{"id":2942,"date":"2012-03-13T12:45:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T11:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2012-03-13T12:45:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T11:45:40","slug":"20-22-4-avant-garde-film-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/?p=2942","title":{"rendered":"20. &#8211; 22.4. Avant Garde Film Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:de--><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div id=\"post-3565\">\n<h3><strong>Avant Garde FilmWorkshop with Paul Prendergast<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>A three day workshop as an introduction to, historical analysis of and detailed exploration of Avant Garde Film Production, focusing on the films, filmmakers and film movements that have defined Avant Garde film production over the last century and continue to define the movement today.<br \/>\nA particular emphasis will be placed on Avant Garde film as a subversive art and its articulation as an anti establishment filmmaking process.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the films discussed will be accompanied by Detailed Film Viewing Sessions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some of the workshops aims include:\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nIntroducing participants to a detailed overview of Avant Garde Film production; its concepts, aesthetics, techniques and ideologies.<br \/>\nExposing the participants to rarely seen avant garde films.<\/p>\n<p>Through discussions about and viewing sessions of these Avant Garde Films that this exposure may act as a creative catalyst to encourage participants to create Avant Garde work of their own.<br \/>\nThe workshop will not be conducted in a chronologically linear fashion but will instead focus in on and make thematic connections between particular critical sub genres of the Avant Garde film movement. This approach will assist in clarifying the connections or otherwise between much earlier produced avant garde film production and more contemporary Avant Garde practice today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some of the Avant Garde sub genres to be discussed will be:\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nFuturist Cinema Manifesto<br \/>\nThe Revolutionary Russian Avant Gardists<br \/>\nSurrealist Cinema<br \/>\nEuropean Avant Garde Filmmakers of the 1920s and 1930s<br \/>\nExperimental Animation<br \/>\nThe Post War American Avant Gardes<br \/>\nExperimental Documentary Forms<br \/>\nThe US avant gardes of the 1950s and 1960s<br \/>\nMetaphoric Cinema<br \/>\nThe European Avant Gardes of the 1960s and 1970s<br \/>\nUnderground Film<br \/>\nFound Footage and Collage filmmakers<br \/>\nExpanded Cinema<br \/>\nStructural Film<br \/>\nFeminist film<br \/>\nThe Cinema of Transgression<br \/>\nAvant Garde in the 21st century \u2013 where are we now? \u2013 The digital revolution<!--:--><!--more--><!--:de--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Films, Filmmakers and Film movements will be further explored under these headings:<\/strong><br \/>\nAvant Garde Art movements and their influence on the Avant Garde Cinema Aesthetic<br \/>\nAs a counterpoint to the traditional and established mainstream Hollywood narrative \u2013 D W Griffiths<br \/>\nApproaches and Technical processes in making Avant Garde films and its expressions thereof.<\/p>\n<p>The historical, social, cultural, political, economic, technological and philosophical aspects of Avant Garde Films.<br \/>\nKey Movements, Films and Filmmakers in Avant Garde Cinema<br \/>\nAn indepth exploration of essential Avant Garde Filmmakers.<br \/>\nTechnology and the Avant Garde<br \/>\nGender, Politics, and the Avant-Garde<br \/>\nSubversive Cinema<br \/>\nLeft and Revolutionary Cinema<br \/>\nNew Approaches \u2013 what is happening in Avant Garde Cinema today?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some of the filmmakers to be discussed including many film viewing sessions:<\/strong><br \/>\nD W Griffiths,Fernand Leger\/Man Ray\/Marcel Duchamp\/ Luis Bunuel\/Jean Epstein\/<br \/>\nThe Russian Revolutionarys \u2013 Sergei Eisenstein\/Dziga Vertov\/Sergei Yutkevich\/Vsevolod Pudovkin\/Alexander Dovzhenko\/Lev Kuleshov\/<br \/>\nWalter Ruttmann\/Hans Richter\/Oskar Fischinger\/Viking Eggeling\/Len Lye\/Joseph Cornell\/Norman Mc Claren\/Whitney Brothers\/Robert Breer\/Jan Svankmajer\/Yoji Kuri\/Harry Smith\/<br \/>\nStan Brakhage\/Maya Deren\/Hollis Frampton\/Kenneth Anger\/Chris Marker\/Jonas Mekas\/Andy Warhol\/Jack Smith\/Ken Jacobs\/James Broughton<br \/>\nJohn Smith\/Patrick Keiller\/Peter Greenaway\/Derek Jarman\/Michael Snow\/<br \/>\nKathy Acker\/Chantal Ackerman\/ Gillian Wearing\/Pipilotti Rist\/<br \/>\nBruce Conner\/Craig Baldwin\/Adam Curtis\/Abigail Child\/Peter Tscherkassky\/Su Friedrich\/Dietmar Brehm\/Aldo Tambellini<br \/>\nBruce Naumann\/Jordan Belson\/ Paul Sharits\/Lewis Klahr\/Ian Hugo\/Larry Jordan\/<br \/>\nKurt Kren\/Peter Kubelka\/<br \/>\nRichard Kern\/Nick Zedd\/<br \/>\nFernando Arrabal\/Mikhail Kalatozov\/Nagisa Oshima\/Oushane Sembene\/Fernando Solanas\/Santiago Alvarez\/Miklos Jancso\/Volker Schloendorff\/Guy Debord\/Gillo Pontecorvo\/Alexander Kluge\/Robert Kramer\/Andrei Tarkovsky\/Alexandro Jodorowsky\/Haskell Wexler\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Prendergast<\/strong>\u00a0is an experimental filmmaker and a lecturer of film and video production. He has worked successfully in varied strands of the film and video production field including commercial videography, documentary, live theatre, independent experimental, artist films and music video production. He has taught in universities and educational institutions in both Ireland and Germany. His theoretical fields of expertise includes Avant Garde Cinema and Documentary film. He also organizes workshops on the practice of creative film and video editing and motion graphic design. Paul divides his time between Ireland and Berlin and is a member of the Berlin based music, art and film organizations Salon Bruit and Labor Berlin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Times<\/strong>:<br \/>\nFriday 20th April \u2013 4pm \u2013 8pm,<br \/>\nSaturday 21st April \u2013 12pm \u2013 7pm,<br \/>\nSunday 22nd April \u2013 12pm \u2013 7pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fee<\/strong>: 65 euro<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please Pre-Register for this workshop by sending an email to info@nkprojekt.de<br \/>\nMinimum number of participants 10, maximum 18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0NK<br \/>\nElsenstr.52, 2HH 2Etage<br \/>\n12059 Berlin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avant Garde FilmWorkshop with Paul Prendergast A three day workshop as an introduction to, historical analysis of and detailed exploration of Avant Garde Film Production, focusing on the films, filmmakers and film movements that have defined Avant Garde film production&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[62,198,393,683],"class_list":["post-2942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-avantgarde","tag-film","tag-nk","tag-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}