Events
DISCUSSION
Genres and Formats in Short and Feature Films
Sebastian Mulder & Sertaç Koyuncu
DISCUSSION
What You Need as a Filmmaker to Grow?
Ellen Kocken, Brian den Hartog
DISCUSSION
On the Personal Voice in Film: Essay Films
Zehra CerrahoÄŸlu
WORKSHOP
Exercises on Filmic "Genrification"
Sertaç Koyuncu
WORKSHOP
Visual Suspense in Documentary Filmmaking
Brian den Hartog
WORKSHOP
Zehra CerrahoÄŸlu
Essay Film: Filmlerde KiÅŸisel Ä°fade Üzerine
Zehra CerrahoÄŸlu will talk about the essay film and the personal voice that can appear in the cracks where experimental, fiction, and documentary formats meet. She will start with some early examples, such as films by Marker and Varda, and then focus on more recent films, including some Turkish ones by Zeynep Dadak and Deniz Tortum. After this lecture, the applicants will participate in a group project.
Zehra CerrahoÄŸlu
Assistant Professor, PhD, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir/Turkey
She currently works as an assist and professor at Dokuz Eylül University, Fine Arts Faculty, Department of Film Design and Directing, where she completed her PhD in 2014. She was a visiting PhD researcher in University of St Andrews, Scotland (Department of Film Studies, 2011) and a visiting researcher in Stockholm University, Sweden (Department of Media Studies, 2021). She teaches courses on film and style, film projects and pre-production and producing in cinema. Director’s style, Turkish Cinema after 1990s, representation in film, film production strategies, European co-productions and European film policies are among her research interests.
WORKSHOP
Sertaç Koyuncu
Exercises on Filmic “Genrification”
Sertaç Koyuncu will conduct a workshop on blurring the boundaries between popular cinema and art cinema. He will give three short lectures on the relationship between film genres and sociological, historical, environmental, philosophical imaginations that inspire artistic forms. He will share some scenes from his short films “Suffocating with Manners” and “Everything I Know About Horror”, in which he tries synthesizing film genres and social imagination. At the end of each lecture, participants will do exercises on the creativity of "genrification." The participants will brainstorm their own genre-hybrid film ideas by using social imagination in groups. The workshop will end with the participants preparing a film prospectus.
Sertaç Koyuncu
Sertaç Koyuncu was born in 1991 in Ankara. He graduated from Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory Department of Clarinet in 2011 and the Dokuz Eylül University Film Design and Directing Department in 2016. In 2019, he graduated from the master's programme of the same department. He is currently pursuing his PhD in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at BahçeÅŸehir University and working as a research assistant in the Department of Film Design at YaÅŸar University.
WORKSHOP
Brian den Hartog
Visual Suspense in Documentary Filmmaking
Brian den Hartog will host a workshop on how to explore visual and experimental elements within documentary storytelling. The workshop starts with a screening of his filmic essay 'A Dialogue with Cyberspace', a metaphorical quest on how we experience our physical self in an increasingly virtual world. He'll share some of his visual inspirations and how he explores hybrid forms - combining fiction and documentary - in his other works. From there the participants themselves will perform a visual exploration with a camera. The workshop ends with a viewing of this material.
Brian den Hartog
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​Brian den Hartog (1989) finished his studies in Audio Visual Arts at RITCS School of Arts Brussels in 2018 with high distinction. It’s hard to categorize Brian's work into one specific genre. His films are often born from a documentary origin: A character, phenomena or event that triggers him to explore. From there he starts his research which he eventually translates into a filmic universe that immerses the viewer in an experience in which the lines between what's real and what's not - between documentary and fiction - start to dissolve.