Workshops/seminars - SoundImageCulture

The projects are accompanied by collective sessions, selected masterclasses, individual coaching and dialogue with a coach of the SIC team. The workshops/masterclasses are conceived in relation to the participants projects.

8 / 3 / 2023 :

FILM AND THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL DREAMING - Masterclass with Andrea Luka Zimmerman

How we might resist being framed exclusively through class, gender, ability or disability, and even through geography?

I will outline my working process, spanning over a decade, which contributes attention to the under-expressed intersection of public and private memory and itinerant lives, human and otherwise, often in relation to structural and political violence. Processes where radical encounters call for uncommon commons and futures, using filmmaking practice as a form of social dreaming.

Andrea Luka Zimmerman is a Jarman Award winning artist, filmmaker and cultural activist whose multi layered practice calls for a profound re-imagining of the relationship between people, place and ecology. Films include the Artangel-produced 'Here for Life' (2019), which received its world premiere in the Cineasti Del Presente international competition of the Locarno Film Festival (winning a Special Mention), 'Erase and Forget' (2017), premiering at the Berlin Film Festival (nominated for the Original Documentary Award), 'Estate, a Reverie' (2015) (nominated for Best Newcomer at the Grierson awards) and 'Taskafa, Stories of the Street' (2013), written and voiced by the late John Berger.

Selected exhibitions include 'Art Class' at METAL and LUX, 'Shelter in Place' at Esturary Festival, 'Civil Rites', the London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, 'Common Ground' at Spike Island, Bristol and 'Real Estates' at Peer Gallery. Andrea co-founded the cultural collectives Fugitive Images and Vision Machine (collaborators on Academy Award® nominated feature documentary 'The Look of Silence').

Andrea co-edited the books 'Estate’ (Myrdle Court Press) and 'Doorways: Women, Homelessness Trauma and Resistance' (House Sparrow Press) and has published extended essays in Anthologies as well as open access platforms such as 'Open Democracy', 'La Furia Umana', ‘Another Gaze’, among others. Andrea grew up on a large council estate and left school at 16. > fugitiveimages.org.uk

9 / 3 / 2023

SOUND - workshop with Charly Deville

Thinking sound as texture, from recording to treatment: How to use the sound in different ways than classic microphone recording ? A morning around sound-recording and microphones: discuss and test different microphones & make your own contact - microphones.

Passionate about sound and music, Charly took different music courses and bought his first synthesiser very young. Enjoying photography too, he subsequently enrolled in the Brussels School of Photography. He soon showed a desire to merge image and sound, thus he began studying film at Brussels and became a sound editor afterwards.

3 / 2 / 2023

ON PRODUCTION - workshop with Alice Lemaire (Michigan Films)

Producing independent films from a producer point of view: What is it like? What are the realities of a producer? When should I sign my contract and what to argue on? Is he / she over-making profit on my project? What is a fair percentage? How to chose the right producer? How not end up hating each other? Can I trust him / her? Sharing experiences and thoughts about the crucial relationship between producer and director, in order to make great films together.

After studying in Paris, Alice Lemaire settled in Brussels to devote herself entirely to cinema. She worked for Wallonie-Bruxelles Images for two years promoting and exporting Belgian French-speaking films abroad. Today, she works mainly as a producer for Michigan Films and develops singular documentary and experimental projects. She has accompanied numerous films selected in international festivals: "Qui es-tu Octobre ?" by Julie Jaroszewski (Visions du Réel), "Une fille de Ouessant" by Eléonore Saintagnan (Silver Sesterce at Visions du Réel), "D’un château l’autre" by Emmanuel Marre (Pardino d’Oro in Locarno).

michiganfilms.be/

9 / 11 / 2022:

QUESTIONS - workshop with Sirah Foighel Brutmann

Collective viewing of (favourite) films that deal with notions of family, care and trauma.
The viewing will be followed by QUESTIONS, a discursive practice that started in 2009 out of the necessity to find new ways to polylogue when addressing political and artistic discourse. QUESTIONS enables the participants to continuously reformulate ideas, theories and concepts while advancing towards understanding, misunderstanding, poetics, or all at once. The discussion is held only by asking questions, each participant can ask as many questions as wanted and there is no predetermined order of speakers. Each question needs to relate to the question or questions before it. Each question has to be directed to all participants and not to a specific person. Each participant can repeat a question that was asked earlier in the discussion or ask for 30 seconds of silence.

