After the enthusiasm
Fundació Sa Nostra Carrer de la Concepció, 12, Palma, Balearic Islands, SpainThe 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 […]
Representing reality
Fundació Sa Nostra Carrer de la Concepció, 12, Palma, Balearic Islands, SpainDiversity governs the various forms of representation of contemporary documentary cinema. Fiction, experimental film, television or museum projects have conceptually expanded the way filmmakers explore reality.
Masterclass: Audrius Stonys
Fundació Sa Nostra Carrer de la Concepció, 12, Palma, Balearic Islands, SpainAudrius 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 […]
Woman and the glacier
Fundació Sa Nostra Carrer de la Concepció, 12, Palma, Balearic Islands, SpainKazakhstan. Tian Shan mountains. Tuiuksu glacier. Glaciological station in the height of 3500 m. Here, for thirty years lives a woman. Totally alone and without any connection with the civilized world. She devoted all her life to science to keep her finger on the pulse of the planet. A story of the fragile Woman and […]
Distribution in COVID-19 times
Fundació Sa Nostra Carrer de la Concepció, 12, Palma, Balearic Islands, SpainThe 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 […]
Reality and subjectivity
Fundació Sa Nostra Carrer de la Concepció, 12, Palma, Balearic Islands, SpainNowadays, subjectivity is a primordial value in creative documentaries. This fact conditions the concept of reality and poses the limits that separate objective truth from the author's vision. We will address the different ways of capturing subjectivity on the screen, reflect on the writing of the documentary script and the points of view, and explore […]
Butterfly hunters or non-fiction writing
Fundació Sa Nostra Carrer de la Concepció, 12, Palma, Balearic Islands, SpainIf 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 […]
Intimacy and ethics in the documentary
Fundació Sa Nostra Carrer de la Concepció, 12, Palma, Balearic Islands, SpainGaining access to a character's privacy is a key objective for any filmmaker. Achieving it involves sacrifices, virtues and dangers that are not always easy to manage. We will address key elements in the relationship between author and subject, such as fascination, emotional distance, perspective and protection. In addition to this access, we will raise […]
In the Limits of Reality
Fundació Sa Nostra Carrer de la Concepció, 12, Palma, Balearic Islands, SpainBased on his two films "The Legend of Time" and its sequel "Between Two Waters", Isaki Lacuesta will address the contract he establishes with the viewer between the documented and the fictional. He will also talk to us about technique: about the shooting, the editing, or how to organize a team: above all, the entire […]
Living from reality
Fundació Sa Nostra Carrer de la Concepció, 12, Palma, Balearic Islands, SpainThe documentary filmmaking profession involves long periods immersed in other people's lives, without fixed schedules or calendars. Documenting other people's lives means temporarily prioritizing the subject's life over one's own. We will address the intricacies of the filmmaker's family reconciliation during the various processes that range from writing to promoting a film, as well as […]
The Creative Documentary Producer
Fundació Sa Nostra Carrer de la Concepció, 12, Palma, Balearic Islands, SpainIn an increasingly difficult international audiovisual landscape, how to give birth to works, protect authors, be creative and effective intermediaries between creation and the creative economy. Producer. Jacques Bidou will discuss on new forms of creation and production based first of all on an ethical approach to the profession. A producer is someone who is […]
The Calculation and Disclosure
Fundació Sa Nostra Carrer de la Concepció, 12, Palma, Balearic Islands, SpainAlthough nowadays the perilous predominates in independent cinema, the education of our gaze still comes from those great creators of cinematographic forms who masterfully designed the art of mise-en-scène from calculation and control. The acceptance and integration of chance demarcates the author's domains in favour of a truth that transcends him and hopes to […]
