Class Cinematography Production and Directing Workshop I

This course is designed to be a creative laboratory, in which students initially work individually to conceive and create a colective (and singular) film - initial work and film based on a central theme (with variations or several explorations), which is defined permanently through dialogue with the group and Professors. With joint guidance from the Professors - one specialising in conception and direction, one in conception and editing, and one in sound - the individual elements will be brought together as a whole. Rather than providing set formulas, the workshop encourages an authorial, artisanal and exploratory approach. In this approach, each cinematographic gesture is considered practical research and an act of attention to the world. Providing an integrated experience of conception, production, editing and sound, the workshop allows students to explore cinema as a form of existence, reflection and collective sharing.

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1.    Authorial conception and observation of reality: from idea to cinematographic gesture. (Development of individual projects as practical research; cinema as a path and form of attention.) 2.    Exploration of the language of the moving image. (Filming as an inaugural act of discovery. Individual work integrated into the group; singular fragments composing a plural, rhizomatic work.)  3.    Editing as writing and thought. (Editing as a space for reflection, aesthetic decision-making, and the reinvention and discovery of film.) 4.    Sound as listening, material and composition. (The ear as a relationship with the world; experimentation with silence, noise and soundscapes.) 5.    The ethics and poetics of the cinematic gesture. (Cinema as a way of existing: desire, confrontation and choices; exercises as transformatives acts.)

The course uses a laboratory model based on project-based learning, peer feedback, and collective reflection. Students individually create films that are later integrated into a collective work, coordinated on an ongoing basis in terms of conception and rection, editing, and sound work. Interdisciplinarity and experimentation are encouraged.

— BROOKS, Peter (1984). Reading for the Plot. Design and Intention in Narrative. Harvard University Press — GROVE, Elliot (2014). Raindance Producers' Lab Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking. Londres: Focal Press, second edition — MACDONALD, Scott (2006). A Crtitical Cinema 5. Interviews with Independent Filmmakers. Berkeley: University of Califórnia Press