Documentary Cinema in the Digital Century - a CEU summer school in cooperation with Open Society Archives

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label Diverse autorenew 2025-09-29, 17:00 history_edu Cristian Ion
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.Application deadline: February 15, 2013.

Period
24-06-2013 - 05-07-2013 (2 weeks)

Target group
Applications are invited from graduate students, young researchers and junior faculty. Undergraduates without a university degree will not be considered. Applications are encouraged from the fields of film and media studies, sociology, cultural anthropology, gender studies, history, human rights, and other connected areas using documentary film in research and teaching. The 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
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.

Credits
2.0 ECTS credits

Course fee
EUR 550: payable until May 30, 2013



EUR 500: Early bird fee available until April 30, 2013

Course leader
Course Directors: Peter Almond, Filmmaker, Producer Oksana Sarkisova, Open Society Archive of the Central European University, Budapest, HungaryFaculty:Leo de Boer, Filmmaker/ Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU), the Netherlands;Vlad Naumescu, Depar

Scholarships
Financial Aid Financial aid is available in the following categories:

- tuition waiver

- accommodation grant

- travel grant (full or partial)

Participants from Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and Mongolia,

Central European University Summer University
Address: 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