FILM THE LANDSCAPE
SHOOTING THE LANDSCAPE
DURATION: 2 WEEKS
International Film Research Residency - Sete Cidades, São Miguel (Azores, Portugal)
Introduction
“Film the landscape?” it will be the interrogation of origin and the detonator of creation processes based on the cinematographic language that we propose to explore in this residency.
Filming the landscape is always filming yourself, filming yourself through the landscape, looking for echoes of what we are in the world. Filming the landscape will always be the affirmation of a point of view from which the vision of the world is organized and in it the relationship between the one who sees and the world he sees and in which he participates. Filming the landscape is understood here as a primary gesture, insofar as it represents our relationship with what surrounds us, our way of being in the world. In this impulse, essential questions appear to the cinematographic gaze: finding or being found by the place from which one sees and is filmed, establishing the right distance with what is filmed, deciding or feeling the desire to move, transit, dislocate. whether in space or, on the contrary, building its dimensions from a fixed point, establishing the relationships, fragile and often changing, between the background and the figure that stands out against it...
All these are essential questions that cross the documentary aesthetics. Questions that are at its foundations, which in finished works can even go unnoticed, but all of them essential to be able to convey what is truly meant by the work, its deepest truth.
In the residence we propose, the landscape is at the center, precisely to allow us to fix, deepen, search and find in these questions the bases, the paths and even the gaps of our own looks. In S. Miguel this process is especially intense. Here, the relationship with the landscape is strong and is a central element of everyday experience, the one in relation to which the rest is named and organized, the one capable of changing days and dragging thoughts. Channeling this force into the creative process and experimenting with creating from it is our proposal.
Work group
The working group will consist of 6 participants and a residency coordination team. This group of people will live together in a house inserted in the landscape from which they will work - Sete Cidades, S. Miguel, Azores, Portugal.
Dynamics
The dynamics of the residency will be determined according to the participants and their projects. There will be moments of viewing and discussion of films and other referents; presentation and discussion of each one's projects in groups and individually with the residency coordinators; there will be moments of filming and viewing of the filmed material, as well as discussion and work based on these filming experiences. The filming/editing will follow in parallel with the writing and organization of ideas from the beginning of the residency until the end. All the work will be lived intensely, without breaks, during the 2 weeks.
Requirements
This residency is aimed at creators who have already carried out some work in the field of audiovisual creation, essentially in documentary cinema but not exclusively, and who are interested in working from their personal relationship with reality and with landscape in particular.
Each participant must have autonomy in terms of equipment and master their work tools, from capturing images and sounds to assembly. You won't need very specific or advanced equipment, but equipment that everyone can master and feel comfortable with.
