Call for Participants: Experimental Embodied Documentary Workshops

18 views
Skip to first unread message

Imprint Documentary Collective

unread,
May 20, 2025, 5:19:12 AM5/20/25
to col...@googlegroups.com
Dear all, apologies for cross-posting. We have a few spaces left on our next experimental practice as research workshops, utilising documentary filmmaking to explore a wide variety of themes through an embodied and creative lens. All levels of experience and areas of research are welcome.

------------------------

EMBODIED DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING WORKSHOPS
Online
For people of marginalised genders (women, trans, and non binary participants)

Embodied Documentary Filmmaking is a creative practice-as-research process developed as part of IMPRINT Documentary Collective's ongoing, collaborative work exploring the convergence of the body, somatic practices and experimental/documentary filmmaking. In our experimental workshops, participants join a small, international cohort of 10 filmmakers, artists, and academics to apply an embodied lens to the subject of their choosing through the medium of film. Through a variety of collaborative embodied filmmaking exercises over the course of a month, participants will develop their own 1 - 10 minute short documentary or experimental film on a subject of their choosing related to the body and embodiment, as well as becoming part of the wider IMPRINT Documentary Collective community.

During the workshop, each participant will create their own short film by moving through the main stages of documentary filmmaking through an embodied lens:
  • Pre-Production: How can our bodies somatically, sensorially, and emotionally inform stories we want to tell through film?
  • Directing: What informed creative and political choices do we make as directors on how we tell embodied stories?
  • Shooting: How do we position or visualise the body, or create a representation of the experience of the body, with a camera?
  • Editing: How do we construct bodily-informed, intuitive, and alternative narrative structures for our films?
  • Distribution: Where do we want our films to be seen, and what social and personal impact do we want our films to have?
This workshop is suitable for participants of all levels of experience who have access to their own camera and a simple editing software. Artists, movement practitioners, researchers, students and filmmakers are all welcome to join. This workshop is for those who have faced marginalisation due to their gender, which includes women, trans and non binary people.

ABOUT IMPRINT
IMPRINT Documentary Collective is a queer and feminist film collective exploring embodiment and the body in documentary filmmaking. Founded in 2021, IMPRINT delivers workshops, productions, and screenings to collectively experiment with embodied documentary filmmaking as a process for making uniquely felt yet political films. Our collaborations both within the film industry and local communities have allowed us to reach a wide audience on the potential of embodied documentary, and our goal is to broaden the representation of gender-marginalised storytellers by using the documentary medium as an act of radical and empathic resistance through the lens of the body politic.


--
IMPRINT Documentary Collective
Embodied Documentary Filmmaking
@imprint.documentaries
Sign up for our newsletter here
Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages