The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, in conjunction with LUX (London) and The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar (New York), presents the fourth Oberhausen Seminar, which will be held during the 63rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (11 to 16 May, 2017). The Oberhausen Seminar is designed for international practitioners who work with moving images.
The Seminar is an experimental course exploring contemporary artists’ moving image practice in the context of a renowned international film festival. It is a gathering that brings together filmmakers, critics and curators, using the Oberhausen Film Festival as a laboratory to discuss ideas in the curation, production and criticism of contemporary moving image media. With the festival as text and model to examine, the cohort will closely examine film and video works, the infrastructures that allow them to circulate, and the critical frames used to curate and analyze them.
The seminar is built on the premise that knowledge produced from this seminar will come primarily from within. Participants will drive the conversation and focus. While many guests will offer their experiences and ideas, the sense-making will be generated by the group together. It is the combustion of the many interests and questions of the cohort which will guide the Seminar's outcomes.
The Seminar is led by Michele Pierson, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at King's College, London and Mike Zryd, Asociate Professor at York University, Ontario.
The Seminar is an experimental course exploring contemporary artists’ moving image practice in the context of a renowned international film festival. It is a gathering that brings together filmmakers, critics and curators, using the Oberhausen Film Festival as a laboratory to discuss ideas in the curation, production and criticism of contemporary moving image media. With the festival as text and model to examine, the cohort will closely examine film and video works, the infrastructures that allow them to circulate, and the critical frames used to curate and analyze them.
The seminar is built on the premise that knowledge produced from this seminar will come primarily from within. Participants will drive the conversation and focus. While many guests will offer their experiences and ideas, the sense-making will be generated by the group together. It is the combustion of the many interests and questions of the cohort which will guide the Seminar's outcomes.
The Seminar is led by Michele Pierson, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at King's College, London and Mike Zryd, Asociate Professor at York University, Ontario.
