European Workshop for Film Criticism #4
The European Network for Film Discourse (The END) and short film magazine Talking Shorts are organising the 4th edition of the European Workshop for Film Criticism: two week-long workshop sessions for aspiring film critics set during the short film festivals in Dresden (April 2024) and Vienna (May/June 2024).
Both workshop units will explore short film criticism and its possibilities. In Dresden, participants will practise the fundamental elements of writing a film review, reworking the same text to push it further, and discover the work involved in film curation, whereas in Vienna, the focus will be placed on the skills required to carry out, and write, interviews of professionals in the field of short film.
In both workshops, the emphasis will be on the craft involved in writing an engaging piece of criticism. The writing process will be supervised editorially during the festivals, and a selection of the texts will be published on Talking Shorts. Anas Sareen will tutor this workshop.
The participants are Mac Andre Arboleda (PH/DK), Claudius Kesseböhmer (DE), Marcelina Leigh (NL), Daria Janke (RS/DE), Antoni Koniecszny (PO/UK) and Ebba Yttemyr (SE).
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Produced by the European Network for Film Discourse (The END) and Talking Shorts, with the support of the Creative Europe MEDIA programme.
Workshop Texts
Hito by Stephen Lopez
The Un-chaotic Cabinet That Wishes For Me To Sleep by Cilian Laurence Green
Night Shift by Kayije Kagame, Hugo Radi
The Miracle by Nienke Deutz
La Perra by Carla Melo Gampert
A Study of Empathy by Hilke Rönnfeldt
Nastia Korkia on Dreams About Putin
Alessandro Novelli on De Imperio
Nikola Ilić on Exit Through the Cuckoo’s Nest
Pavel Mozhar on Unwanted Kinship
Zima by Tomek Popakul, Kasumi Ozeki