Workshops
Consider your spatial relationships to nature and investigate how they can be explored in filmmaking, taking viewers on an unexpected and profound journey.
Dates:
Nov 9, 2024 - Dec 7, 2024
Levels:
Intermediate,
Advanced,
Workshop Fee: $675
Workshop Duration: 12 hours over 4 sessions (Saturdays, 1-4pm ET + 1:1 Instructor time (Skips Saturday, Nov, 30)
Workshop Location: Online
Class Size: 10
Note: This workshop will be held in a live, online format utilizing the Zoom platform.
Class meets on 4 Saturdays, Nov 9, 16, 23, (Skips Nov 30) & Dec 7 from 1-4pm ET.
Successful experimental documentaries open our world to seeing things differently by exploring new visual language and concepts. This class will explore the zone of complex interactions with the living world, where the human and the non-human coexist and share an uncertain future. We will examine the notion of nature and space and how it relates to filmmaking and representation in your pursuit of producing a short experimental documentary.
Guided by award-winning filmmaker and artist Lasse Lau, this four-session workshop (held over five weeks) will take students through the basics of developing and producing an experimental 3-to-5-minute short, from production through post-production. Through curated reading and viewing, this class will investigate modes and possibilities of experimental filmmaking that blend into contemporary artistic and scientific-environmental debates and discussions that address the living world. The workshop encourages students to examine their place in culture and nature and how it relates to experimental films as a place of silent dialogues and disorientation of the other.
Between sessions we will complete exercises to outline and produce your experimental documentary in which living worlds come alive, the unknown is magnified, stories are told between the lines, and time, sound, and sometimes opacity are used to tell stories from what we see and do not hear—and what we hear and do not see.
NOTE: Students should be proficient in using their cameras (even if that camera is a phone) and have at least a basic proficiency with an editing software of their choice (e.g. DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere.)
Header image: The Raven and the Seagull – A film by Lasse Lau.
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Instructor: Lasse Lau
Now based in the U.S., Lasse Lau is an award-winning Danish-born filmmaker and video artist who looks at the spatial dimension of power to examine society's social struggles. His films have been shown in galleries and museums and at festivals around the world, among them: Beirut Art Center, The British Museum, BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts/Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Cairo Cimatheque, Casa del Lago DF, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d'art contemporain, Darb 1718, Edith-Russ-Haus fur Medienkunst, Festival d'arts vidéo Clermont Farrand, Fotografisk Center, Green Lantern Gallery, Hamburger Bahnhof, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Lumiar Cité, Malmö konsthall, Medrar for Contemporary Art, MoMA PS1 - Museum of Modern Art, Musée de l'Homme, Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea Lisboa, Museum of Resistance Torino, OCAT, Recontres Internationales, Smart Project Space, Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art, Westfälische Kunstverein and WRO Media Art Biennale.
His films have won many awards including the Grand-Prix Jean Rouch – Nanook in Paris, Nordic:Dox Award at CPH:DOX, Art & Power at Master of Art Film Festival in Bulgaria, Golden Raven in Russia, Best World Cinema at Kansas Filmfest, Special Jury Award, Cinema on the Bayou, Experimental Film Award at Oslo Film Festival and 1st prize at Fokus Videokunst Festival in Copenhagen. He was a Jury member of Fogo Island Film: Resistance and Resilience, NL, Canada, in 2019.