Shared Footage

 

The Shared-Footage workshop was conceived for a series of 3 workshops we gave in the frame of the Balkan Beyond Borders film festival in 2011. In line with the festival's theme, our intention was to question other borders, those of the author.
The workshop is destined to final year art or film students and/or artists /filmmakers (or other cinema professions - script writers, soundmen etc).
After an initial brain storming, a theme is defined, as well as some other constraints, such as place or time of the day. Around this theme, during the following days, the participants collect/create raw materials - footage, sound, texts, from which they select excerpts that they contribute to a collective data bank.
The data bank is open to all the participants andeveryone can use whatever material they want and in the way they choose, in order to make their own work. In the final results we may find the same piece(s) of raw material appearing in different works, each time gained another meaning according to the way it was used and contextualized.
The working process is a constant alternation between three situations/activities: individual (or collaborative) making, collective viewing and group discussions.

 

The Shared-Footage workshop was conceived for a series of 3 workshops we gave in the frame of the Balkan Beyond Borders film festival in 2011. In line with the festival's theme, our intention was to question other borders, those of the author.
The workshop is destined to final year art or film students and/or artists /filmmakers (or other cinema professions - script writers, soundmen etc).
After an initial brain storming, a theme is defined, as well as some other constraints, such as place or time of the day. Around this theme, during the following days, the participants collect/create raw materials - footage, sound, texts, from which they select excerpts that they contribute to a collective data bank.
The data bank is open to all the participants andeveryone can use whatever material they want and in the way they choose, in order to make their own work. In the final results we may find the same piece(s) of raw material appearing in different works, each time gained another meaning according to the way it was used and contextualized.
The working process is a constant alternation between three situations/activities: individual (or collaborative) making, collective viewing and group discussions.