Sirah Foighel Brutmann is a Brussels based audio-visual artist. She is working through installation, moving image and performance in collaboration with Eitan Efrat.

Sirah and Eitan's practice focuses on the performative aspects of the moving image. In their work they aim to mark the spatial and durational potentialities of reading of images – moving or still; the relations between spectatorship and history; and the temporality of narratives and memory.

Sirah is a founding member of Messidor an artist-run organisation for AMI production and exchange. She is an active member of Engagement arts, a peer to peer platform that fights sexism in the arts. Sirah works from Level Five an artist run cooperative studio in Brussels.

Their works have been produced by Auguste Orts and Argos (BE) and distributed by EYE institute (NL), they have won prizes in IMAGES (CA) and Oberhausen Film Festival (DE). Sirah and Eitan have presented their work as featured artists at the 59th Flaherty Film Seminar (US), and have participated in artists talks and presentations in institutions such as Doc’s Kingdom, FLACC, Genk, LUCA BFA class, Brussels, DocNomads 2014, and Bezalel MFA class, Tel Aviv. Sirah and Eitan teach video at l’erg, Brussels.

10 / 11 / 2022:

Soundworkshop with Charly Deville part II

Thinking sound as texture, from recording to treatment: How to use the sound in different ways than classic microphone recording ?

7 / 9 / 2022 :

FROM A PHILISTINE TO LA BEOTIENNE

masterclass with Basma al-Sharif

Al-Sharif will share a project titled 'a Philistine', an installation work centered around the reading of a fictional text within the exhibition space, accompanied by a series of stand-alone images.
The text, broken into three genres: History, Fantasy, and Erotica, follows the story of a central character nicknamed “Loza” on a train journey from Beirut, through Palestine, that ends in Upper Egypt. Told chronologically, the narrative moves backwards in time through history. Beginning in present-day Lebanon, the narrative travels through 1935 Palestine, and ends in New Kingdom Egypt.
A Philistine is the original work from which a new piece is being developed, titled 'Beotienne'. In the early stages of development, al-Sharif will engage participants in how she aims to translate text into voice, landscape into atmospheric sound, and politics into music. Proposing a series of exercises that engage participants and their own practices in how they specifically, spontaneously understand the act of translation.

Basma al-Sharif is an artist of Palestinian heritage raised between France, the US, and the Gaza Strip who developed her practice nomadically. She works between cinema and installation to explore the legacy of colonialism through satirical, immersive, and lyrical works. Major exhibitions include: the Ruttenberg Contemporary Photography Seriesat the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Mondays at MOMA, CCA Glasgow, the Whitney Biennial, les Rencontres d'Arles, les Module at the Palais de Tokyo, Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum, Al Riwaq Biennial Palestine, The Berlin Documentary Forum, the Sharjah Biennial, Videobrasil and Manifesta 8, and has participated in international film festivals in Locarno, Rotterdam, Berlin, Milan, London, Toronto, New York, Montreal, and Yamagata. Basma is represented by Galerie Imane Farés in Paris, and distributed by Video Data Bank and Arsenal. She is currently based in Berlin.

8 / 9 / 2022 : 14:00 - 17:00h : GC Ten Weyngaert

Soundworkshop with Charly Deville

Thinking sound as texture, from recording to treatment: How to use the sound in different ways than classic microphone recording ?

8 / 9 / 2022 : 19:00 - 21:00h : GC Ten Weyngaert

GLOBES by Nina de Vroome

Screening & Case-Study with the Director

Caught in a dance, bees tell each other stories about the world around them. People equally claim their role in those stories, sometimes very close and intimate, sometimes distant and on an industrial scale. Nina de Vroome’s thoughts also swarm as bees do: from the smallest cell in a honeycomb to the global economy, her essayistic nature documentary Globes charts the bond between humans and bees. As accomplished storytellers, they both give shape to lives under the sun.

Nina de Vroome (1989) is an independent filmmaker. She studied film at KASK / School of Arts in Ghent. Her graduation work Waves (2013) is a reflection on sound and the way it influences senses of community. In 2016 she completed A Sea Change, a feature documentary film about a maritime boarding school near the Belgian coast. The short documentary A Dog’s Luck (2018) is a portrait of a group of police dogs during their training. Her films were shown at international festivals like Visions du Réel and International Film Festival Rotterdam. She is a writer and editor
for Sabzian, a Belgian magazine on cinema. As a teacher she is involved in various educational projects. She makes collages and engages in collaborations as a sound engineer and editor.

29 / 6 / 2022 :

IMAGINED IMAGES

masterclass with Emily Wardill

Emily Wardill's masterclass will expand from her work over the past 15 years which has been an ongoing enquiry into the imagined image – what it is, what it has been used for and how it leaves indelible motes and shrapnel behind it.
She will talk about her current area of research – centred around the working title: Mis remembered Bones. The title comes from an essay that Luigi Ghirri wrote in the 1970s. In his collection of short stories about photography, Ghirri mis-remembers the carcass that washed up on an Atlantic shore as a whale, when in fact, it was a giant human. These mis remembered bones serve as an imaginary being we can use to elucidate our own relationship towards structure and image. Bones are the things that we dig up in order the find out about our evolution and the structure that

Emily Wardill's practice spans film, video, sculpture, performance, photography and installation. It has been an ongoing enquiry into the imagined image – what it is, what it has been used for and how it leaves indelible motes and shrapnel behind it. This has taken her from examples of entropy to case studies on risk detailing fires attributed to paranormal activity. It has travelled from psychoanalytical case studies on negative hallucination to memory palaces and their relationship to colourless vision. From stained glass as an early device to communicate with the illiterate right up to the filmic technique of 'day for night' - reversing it to reflect on technological vision, performed gender and imagined utopias.

Wardill’s work has been exhibited at Secession, Gulbenkian Project Spaces, SMK , de Appel arts centre, List Centre MIT , The ICA, XYZ Collective Tokyo ,The Biennale of Moving Images Geneva, The Serpentine Gallery, The Hayward Gallery, MUMOK Vienna; and MOCA, Miami. She has shown in the Berlinalle Forum Expanded and the New York and London Film festivals. Her work was awarded the Jarman Award in 2010, the Leverhulme Award in 2011 and the EMAF award in 2021. She participated in the 54th Venice Biennale and the 19th Sydney Biennale.

emilywardill.com

30 / 6 / 2022

Artist - Run Production

workshop with Rebecca Jane Arthur (Elephy / on & for )

On 30 June, Rebecca Jane Arthur will be joining SIC to engage in a peer-to-peer discussion on artist-run production. As artist and producer, Rebecca will share her experiences of working in the field of artists' moving image production, setting up and maintaining a collaborative platform for production, and learning together with others about models of collaboration.

