Theorie: 2022 Documentary Summer School Locarno 

Filming the real: dramatization and performance in documentary cinema

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Nummer und TypMFI-UZH_USI.A03.22H.001 / Moduldurchführung
Modul3 ECTS, MM 
VeranstalterDepartement Darstellende Künste und Film
LeitungOrganisation: Università della Svizzera italiana mit dem Filmfestival Locarno
Zeit
Mo 8. August 2022 bis Fr 12. August 2022
5 Tage Mitte August
OrtFestival del film Locarno
Anzahl Teilnehmendemaximal 30
ECTS3 Credits
VoraussetzungenAnmeldung im ClickEnroll UND ZUSÄTZLICH an die Università della Svizzera Italiana USI: dss@usi.ch mit einem CV, einem Motivationsschreiben und Vermerk, dass ihr Netzwerk-Studierende seid.
LehrformBlockseminar (jährlich) am Film Festival Locarno
ZielgruppenFür alle Netzwerk-Studierenden (Wahl oder Wahlpflicht)
Lernziele / KompetenzenGemäss Ausschreibung UZH, Filmwissenschaft (FIWI) und Netzwerk Cinema CH
InhalteWhen talking about cinema, academic enquiry and creative practice have long been
regarded as fully distinct and disconnected forms of knowledge production and critical
reflection. In recent years, however, a growing number of hybrid projects has emerged
that showed the potential for mutual benefit deriving from bridging the academic and
filmmaking experiences. Following in this promising terrain, the 2022 Documentary
Summer School (8-12 August 2022) wants to foster dialogue and encourage synergies
between the academic and filmmaking communities.
Academics and documentarists often share the use of similar approaches and methods
in their research work and artistic production, spurred by, among other factors, the
widespread adoption of digital technologies in both filmmaking, and research and
education. Researchers ever more often produce scientific outputs that differ from the
traditional text-based formats, such as, for example, artistic performances, video-essays,
and exhibitions. At the same time, numerous filmmakers and video artists contribute to
advance, in creative yet rigorous ways, some of the most fundamental questions
confronting film studies scholars. For these reasons, the 2022 Documentary Summer
School focuses on theoretical and practical questions pertaining both to the study and
creation of non-fiction cinema.
The DSS brings together partecipants with an academic and/or a filmmaking background
and invites them to exchange best practices and collaboratively reflect on one of the most fundamental themes in documentary cinema: “Filming the real: dramatization and
performance in documentary cinema”. The issues that will be addressed during the
DSS include:
• Genres and boundaries in (non)fiction cinema
• Dramatization of reality
• Performance in documentary cinema
• People, characters and persona in documentary cinema

Established 23 years ago as a joint initiative between the Institute of Media and Journalism of the Università della Svizzera italiana and the Locarno Film Festival, in collaboration with La Semaine de la Critique, the DSS offers to its participants a unique platform to meet and learn from high-profile international film scholars and non-fiction filmmakers and representatives of film institutions, all while enjoying the vibrant atmosphere of one of the top film festivals in the world. The DSS programme entails five half-days of lectures,coupled with screenings of films selected in the Semaine de la Critique section and participation to masterclasses and events of the Locarno Academy.

Faculty
The DSS faculty is composed by international film scholars and film practitioners,
including filmmakers selected in the Semaine de la Critique section.

Cristina Formenti is Assistant Professor in Film Studies at University of Udine. She is
the author of Il mockumentary: la fiction si maschera da documentario (Mimesis 2013)
and The Classical Animated Documentary and Its Contemporary Evolution (Bloomsbury
2022) as well as editor of Mariangela Melato tra cinema, teatro e televisione (Mimesis
2016) and Valentina Cortese: una diva intermediale (Mimesis 2018). She is co-editor of
the journal Animation Studies and serves on the board of the Society for Animation
Studies, where she co-founded the Documentary Special Interest Group.

Andrea Segre is an award-winner Italian filmmaker who has directed over twenty films
of documentary and fiction genre, among which: Shun Li and the Poet (Lux Prize 2012),
Ibi (2017),Venetian Molecules (2020) and Welcome Venice (2021), the latter shot during
the Covid pandemic. Andrea is co-founder of ZaLab, a video production and distribution
organization, which promotes participatory filmmaking as a means for social inclusion.
He holds a PhD in Sociology of communication from the University of Bologna.

Till Brockmann is the head of Semaine de la Critique, an independent section of the
Locarno Film Festival, organized by the Swiss Association of Film Journalists, which
presents seven international documentaries, with five world premieres and two
international premieres. Till has worked as a film journalist and film critic since 1995,
mostly for the Swiss daily newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Till also has vast
experience as a lecturer in film studies, as well as a curator for institutions such as the
Heritage Film Festival for the Goethe-Institut Gulf Region in Abu Dhabi.
Leistungsnachweis / TestatanforderungTheorie Master Film ZHdK im Netzwerk mit Filmwissenschaft UZH und USI:

Total 15 ECTS (Pflicht)
_1 Kolloquium FS 1. Semester: 6 ECTS
_1 Kolloquium FS 3. Semester : 6 ECTS
_1 Werkstattgespräch 3 ECTS (Wahlpflicht, findet jedes Semester statt)
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_1 Locarno Summer Academy in Kooperation mit USI 3 ECTS
Termine08.08.-12.08.2022 in Locarno

How to participate
The DSS takes place from Monday 8th to Friday 12th of August 2022 in Locarno.
It is open to 30 participants among:
• university and film school students
• early PhD students
• emerging filmmakers
The participation fee is of 550 CHF, inclusive of:
• Lectures
• Exclusive Q&A sessions with filmmakers from La semaine de la critique
• Participation to Masterclasses and Locarno academy events
• Bed and breakfast accommodation for 7 nights in shared room (two and three-beds
rooms), at the Locarno Youth Hostel from Sunday 7th to Sunday 14th August 2022
• Locarno Film Festival accreditation
• Closing dinner with Locarno academy participants
• Certificate of attendance
Meals other than breakfasts and travel to and from Locarno are at the expense of
participants.
Dauer5 Tage
Bewertungsformbestanden / nicht bestanden
BemerkungAls Filmstudierende im Netzwerk Cinema.ch könnt ihr die Summer School im Rahmen des Film Festival Locarno als Alternative oder zusätzlich zum Werkstattgespräch an der UZH besuchen.
Kosten müssen selber übernommen werden.
Auch für die Summer School muss im Anschluss eine schriftliche Arbeit eingereicht werden.