Welcome to the practical film course at the MFA in Film at HDK-Valand!

See the Course summary at the bottom of this page or the official schedule in TimeEdit for the first course date and time. Due to the current Covid19 situation, this course will be conducted online until further notice. 

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To be considered a student, you must be registered on your course. You must also be registered to be able access all course material published in Canvas. Here you can find the detailed Course Guide. You can register the week before the start of the course via Ladok services. If you have problems with the registration or questions about your studies please contact admission@hdk-valand.gu.se. 

Course content: 

Intensives

The MAFI11 H21 Practical Course is interwoven with the MAFI12 H21 Reflection Course, and will conducted through individual assignments, seminars, workshops and group discussions that are organised in what we call 'intensives', intensive weeks of study. Each 'intensive' revolves around a specific theoretical and practical proposition. Aside these intensives you will be asked to conduct individual learning. 

During this course, existing film material, ones own and others, is processed and discussed, based on thematic and temporal aspects. Central to the course are: (1) Criticality in relation to societal and theoretical issues and propositions. What does it mean to use cinematic methods to explore those societal and theoretical issues and propositions? (2) Archive, the personal archive, and archiving of film material. The distinguishing and defining inquiries in and through cinema. (3) Distinguishing and defining inquiries in and through cinema in ones own practice, departing from your (continuous) making proces.

The course aims to develop competencies with moving images’ expressive possibilities. In addition, this course provides the structure for continued examination and reflection of one’s own artistic approach(es)

Course staff:

Programme Director:

Jyoti Mistry

Course leader:

Mirka Duijn:                                                 mirka.duijn@gu.se

Participating teachers

Mirka Duijn                                                  mirka.duijn@gu.se

Jyoti Mistry                                                  jyoti.mistry@akademinvaland.gu.se

Ram Krishna Ranjan                                    ram.ranjan@akademinvaland.gu.se

Guest teachers: TBA

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