Cine Sin Autor: Collectivity Politics

Topics for the debate:

• History and Politics of Cinema.
• Social Dynamics of the Cinematographic Image.
• Centralization and Decentralization of Medium and Production Knowledge Property through Time.
• Current Situation and Paradigm Shift of Cinematography.
• Audiovisual Action in the New Net Society.

Working Rules for the Sessions:

• The different types of knowledge are equal in value.
• It is not required to hold a specific or professional knowledge, every kind of knowledge is useful, they all help build knowledge and can enable action. However, it is essential is to have the desire to think and to be open to the possibility of filmmaking under other parameters.
• In each session there will be a series of proposals and materials that will be dealt with in accordance with the development of the session, instead of following a fixed order.
• We will expand on the issues that turn out to be the most interesting and most formative, without any pressure to get to the following topics.
• These encounters are thought as preparation for cinematographical action, as a kind of reunion to motivate a filmic project that could be directed by each one of the participants.
• We initially propose four sessions, however the group will decide on how many sessions will follow these initial meetings, according to its own interests.

Exercise 1. Particular Cinematographic Methodologies:

We shall think of the group as a production team that has the possibility to “make a film” someplace far from their living places.

We will have two questions in mind:
-What would it mean for each one of us to “make a film in an unknown territory”?
-What methodology would each of the participants use in the process?


Concept to debate on:

Collectivity Politics in the broader frame of Film History. Induction readings on the Cine Sin Autor blog, where material elaborated over the last years will be available. We recommend the following links:
- Los segundos orígenes del cine. ¡Organizarnos!
- Tres políticas y tres subjetividades del cine. Hacia una “política de la colectividad”
- Real Política de la Colectividad... del cine. Sobre otras cuestiones de espacio y tiempo

 
Screenings: An Approach to the Three Forerunning Experiences of a Collectivized Cinema

We suggest online researches on cinema:
a) Jorge Sanjinés
b) Peter Watkins and the Proyecto Video in Brazilian villages.

If we have enough time, we will analyze certain film scenes, which we will facilitate. We will also have screenings of some of the Cine Sin Autor collective’s filmic documents.

Register to join the group before December 31, 2011. More information: laboratorio-procomun(at)medialab-prado.es