Reminder - Bodies of Water: Online Workshop in Embodied Documentary Filmmaking

[Imprint Documentary Collective]

Dear all, this is just a friendly reminder about our upcoming cohort of Bodies of Water. Led by an anthropologist-filmmaker and emphasising the role of the body and embodied process in making films, they may be of interest to some on this list working with, or wanting to work with, the audio-visual and themes of the body or water in any way.

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Bodies of Water: Embodied Documentary Filmmaking Workshop (Online)

Sundays 10 am -12:30 pm BST, Online

19, 26 April, 3, 10 May

For women and LGBTQIA+ participants

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bodies-of-water-documentary-filmmaking-workshop-registration-1985379121397

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 this practical workshop, participants will join a small, international cohort of up to 10 filmmakers, artists, and academics to explore the body and water through the medium of film.

Through a variety of experimental embodied filmmaking exercises over the course of a month, participants will develop their own 1 - 5 minute short documentary or experimental film as well as becoming part of the wider IMPRINT Documentary Collective community.

Sessions include:

Introduction to Embodied Documentary (19 April 2026)
Directing and Finding a Visual Language (26 April 2026)
Embodied Editing and Story Structure (3 May 2026)
Distribution and Screening of Final Films (10 May 2026)

During the workshop, each participant will move through the main stages of documentary filmmaking through an embodied lens:

• Pre-Production: How can our bodies somatically, sensorially, and emotionally inform stories of water through film?
• Directing: What informed creative and political choices do we make as directors on how we tell embodied stories on water?
• Shooting: How do we position or visualise the relationship between the body and water, with a camera?
• Editing: How do we construct water-informed, intuitive, and embodied 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. This workshop is for those who have faced marginalisation due to their gender and/or gender expression in the film industry, which includes women and LGBTQIA2S+ people. Spaces are available on a sliding scale basis.

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

@imprint.documentaries

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