Links: elephy, Moving Image Atelier (MIA) by elephy, argos centre for audiovisual arts, On & For Production and Distribution

Rebecca Jane Arthur (b. Edinburgh, UK) is a Brussels-based visual artist working predominantly with the moving image and writing. In recent years, she was artist-in-residence at Cité internationale des arts, Paris, JAI at Tabakalera,San Sebastian, WIELS, Brussels, Conversation #4, an initiative of Centre Vidéo de Bruxelles (CVB) and GSARA, in partnership with Beursschouwburg, Brussels, and participant of SoundImageCulture (SIC), Brussels. She recently exhibited her work at ARGOS, Brussels; Beursschouwburg, Brussels; Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris; Courtisane Festival, Ghent; FESTIFREAK, Buenos Aires; FRACTO, Berlin; Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi; Open City Documentary Festival, London; Punto de Vista, Pamplona; Size Matters, Vienna; Tallinn Photomonth: Contemporary Art Biennial; WIELS, Brussels; 25FPS, Zagreb, among others. In 2018, she co-founded an artist-run production and distribution platform for film and media arts in Brussels called elephy (www.elephy.org). Parallel to her artistic practice, Arthur worked as Coordinator of the Creative Europe-funded project On & For Production and Distribution (2018-2021) at Auguste Orts and currently works as Coordinator of Audiovisual Productions at argos centre for audiovisual arts in Brussels.

11 / 5 / 2022 :

Déplacer le regard
- masterclass with Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam and Geoffroy Cernaix

11 – 13h Screening DELPHINE’S PRAYERS, 80 min, 2020

This film is the portrait of Delphine, a young Cameroonian girl who, after the death of her mother and the abandonment of her father’s parental responsibilities, was raped at the age of 13. She sinks into prostitution to support herself and her daughter. She ends up marrying a Belgian man who is three times her age, hoping to find a better life in Europe for her and her daughter. Seven years later, the European dream has faded and her situation has only gotten worse.

Delphine,like others,is part of this generation of young African women crushed by our patriarchal societies and left with this Western sexual colonization as the only means of survival. Through her courage and strength, Delphine exposes these patterns of domination that continue to lock up African women.

14:30-17h IN DIALOGUE

Working with film puts at stake many of our (inherited) power relations on all levels.
The ones between the maker and subject, but also those in promoted techniques, schools, commissions, production houses and none the less in distribution. How to find your own point of view in this and how to find the freedom to defend it?

Rosine Mbakam and her partner and editor Geoffroy Cernaix propose a joint masterclass to share on the dialogue they create around the stories shared, between them, with the spectator.

Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam was born in 1980 in Cameroon and started working at the NGO COE where she was trained in editing and directing. She made several documentaries there. In 2003, she joined the team of STV (Spectrum Television) where she made audiovisual programmes. Mbakam left Cameroon in 2007 to study film at INSAS in Belgium. In 2018, she co-founded Tândor Productions with Geoffroy Cernaix.

After graduating from the ESAV film school in Toulouse with a Masters in History and Cinema, Geoffroy Cernaix joined the IAD in the editing section, where he graduated in 2008. In 2009, he joined Atelier Cinéma - Gsara as an editor. He works there as an editor and producer for Tandor Productions.

https://tandorproductions.com/en/

13 / 5 / 2022 :

The circulation of moving images:

- a workshop on programming and distribution with María Palacios Cruz

The moving image comes to “life” through its encounter with the spectator - whether it takes place in the film theatre, online, in an exhibition, or even a text. The curator’s role is to enable that encounter, both by providing a critical context for the work and guaranteeing the quality of its presentation, and by mediating it to the audience; working with and between artists, institutions, technicians and spectators. This workshop proposes a short introduction to questions around the distribution and programming of experimental non-fiction film. How can we share our work; how do we get people to see it and discuss it?

María Palacios Cruz is a film curator, writer and educator. She is currently the director of Open City Documentary Festival in London and was previously course leader for the Film Curating degree at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastian (Spain). María has been working for many years as an independent curator for film festivals and cultural institutions all over the world. She has been a programmer for the Courtisane Festival since 2008 and was its director between 2010 and 2012. From 2015 to 2020 she was deputy director of LUX, the UK's moving image agency for artists. In 2011, she curated the exhibition “SoundImageCulture. Poetics of Observation” for Netwerk Aalst on the work produced during the first five years of the SIC programme.
opencitylondon.com , courtisane.be

13 / 5 / 2022

CASE - STUDY : SOY LIBRE with Laure Portier

Arnaud is my little brother.

