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Central European University, Budapest announces its international postgraduate summer course on "Documentary Cinema in the Digital Century" (June 24 - July 5, 2013) for graduate students and junior researchers and faculty preferably in humanities.

Detailed course information: http://www.summer.ceu.hu/documentary-2013

FACULTY

Course Directors:

Peter Almond, Filmmaker, Producer
Oksana Sarkisova, Open Society Archive of the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Course Faculty:

Leo de Boer, Filmmaker/Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU), the Netherlands
Vlad Naumescu, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Bill Nichols, Department of Cinema, San Francisco State University, USA
Michael Renov, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, USA
Alexandru Solomon, Filmmaker/Photo-Video Department, National University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania

The first decade of the 21st century witnessed an explosion of interest in documentary cinema, enthused and transformed by digital technologies. With increasingly affordable cameras and digital editing, as well as evolving online viewing and sharing platforms, filmmaking and film viewing entered a qualitatively new stage, challenging the established approaches to reality, document, and evidence as well as formatting new ways of grasping and affecting societal changes. Questions generated by the digital nature of the imagery, shifting concepts of “author” and “consumer” of images, as well as a changing infrastructure of production, circulation, and preservation of audio-visual imagery requires revisiting the very foundations of the concepts of document and documentary.

The summer school creates an innovative interdisciplinary forum by bringing together film and media scholars and filmmakers to bridge the space between academic and non-academic settings and to examine the state-of-the art debates and new practices in documentary cinema. Our goal is to move beyond the use of audio-visual material as illustration towards a reflexive examination of the foundations of image-based research and teaching. The course targets advanced graduate students, junior and post-doctoral researchers, and early career scholars in film and media studies, social sciences, gender studies, history, and human rights.

Language of instruction: English

Application deadline: February 15, 2013