Embodied Ecologies: Online Workshop in Embodied Documentary Filmmaking

[Imprint Documentary Collective]

Dear all, we are holding a second edition of our Embodied Ecologies workshop, focusing on filmmaking at the intersections of the body, the environment, and documentary, which may be of interest to those on this list working with similar themes or who want to apply creative approaches to their research. People of all levels of experience are welcome to join.

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EMBODIED ECOLOGIES: Documentary Filmmaking Workshop

For people of marginalised genders (women, trans, and non-binary people)

Sliding scale (scholarships available)

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, embodied practice, and documentary filmmaking. In this intensive and practical workshop, participants will join an international cohort of up to 10 filmmakers, artists, and academics to collectively explore embodiment and the ecological through the medium of creative and experimental documentary film, taking away their own short film on the deep relationships between the body and the world.

Embodied Ecologies

Thursdays 6 - 8:30 PM UK time, Online

15, 22, 29 January, 5 February

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/documentary-filmmaking-workshop-embodied-ecologies-registration-1978611029853?aff=oddtdtcreator

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 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 between the body and water, 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?

These workshops are suitable for participants of all levels of experience who have access to a computer, their own camera and a simple editing software. Experienced artists, researchers, students, filmmakers, as well as complete beginners and anyone with an interest in learning about film for the first time are all welcome to join. These workshops are for those who have faced marginalisation in the film industry and academia 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.

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IMPRINT Documentary Collective

Embodied Documentary Filmmaking

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