One day I realized that he had grown up.

He was born where people have no choices and he is trying to be what he should have been. Free.

Laure Portier was born in 1983 in Deux-Sèvres. After a degree in modern literature in Toulouse and a year at the ESAV, she joined the INSAS in Brussels in the image department. After graduating, she became a camera assistant and worked on feature films. In 2019

she presented her first short film, Dans L'œil du Chien, winner of the Short Film Prize at the Cinéma du réel festival. Soy Libre is her first feature film.

16 / 3 / 2022 :

De bouche à oreille et vice versa, fluid narratives in image moving practices
- a workshop with Maïder Fortune

Considering stories as fluids that flow from mouth to ear and vice-versa, the workshop will explore how we are affected/infected by the words and images they conjure. Whether lived, heard or read, stories expand our lives and fantasies, opening our experience to third-party subjectivities that shape the present of our metabolism.

What structures/forms do they conceal that can found a writing project "in cinema"?

How can we approach the articulation of multiple image systems (textual, sonic, visual), while taking care to encourage games of friction, twisting, hassle, creating rich and singular displacements?

From collective reading/viewing/listening, we will sketch out tracks of practices that are likely to nourish the projects of each of the participants.

Maïder Fortuné, studied literature and theatre (École Jacques Lecoq in Paris) before entering Le Fresnoy National Studio for Contemporary Arts, where she developed a performance-related practice of the technological image. With its great formal rigor, Fortuné’s work commands all the viewer’s attention for a genuine experience of the image and its processes. Recently, her practice turned to more narratives preoccupations. Lecture performances and films deeply rooted in writing, are the mediums she process to open up new narrative strategies.
Her work has been exhibited internationaly (Europe, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan). In 2010 she won the Villa Medicis fellowship in Roma, Italy. Recent shows and performances have been held at Gallery 44, Toronto, Centre Pompidou Paris, and the Toronto International Film Festival.
In 2020, Communicating Vessels won the Accomodo Tiger award at IFFR Rotterdam, the Main Award of Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, the Student Award of Black Canvas film festival in Mexico, and was part of Indie Lisboa film festival, FID Marseille film festival, Montreal documentary Film Festival, Bucharest Film Festival. Outhere (for Lee lozano) is her last film codirected with Annie Mac Donell.

maiderfortune.net/

17 / 3 / 2022 :

ON PRODUCTION workshop with Alice Lemaire ( Michigan Films )

michiganfilms.be/

17 / 3 / 2022 :

CASE - STUDY : PETIT SAMEDI with Paloma Sermon-Daï

Damien Samedi is 43 years old. When he was a child in his belgian village on the banks of the river Meuse, they called him the “Petit Samedi”. To his mother, Ysma, Damien is still her child, the one she never abandoned when he got caught up in drugs. A son who sought to protect his mother despite it all, a man attempting to liberate himself from his addictions and faces his past to get through.

Born in Namur, Belgium in 1993. From 2005 to 2012, she attended the Athénée Royal Jean Tousseul in Andenne, and went on to complete a bachelor’s degree in Cinematographic Technique at the Haute École Libre de Bruxelles Ilya Prigogine (HELB). Petit Samedi is her first feature-length film.

14 / 1 / 2022 :

The question of Sound in Reality-based films:

a masterclass with Walter Hus

“When I can think of something, myself, when I have an idea, in fact I am not interested in it anymore, because it is already existing in my head, and it has no surprise. But when 2 ideas come into contact with each other and together they create something new that surprises me, then my whole being gets excited and I go into that direction. “

What is exciting is to be discovered as you go, not to be imposed by a pre-existing plan or dramaturgy, such as that of a movie. But on the other hand, the experience has taught me that limitations, rules, a framework of any kind can help in the creation of music or music score: by being forced to obey certain rules, one often finds a trajectory from which one did not know its existence beforehand and that one would never have walked otherwise.

