- Convenors:
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Caterina Sartori
(Goldsmiths (University of London))
Stephen Hughes (Royal Anthropological Institute)
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- Discussant:
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Philip Cartelli
(Wagner College)
- Format:
- Workshop
- Sessions:
- Monday 6 March, -
Time zone: Europe/London
Short Abstract:
We welcome proposals from filmmakers who wish to receive feedback on a film work-in-progress at any stage of production. The selected participants will receive feedback from an expert and from their peers in a supportive environment.
Long Abstract:
We welcome proposals from filmmakers who wish receive feedback on a film work-in-progress at any stage of production. The selected participants will get a chance to screen and present their work to an expert: either a filmmaker or an academic drawn from the wide RAI film network who can comment on their work in a generative way. The sessions will be moderated by RAI Film Festival directors Caterina Sartori and Stephen Hughes, and they will be open to the festival audience. We aim to provide a creative and nurturing environment in which filmmakers will benefit from the expertise and sensibility of senior practitioners, scholars and fellow filmmakers. It is an opportunity to receive valuable feedback and encouragement, to think through issues and open questions, and to connect with a network of peers.
Each selected participant will have 30 minutes to present their work and receive comments.
In your proposal please provide:
- a brief summary of your project or a treatment
- information on what stage your project will be at (pre-production, production, post-production)
- an indication of what aspect you would like feedback on (for example but not limited to.: editing, sound design, narrative structure)
- OPTIONAL: a link to a sample of up to 5 minutes of your current project. This can be a trailer or a segment of a longer piece.
Accepted contributions:
Session 1 Monday 6 March, 2023, -Contribution short abstract:
Of Flesh and Concrete is an experimental visual ethnography of somatic culture in a Colombian city, with a focus on "fitness practices". The film seeks to represent and reckon embodied, affective experience in novel ways.
Contribution long abstract:
I’m currently doing fieldwork in Medellin, Colombia, exploring “fitness” cultures and practices, asking how these relate to shifting socioeconomic, architectural, and gender logics. In addition to working towards a written PhD thesis, I am making a film. I’m taking a truly experimental approach, in the sense that I’m playing with forms and methods in the field to discover novel means to represent and reckon affective experiences and somatic cultures. To quote Loic Wacquant, can we better evoke and understand the "taste and the ache of the action" with film?
In line with the spirit of experimentation, I genuinely can’t envision what I’m working towards (or, rather, I resist envisioning it!). By March 2023 I will be halfway through my year of fieldwork, and would like to share some representative examples of my experiments. I would really apprecaite some thoughts on these experiments, to help refine and define my concept. That is tos ay, the conversation will help shape the approach I’ll take in the second half of my fieldwork.
Contribution short abstract:
Korean-Russian-American is a poetic journey across New York and Jersey City in the times of COVID-19, guided by the voices of the Russian-speaking Korean Central Asian diaspora.
Contribution long abstract:
Korean-Russian-American is a poetic journey across New York and Jersey City in the times of COVID-19, guided by the voices of the Russian-speaking Korean Central Asian diaspora. Using 16mm footage, soundbites from oral history interviews and soundscapes of labor, transit and community gleaned across the city, this feature film at the boundary of ethnography and speculative fiction pieces together disparate stories of displacement and immigration, and glimpses of life experience to suggest a shared imaginary, based on historical and cultural kinship.
The project will be in late production / early post-production
We will appreciate feedback on editing, narrative progression, association between images, words and soundscapes
Link to sample (DO NOT DISTRIBUTE): https://vimeo.com/721988372/b62ed020bd