This summer school is offered in cooperation with the CEU Humanities Initiative (Visual Studies Platform). Open Society Archives and Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre (KEK)The city has long fascinated documentary filmmakers and social theorists alike. From city symphonies to dystopic visions, the cinematic representation of the urban stands for modernity and its discontents. Pushing the boundaries of filmmaking towards new media and collaborative ventures, this course aims to reclaim the creative impulse filmmakers found in the city and put it to work in participants' projects. Urban space constitutes a privileged site for such experiments, not only due to its constant transformation, contestation and discovery, but also as a laboratory for aesthetic, collaborative and interdisciplinary explorations. Through its powerful social aesthetics film provides ideal tools to engage with the city, while the new media offer a space for new forms of documentary, storytelling and cross-media ventures to emerge. Together, they inspire innovative narrative forms that recreate the urban experience through open, collective modes of participation and interaction. This course proposes an intensive, research-focused program for the creative development and experimentation with new forms of expression, engagement and collaboration in and of the city. For this it invites a number of selected projects and matches them with leading professionals in the field, who successfully combine film, multimedia practice and urban interventions in their own work. It offers theoretical and practical input and provides the space for urban researchers, filmmakers and multimedia artists to interact and collaborate towards accomplishing their own projects.Application deadline: February 14, 2015

Course leader
Course director:Vlad Naumescu, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest, HungaryCourse faculty:Katarina Cizek (TBC), National Film Board of CanadaJord den Hollander, Architecture Film Festival Rotter

Target group
Target groupApplications are invited from urban scholars, filmmakers and multimedia artists working with visual and new media in their projects. Collaborative projects are especially welcome. Undergraduates without a university degree will not be considered.Pre-requisitesCourse participants are expected to have a. a background in urban studies, film, or new media (postgraduate level)b. experience with urban research, film, multimedia or urban intervention projectsc. an interest in interdisciplinary collaborations on urban topicsLanguage requirementThe language of instruction is English, thus all applicants have to demonstrate a strong command of spoken and written English to be able to participate actively in discussions at seminars and workshops.

Course aim
This course proposes an intensive, research-focused program for the creative development and experimentation with new forms of expression, engagement and collaboration in and of the city. For this it invites a number of selected projects and matches them with leading professionals in the field, who successfully combine film, multimedia practice and urban interventions in their own work. It offers theoretical and practical input and provides the space for urban researchers, filmmakers and multimedia artists to interact and collaborate towards accomplishing their own projects.



Credits info
1.5 ECTS Our courses offer ECTS points, which may be accepted for credit transfer by the participants' home universities. Those who wish to obtain these credits should inquire about the possible transfer at their home institution prior to their enrollment. The Summer University Office will send a transcript to those who have fulfilled all the necessary course requirements and request one.

Fee info
EUR 300: payable until May 28 EUR 270: payable until April 30

Scholarships
A limited number of tuition waivers will be offered on a competitive basis.

Central European University
Address: Summer University, 1051 Budapest, Nador Street 9, Hungary
Postal code: 1012
City: Budapest
Country: Hungary
Website: http://www.summeruniversity.ceu.hu/
E-mail: summeru@ceu.hu
Phone: 00-36-1-327-3811