Composer and Musician Walter Hus will discuss with us possibilities of sound for film and share his experiences.

Walter Hus is originally a classically trained pianist. His love of improvisation led him at first to jazz music. Initially his dream was to travel the world as a (jazz) pianist. In the 1980’s he co- founded the Belgian avant-garde group Maximalist and toured the world with them. They made a kind of radical music: a minimalism that sought a contrapuntal confrontation. In an inconscious way, Walter Hus had from the start being making his music as a (superposition) of layers, and the whole, the total effect, was made by all the layers together. He developed a kind of obsession with counterpoint where complex lines coexist, and for Walter this complexity is an auditory interpretation of the world as it is.

He became a composer only by accident when he was asked to compose for a fashion show of Yamamoto. Since then, the assignments have not stopped. While at first he performs a classical repertoire and his own piano music, he later explores many musical styles by collaborating with orchestras and ensembles of all kinds, writers, visual artists, cartoonists, rock and techno artists, as well as theatre directors, choreographers, filmmarkers and video game developers.

They include Rosas Dance Company, Roxane Huilmand, Jan Ritsema, Guy Cassiers, Needcompagny, Hybrid Dance Company, Ben Okri, Peter Greenaway, Chris Ware, Tale of Tales, Frederic Rzewski, Fatoumata Diawara, Guo Gan, DJ Push, Peter Krüger, Many Riche, Spectra Ensemble, Arditti Quartet, Brussels Philharmony Orchestra and many others.

In 2000, he discovered the Decap Orchestrion, a computer controlled automated setup of organs and percussion instruments developed by the belgian company Decap and thereby discovers a new aspect: the importance of the texture of the sound as a musical element that is at least as important in shaping a work as the specific sequence of the musical notes themselves. He sets out to explore the new instrument, composing soundscapes, operas, film scores, stage music and rock songs, collaborating with wind energy research projects, revisiting techno hits from the 1990’s and numerous other projects.

The Decap Orchestrion gave new dynamism to Walter Hus' film scores. Not only did he have now with this miraculous device his own orchestra, so to speak, with which he could immediately have his own music performed, he was also able to invent a new kind of sounds as if he could shape the wind, and in this way creating sound landscapes with which the images of a film could form a contrapuntal landscape, as it were.
In 2015, he received the Ensor Award at the Ostend International Film Festival for his soundtrack to the film N- The Madness of Reason be Peter Krüger.

Previous workshops & seminars

Exploring Project and Subject through Practice - workshop with Sabine Groenewegen

In this workshop the participants start testing and clarifying their approach and relationship to their material and subject trough several exercises, one-to-ones tutorials and group discussions.

We explore writing through editing and thinking through making.  By experimenting we examine the use and appropriateness of possible narrative devices, the maker’s POV and relationship to the circumstances of production of their material. We explore how different approaches (documentary, fiction, hybrids) will suit the subject and ambition of the project, and reflect on how these choices affect modes of sharing with an audience.

Sound and Spatialization - workshop with Patrick Codenys

SOUND WORKSHOP AND SPATIALIZATION

This workshop aims to highlight and master the advantages of the dimension of sound in relationship to image.

A basic approach is necessary to define the parameters of sound and establish a common vocabulary (nature of the sound, rhythms, harmonics, volumes, frequencies, etc.)

We are interested in Psycho-acoustics: the influence of sound on our body, our mental perception and behavior. The place of diffused, vibrating or absorbed sound in the environment, architecture, space and time will also be clarified.

Emphasis is placed on the development of our sensory faculties: learning to listen, educating our ears, awakening hearing acuity to better optimize the work as soon as the sound is taken during filming.

This joint approach is done intuitively as it is cerebral, passing from observation to knowledge.

Unlike the visual world which is hyper codified and subject to many recognized symbols and models, the audio world remains a relatively undefined discipline. It diffuses 360 degrees in space - the image being reduced to the two-dimensional screen. We grasp this disparity to analyze the sound-image integration through different examples drawn from cinema, documentary cinema, video, and also contemporary art installations.

More precisely the role that sound can take as a singular actor, in the form of "another" narrative and expression - developing its own language.

Decolonization of my Cinematographic Gaze - masterclass with Rosine Mbakam

Imagination has always been a means of expression, escape, resistance and protection. This imaginary is strongly nourished by my family and its history, including my history. Documentary came later as a means of creating a link between all this.
How can you put your story into images when you are impregnated by a cinema that does not represent you and does not resemble you? How do you preserve your singularity? How can I integrate the documentary into my story and not the contrary? How can I find a form that is liberating for my imagination, for my story and that frees itself from pre-existing codes?

Cinema of Dissent - seminar with Stoffel Debuysere

“When film-makers organize themselves to start from zero, to create a cinema with new types of plot-lines, of performance of rhythm, and with a different poetry, they throw themselves into the dangerous revolutionary adventure, of learning while you produce, of playing side by side theory and practice, of reformulating every theory through every practice, of conducting themselves according to the apt dictum coined by Nelson Pereira Dos Santos from some Portugese poet: ‘I don’t know where I’m going, but I know I’m not going over there.’” (Glauber Rocha)

Some tales of cinema setting out to redraw the trajectories that frame a given landscape of reality, undoing the knots and plots through which dominant histories are transmitted. Tales of invention and dissension, giving expression to an infinity of resistant emotions, perceptions, movements, gestures and gazes. Tales of cinematic adventures traversing and expanding borders, beyond the perimeters set by hierarchies and categories, and by so doing may yet bring forth that wonderful surprise which the forces of cynicism begrudge us — that which is still possible.

ATTENTION! - workshop with Ben Russell

ATTENTION! is a workshop exploring perceptual re-engagement, one that seeks to re-orient the audiovisual attentions of its participants towards the present. Participants will be led by artist, filmmaker and curator Ben Russell in a series of exercises that will produce a continuity from now to the infinite. Informed by Ben Russell’s own decades-long practice in image-and-sound collection under the loose frame of “documentary” and / or “psychedelic ethnography”, the workshop contains audiovisual tasks drawn from sources as diverse as Maryanne Amacher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, LSD test subjects, hydrophone coral reef recordings, Jean Rouch’s idea of trance-cinema and more – all in the name of recognising one’s own intuitive, cognitive and perceptual processes within the construction of the Here and Now.

Root Seminar Eric Pauwels
The aim of this seminar is to critically examine key-works in documentary film history. Special attention is given to films made in first person, by film authors who reflect upon the position of the viewer and the distance to ‘the other’ (Rouch, Mekas, Gheerbrant, Van der Keuken, ...). The emphasis is on the ethical core of each encounter. The film is understood as a creation shared between filmmaker and the people filmed.

Sound and Spatialization Patrick Codenys
This active workshop turns around sound, its technics and possibilities for narration. Site specificity and perception are accentuated and experimented with. Placing and a possible circulation of the public are at stake as well as rhythm, temporality, duration and orientation of a work.

Pre-Cinema / Databased Future Seminar Didier Volckaert
The seminar of Didier Volckaert brings us back to the basics of Cinema and the use of AudioVisual Media today. It reflects on the fact that the difference between Anthropology and Visual Anthropology (or Documentary in the broadest sense) is the use of a machine, a technological construction, as means of direct communication (filmmaker--other) and delayed output (filmmaker--other--public). It opens up this awareness for any use of AudioVisual Media in Art, Science and even entertainment. The seminar is a manifest against the dominant position of language in our Culture and a confrontation with the complexity of images. But it’s also the joy of exploration, experimentation and a renewed sense of freedom in our standardized media society. By re-tracing the origins of our machines in Pre-Cinema and Dead Media we try to understand their parameters and how we can use them to give sense and meaning, to communicate our point of view and to create Art. All of this brought to you in both a sensorial and active way in direct relationship to your own project.

