VR Installation
Friday 19 July 10:00–17:00 (Presentation 10:00-10:20, followed by VR experience throughout the day)
Please note that it will essential to book a slot for the VR experience at the conference.
Please note that it will essential to book a slot for the VR experience at the conference.
Development Lab
Richard Ramchurn
A Place for Everyone
A Place for Everyone
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"A Place for Everyone" pushes the boundaries of traditional VR filmmaking. Through the measurement of viewers' brain activity, the visual and audio elements dynamically adapt, crafting a personalised trajectory of fear. Additionally, actors' performances are volumetrically captured, imbuing the experience with haunting, fragmentary, and intimate qualities. "A Place for Everyone" is an adaptive exploration of a possible future. Here, themes of climate, survival, and morality intertwine, leaving viewers with a haunting reflection on the fragility of our shared existence.
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Richard Ramchurn is an innovative director and creative technologist renowned for pushing the boundaries of interactive storytelling. As the founder and driving force behind AlbinoMosquito Productions Ltd., Richard has carved out a unique niche at the intersection of art, technology, and narrative. With a background in visual arts and human-computer interaction, he brings a multidisciplinary approach to his work, seamlessly blending academic rigor with artistic vision.
Workshop 1
Friday 19 July 11:30-12:20
Digital Media & Performance Lab (DMPL)
Rodrigo Morales
Janacek Academy of Performing Arts, Czech republic
CINEINTERESPACIO AND COMPOSING FILM
Janacek Academy of Performing Arts, Czech republic
CINEINTERESPACIO AND COMPOSING FILM
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Morales’ workshop that arises from his own cinematographic experience. Experimental poetry as a fundamental part of fiction cinema. It will show a fragment(s) of his own work through the world. He will present his own concept of Cinema Interespacio. The important thing is not to become a victim of film production clichés and false aestheticizing stereotypes. The workshop is also about the strategic importance of composing the film instead of editing.
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Rodrigo Morales is a Czech-international director. He considers film Visualization (1997, 35mm), an experimental feature film shot in five eastern european countries, to be his most significant work. He presented his experimental film Amaranta in The Czech Centre in Paris in 2023. He makes documentary films and multimedia performances . He worked as film teacher at FAMU in Prague, at AGRFT in Ljubljana, Academia di Belle Arti in Palermo, the Universidad de Granada, etc . He works at Multimedia Creation and Composing department of HF JAMU in Brno, and other Czech universities He lives between Prague and Brno.
Workshop 2
Friday 19 July 12:30-13:00
Digital Media & Performance Lab (DMPL)
Hana Slavíková
Janacek Academy of Performing Arts, Czech republic
Performative essay as the basis for an experimental feature film
Janacek Academy of Performing Arts, Czech republic
Performative essay as the basis for an experimental feature film
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Hana Slavíková focuses her workshop on finding out information about a specific situation/event/personality on a documentary level. Instead of arranging them into a classically structured form, she creates islands of emotionally and rationally relevant messages on an intuitive principle. Works with them in a metaphorical and essayistic way. Grasps them performatively and lets them affect the recipient through her voice, expression, objects, photographs, film fragments, and sounds. The elements of the future film narrative then form the core of a film script/vision of a different quality
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Hana Slavíková: scriptwriter and dramaturg, she maps the boundaries between documentary, feature film, performance, and visual art. Head of the Department of Dramaturgy and Scriptwriting at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts focuses on AR in the context of unusual narrative perspectives, including the books Czechoslovak Film of the 1960s: Intersections with the New Wave, Franz Cap: Director of Internal and External Emigration, Cine Teatro Saura: Carlos Saura's Film Experiments. Currently working on the method of the performative essay, exploring the collaboration between Tonino Guerra and Andrei Tarkovsky in the project Tempo di Viaggio nel Tempo.
Workshop 3
Friday 19 July 13:15-13:45
Digital Media & Performance Lab (DMPL)
Enrico Piffer
The reworking of cultural memory.
The reworking of cultural memory.
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Aiming to rethink the metaphors revolving around obsolete medium, and the narratives and forms that might emerge from it, this workshop will showcase a series of techniques aiming to rework photographic slides, and discuss the combination between obsolete media with digital formats.
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Enrico Piffer is a Brazilian filmmaker based in Rotterdam. Enrico's work revolves around the rethinking and repurposing of found photography, questioning what narratives and filmic forms might emerge from the combination of obsolete medium and the digital format. Through practical research, Enrico has developed several techniques, processes and methods to rework and find a new space for a 1000 lost photograph archival.
Workshop 4
Friday 19 July 14:00-15:00
Digital Media & Performance Lab (DMPL)
Adonia Bouchehri
Only Machines Can See The Egg (Screening) and Wolf Fiction (Performance)
Only Machines Can See The Egg (Screening) and Wolf Fiction (Performance)
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Adonia Bouchehri is presenting a film that re-animates Virginia Woolf and Clarice Lispector from Al-generated images. Taking its title from a short story by Lispector, Only Machines Can See The Egg stages an imagined dialogue between the two authors about their newfound existence as ghosts, raising questions about how we value the body in an era of artificial intelligence. Furthermore, Adonia will be presenting a live performance titled “Wolf Fiction,” which explores the contradictory nature of the wolf. The performance delves into the wolf as a symbol of both fear and darkness on one hand, and majesty and spirituality on the other. It speaks to how humans tend to fictionalize their relationship with the natural world, thereby creating multifaceted layers of meaning.
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Adonia Bouchehri is a London-based artist with a particular interest in how we inhabit spaces, moving between the digital and physical, the imagined and the remembered, and how these experiences impact our bodies and imaginations. In her work, Adonia investigates how the images we live with and grow up with affect our bodies and ways of perceiving lived realities, and how these experiences shape our perception and imagination of ourselves in the world. Adonia has exhibited her work both in the UK and internationally, with recent notable exhibitions including The Whitehouse in Tokyo, Japan, the 66th and 64th London Film Festivals, The Scottish Royal Academy in Edinburgh, Videoex in Switzerland, B3 Biennial of the Moving Image in Frankfurt, MUTEK in Montreal, and the Goethe Institut in Toronto. She was selected for the 2020/2021 FLAMIN Fellowship.
