla Reform
section: Festival Events
https://www.ji-hlava.com/akce/cristi-puiu
Recommended or required reading
Bill Nichols: Introduction to Documentary
Assessment methods and criteria
Except of the festival´s films of your own selection you are supposed to attend at least 3 events from the list of Industry events and submit a reflexive report between 2 and 3 pages, based on one of selected events.
The report should contain reflexive description of the event, critical interpretation of its content and wider interpretation of such an event within filmmaking environment.
The text must be sent to vit.janecek@famu.cz till the 1st December, 2019. You will get confirmation on submission and short written feedback in a few sentences.
Note
https://www.ji-hlava.com/ji-hlava-industry
Further information
Course may be repeated
Schedule for winter semester 2019/2020:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
Schedule for summer semester 2019/2020:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans
- Cinematography_1920 (optional subject)
- Cinematography_3_2021 (optional subject)
- Photography EN - Bachelor-1920 (optional subject)
- Photography EN - Master-1920 (optional subject)
- Cinema and Digital Media - Directing-1819 (optional subject)
- Cinema and Digital Media - Directing_1920 (optional subject)
- Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting-1819 (optional subject)
- Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting_1920 (optional subject)