scholarly journals Cinema en curs: Transmission of film as creation and creation as experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Núria Aidelman Feldman ◽  
Laia Colell Aparicio

This article – initially published in Spanish by Toma Uno in 2012 – explores the Catalonian project Cinema en curs, an annual, recurring and now international programme of film education that takes place with students aged 10–18 in schools and colleges. First detailing both the rationale and methodology motivating the project, the article goes on to discuss core aspects of the approach of Cinema en curs: the Lumière minutes exercise and the short films which serve as the culmination of students’ work on the project. In doing so, the article also explores the value of approaches to film education that help learners develop an appreciation of their own lived experiences and the places in which they live. A new introduction from the authors places the article’s discussion of Cinema en curs in a contemporary context.

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-39
Author(s):  
Mirja Karjalainen-Väkevä ◽  
Sara Sintonen

Nuorten elämään liittyy vahvasti audiovisuaalinen media eri muodoissa. Omien teosten tekeminen ja niiden jakaminen ovat helpottuneet digitalisaation ja sosiaalisen median myötä, mutta millaisia audiovisuaalisen kerronnan keinoja nykypäivän yläkoululaisilla on käytössään? Perusopetuksen opetussuunnitelman perusteissa monilukutaito määritellään eri muodoissa olevien viestien tuottamisen, tulkitsemisen ja kriittisen arvioinnin taidoksi.Tässä artikkelissa tarkastelemme, millaisia audiovisuaalisia kerronnan keinoja seitsemäsluokkalaiset käyttävät koulun musiikin tunneilla tehdyissä lyhytelokuvissa, ja pohdimme, miten lyhytelokuvien tekeminen voidaan nähdä osana monilukutaidon tukemista. Yleisesti ottaen oppilailla on kykyjä käyttää erilaisia kerronnan keinoja, joskin oppilaiden itse tekemistä lyhytelokuvista osa sisältää paljon erilaisia audiovisuaalisen kerronnan keinoja, kun taas osassa keinovalikoima on suppea kaikilla kerronnan osa-alueilla.Monilukutaidon pedagogiikan mukaan monilukutaidon prosessissa edetään omien kokemusten jakamisen, teoretisoinnin ja ohjauksen kautta kohti uusintavaa käytäntöä. Omien kokemusten ja merkitysten jakaminen yhteisöllisesti ja toisaalta niiden asettaminen laajempaan viitekehykseen mahdollistavat sen, että oppilaat voivat kukin kehittyä omista lähtökohdistaan. Lyhytelokuvien tekemisen ja audiovisuaalisten kerronnan keinojen erittelemisen kautta voidaan tarjota oppilaille tilaisuus kehittyä audiovisuaalisen kerronnan keinojen käyttämisessä, ymmärtämisessä ja niiden kriittisessä arvioinnissa.Avainsanat: monilukutaito, audiovisuaalinen viestintä, peruskoulu, musiikkikasvatus, mediakasvatus, elokuvakasvatusCase study on audiovisual storytelling of 7th grade students’ short films made during music lessonsDigitalization and social media have increased and made it easier to make and share one’s own audiovisual products, but what exactly do we know about young people’s audiovisual storytelling? In the Finnish National Core Curriculum, multiliteracy is defined as an ability to produce, interpret, and critically evaluate texts in various forms.The purpose of this article is to explore what modes and forms of audiovisual storytelling the 7th graders use in their self-made digital short films and how the making of short movies can be seen as a way of promoting students’ multiliteracies. The students have the capacity for audiovisual storytelling although storytelling varies a lot between self-made short films. Some of them include various forms of storytelling while the storytelling is limited in others.According to the pedagogy of multiliteracies, learning is a process in which learners proceed from experience to conceptualization, analysis, and to finally applying new practices. Students proceed from their own standpoints while they share their own experiences in collaborative making processes and learn to analyze and conceptualize their works. By making short films and conceptualizing audiovisual storytelling students can be promoted in multiliteracies.Keywords: multiliteracies, audiovisual storytelling, comprehensive school, secondary school, music education, media education, film education


2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 557-583
Author(s):  
Dong Sung Kim

Abstract In this article, I read the story of Jephthah and his daughter in Judges 10–12 within the contemporary context of racism and discrimination in the U.S. Particularly focusing on the affective and emotional dimensions of the lived experiences in racially/ethnically minoritized communities, I engage the biblical story with what poet and writer Cathy Park Hong calls, “minor feelings.” Reading the biblical narrative alongside Hong’s crudely personal—and yet pervasively common—accounts of Asian American racial trauma, I critically reflect on the notion of childhood agency, and suggest that the Western conception of agency neither reflects nor promotes the lives of the children in minority groups. In turn, I ask: What if we moved away from the traditional notions of agency and voice in our critical works, and, instead, turned towards emotions, sensations, and other embodied experiences as a site of interpretation, critique, and movement for social change?


2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacey L. Barrenger ◽  
Emily K. Hamovitch ◽  
Melissa R. Rothman

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica A. Chen ◽  
Hollie Granato ◽  
Jillian C. Shipherd ◽  
Tracy Simpson ◽  
Keren Lehavot

Author(s):  
C. Claire Thomson

The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational film, this book traces how Danish shorts on topics including social welfare, industry, art and architecture were commissioned, funded, produced and reviewed from the inter-war period to the 1960s. For three decades, state-sponsored short filmmaking educated Danish citizens, promoted Denmark to the world, and shaped the careers of renowned directors like Carl Th. Dreyer. Examining the life cycle of a representative selection of films, and discussing their preservation and mediation in the digital age, this book presents a detailed case study of how informational cinema is shaped by, and indeed shapes, its cultural, political and technological contexts.The book combines close textual analysis of a broad range of films with detailed accounts of their commissioning, production, distribution and reception in Denmark and abroad, drawing on Actor-Network Theory to emphasise the role of a wide range of entities in these processes. It considers a broad range of genres and sub-genres, including industrial process films, public information films, art films, the city symphony, the essay film, and many more. It also maps international networks of informational and documentary films in the post-war period, and explores the role of informational film in Danish cultural and political history.


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