Practices of Representation and Narration Mary Jiménez
Through a series of exercises the participants will try out different modes of representations of reality, such as 'auto-ethnography', the performative and poetic approach. The exercises will be screened and discussed collectively.

Senses– Narration – Representation Laurent Van Lancker
Collaborative, Narrative and Sensorial strategies are discussed using examples at the crossroad of art, anthropology and cinema (Martens, Kawase, Costa). This interdisciplinary seminar encourages the participants to experiment with sound and narrativity in an experiential and sensorial way.

Observation and Cityscapes ,_ around the heart Els Opsomer
In this playful workshop we focus on possibilities of participating and reading an urban landscape in relation to different moods. One introduction walk is organized. We visit different studios and films related to the participant’s interests are shown. The last day participants show a possible “valley of tears / tränenpalast” in Brussels and these spots will form a closure walk of the workshop. Questioning personal strategies and methods in creating artistic works is the main goal and hopefully sharing each others reading will enlarge every participants view.

Text and Context Pieter Van Bogaert
This seminar reflects upon the relation between form and content through the analysis of critical texts and artistic contexts. Topics include spectatorship, representation, resistance, exotism, voyeurism and more.

Production Proposals Laurent Van Lancker
An introduction to the different channels that exist, mainly in Belgium, to find support for your project. And a short overview on how to write project proposal.

Editing sessions Didier Volckaert
The SIC participants, faculty and a professional documentary editor come together to discuss the edits in progress, and to reflect upon the point of view, audiovisual communication, narration, and any problems that arise.

Dub Cinema : The Politics of Assemblage Louis Henderson
A workshop and screening about archaeological strategies of video making - using the Internet as an archival resource for sound and image. Focusing on practical cinematic methods of collecting, recycling, sampling and collaging, the workshop will elaborate on films and videos that post-produce critical analyses of political events. Cinema will be discussed as a site for the creation of a collective assemblage in which bodies become together through contagious animistic forces. Montage as assemblage is the form that brings together and makes possible this political act of communal being. Cinematic method and cinematic event. Collecting and collectivity.

The Aesthetics of Ambiguity & Implicit Storytelling Jeff Silva
Cinema, particularly non-fiction film, is bound up by the lived experience, by the index, by the "actuality" of human existence. But cinema is also a powerful form of magic; it's a kinesthetic dance of movement, light, color and sonic vibrations that penetrates our bodies and can alter our perception to embed alternate forms of knowledge that can have a lasting impact on the viewer long after the ephemeral images on the screen have disappeared. How can we as artists/ethnographers maximize the potential of cinematic magic and yet still deliver deeper ideas and resonances? How can be effectively conjoin meaning, memory and affect? How can we empower a viewer as a collaborator in narrative construction and meaning making through the aesthetic use of ambiguity? And how might an ethnographically inflected project benefit from exploring these questions? Through screenings, discussions and readings we shall explore these questions for answers that might help inform our own research and individual artistic practices.

Archive, recycled images, found footage. Practices of re-editing in film Daniele Dottorini
The workshop will focus on a contemporary trend of the editing practices, namely the re-editing of archival materials. Will therefore stress the central role of the editing for the reconfiguration of the meaning of images produced in other contexts, where they acquire new meanings and new functions through the editing process. The workshop will last one day and will take place through a process aimed at highlighting, using selected examples throughout history of cinema, the possibilities of the “reuse the images”, from the editing as a compilation, as a collage or as appropriation (according to the definitions created by William A. Wees) up to several paradigms that are the basis of a Archive-based films (historical, aesthetic, anthropological and political), or the difference between Repetition and Umwertung (Revaluation), according the theories of Christa Bluminger.

Session David Toop

David Toop will be thinking through doing about thinking through doing, dwelling on intimacy, resonance, time, materials, fluidity of practice, the nature of instruments without bodies.