Seminars, workshop, courses
In September 2022 Johannes Binotto was as cisiting scholar teaching two video essay workshops at University of Massachusetts Amherst, organised and hosted by Barbara Zecchi.
One course was devoted to the question of minority and minor use in video essays, the other on performativity and embodiment in video essay practice.… continue
Chloé Galibert-Laîné was invited to teach a desktop documentary workshop at the University of Bern – Anthropology department.
The exchanges with the students and their professor Laura Coppens were tremendously stimulating, leading to the production of five short videos and performances.… continue
Within the framework of a series of lectures for the GIBZ (Gewerblich-industrielles Bildungszentrum Zug) in a local cinema, Oswald Iten presented videographic examples of how contemporary narrative feature films create tension on the soundtrack.… continue
A collective video notebook on Alice Guy’s LES FREDAINES DE PIERRETTE (1900), the erogeneity of film and our sensibility as cinema spectators.
This notebook is the result of a video essay workshop taught by Johannes Binotto at the conference «Szenen des Sexuellen» (4.-5.… continue
An online symposium on video essays is held 24th to 25th of February on Zoom including also a workshop by our research team member Johannes Binotto.
The whole event is open to the public.… continue
Focusing on video essays in academic teaching, our hybrid workshop (four people in the room and four on zoom) at the HSLU in Emmenbrücke was a great success. On 21/22 Oct, Miklós Kiss, Kevin B.… continue
As part of their first year BA course in film theory the students at the Lucerne School of Art and Design together with Johannes Binotto and in conjunction with the videoessay research project produce collaborative video notebooks on classics of film history.… continue
As result of a theory course in February 2021 on filmanalysis taught by Johannes Binotto the first year video students at the Lucerne School of Arts and Design produced these eight video essays.… continue
Abstract: We tend to forget that the term „essay“ literally means „trial, attempt“. As Theodor Adorno has pointed out, the essay as a specific textual form necessarily challenges the ideas of pre-established methods and scientific rules and must instead be understood as an adventurous trial, as a radical experiment which „pays for its affinity to intellectual experience with a lack of security.“… continue
Chloé Galibert-Laîné will give an intensive 5-day workshop at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, entitled «Suspending Networks».
Abstract: In the context of the current pandemic, our daily interactions and activities are more than ever mediated by online interfaces.… continue
Charles University Prague, 25.11. / 26.11. / 2.12.2020 (workshop will be held online, due to Covid-19)The workshop is part of the seminar «Found footage: Praktická teorie filmu» taught by Jiří Anger.… continue