If I close my eyes and imagine a filmmaker, a figure appears with a tool in its hands. It’s a long stick, with a mesh at its end. And with it, he tries to catch the right shape, the butterfly, the image to say what it means, to share the idea, the story, the emotion […]
The session will address the possible distribution paths for a documentary film. What models are most convenient to give impact and path to our film? How can festival strategy anticipate a correct distribution of the documentary? We will study the resources, aids, and windows available to us in a complex distribution ecosystem, aggravated by the […]
Audrius Stonys will be the guest of honor of the 2021 edition of MajorDocs. Using examples from his previous films, the Lithuanian filmmaker will explain what he understands by cinema and what drives him to dedicate his life to creation. We will learn from him about the different strategies and lessons he has accumulated over […]
The philosopher Remedios Zafra, an expert in creativity, will address some of the ideas in her essays The Enthusiasm (Anagrama Essay Prize) and her recent Fragile, on the vulnerability of artistic creators. In the new culture of immaterial work, for many people life is spent isolated in front of screens, exhausted and anxious, overmedicated, resting […]
But where the danger is, also grows the saving power. This is a sentence by the poet Friedrich Hölderlin that would perfectly define contemporary filmmaking: films speaking about uncertain times, powerless characters, vanishing landscapes, mistrusting images, endless ways of detachment. Our films are indeed addressing a Solastalgic moment, marked by a strong common feeling: the […]
Lynne Sachs will explore the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences. Using examples from the essay films, experimental documentaries, and performances she has produced over the last three decades, she will guide her workshop participants on a journey investigating the connection between the body, the camera, and the materiality of film itself. […]
In the philosophical proposal that Esquirol has been developing, the concept of poetics occupies a very special place, which is not only linked to the arts but to everything that contributes to generating and creating justice, beauty and warmth. This exhibition will explain in what sense the escalation of the human and the world are […]
Memory boxes or multimedia files stored on my external hard disk was the trigger for a trilogy about my memory through the digitised images of my own video tapes (renouncing the analogue) and the assumption of a non-physical, nostalgic and ghostly material. From this experience emerged my three most personal films, because they are self-referential: […]
The talk will delve into the specific characteristics of home movies and amateur films, as well as the different methods of recontextualizing them in new artistic works that bring a personal and original point of view of this film heritage. We will address the crucial ethical and aesthetic questions raised by the reuse of this […]
