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Workshop: Amsterdam, Mediamatic / Post CS

Workshop Interactive Dance Film @ Cinedans

Reshaping dance film with interaction and installations

Together with the Cinedans Festival, Mediamatic present a hands-on workshop on interactive dance film with a focus on interactive film installations.

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In this workshop, 16 (dance) filmmakers, artists, editors and choreographers will play with the dynamics of bodies, camera and interactive users. They learn to use the powerful and versatile Korsakow System (that has exciting new features for screen lay-outs!). They develop a screen-based or spatial interaction concept, and make a working prototype.

Workshop approach

The workshop is an action-packed 5-day process from 10.00 till 17.00 hours. The workshop takes place at Cinedans!
Every morning lectures and presentations bring in new ideas and knowledge. Every afternoon participants work on their own projects, coached by high level trainers, and helped by smart assistants. One special technician will be present to help realize various sensor based installation ideas.

The workshops works towards a presentation of some projects in the context of the Cinedans Festival, this final presentation will take place on Saturday July 5 between 12.00 and 13.00 hours at Rialto Movie center in Amsterdam.

Material and tools

Participants can bring up to 30 minutes of footage on FireWire harddisk, or USB stick or dvd rom, preferably as Quicktime movies. There will be the possibility to shoot footage during the workshop, to a limited extent.
Primary workshop tool will be the Korsakow System. Some ideas for sensor based installations can be realized during the workshop as well. All necessary equipment and software will be available at the workshop.

Trainers, lecturers and assistants

Florian Thalhofer, Jakob Schillinger, David Hinton, Simon Fildes, Dirk van Oosterbosch and Klaas Kuitenbrouwer.
Besides these great trainers and lecturers we have an outstanding team of highly trained and very experienced workshop assistants: Louise Berg, Amy Patton and Julieanne Mia Eason.

Participants

The workshop is designed for a maximum of 16 (dance) filmmakers, artists, video-artists, editors. Choreographers can participate if they have experience with making dance films.
Please note that workshop participants should be residents of the EU.

We have a scholarship available for someone from a new EU country.
Procedure for application: Send us an email with your motivation and CV and you will be informed if you have been selected for a scholarship.

Price

€ 420 incl. VAT
€ 300 incl. VAT (for people from new EU countries)

Registration, information and policy

You can register online with our registration form.
Please read our policy carefully!
If you have questions please contact Klaas Kuitenbrouwer or Deborah Meibergen at or by phone +31 (0) 20 638 9901

Reader

Especially for this workshop Mediamatic has compiled the Cinedans 2008 Reader which provides a valuable source of theoretical, visual and practical inspiration.