PLATFORMAVIDEO9

MY OWN ACROPOLIS experimental workshop 2009 is a 4 days of work sessions and masterclasses exploring new methods of creating a video documentary based on a common sense process. The workshop’s  activities involve the shooting, processing and final presentation of the festival's making of by a team of cinema students from European countries.

The theme of this year MY OWN ACROPOLIS workshop is Cultural Life in my city through remix. Inspired from the idea of the remix culture, each student must create, prior to his arrival at the workshop, a 30sec video, experimenting with digital remixing. In combination with all the material recorded during the Festival and the knowledge acquired from the master classes, the students will produce a final 15min documentary to be presented at the closing day of the Festival.

*Remix culture is a term employed by Lawrence Lessing and other copyright activists to describe a society which allows and encourages derivative works.

In the framework of the media literacy programmes of PLATFORMA VIDEO9 a series of seminars are planned in the premises of the festival.


Thursday 3.6.2009
18:00 Cinemateque
An introduction to editing
The workshop is focused on a historical review of editing techniques, examining different “historical” schools such as the classic, the soviet and the avant guarde, reinvestigating at the same time the role of editing in each one of them. Moreover, the key role of the editor in producing a fiction film, his/hers relation to the film director will be analyzed, thus demonstrating the significant contribution of editing to the final result and its importance to the overall film production.
George Mavropsaridis


Friday  4.12.2009
15:00 Cinemateque
Interactive art as a result of collaboration: the example of e-MobiLArt
The presentation concentrates on the collaborative process leading to the production of interactive artworks focusing on the example of e-MobiLArt (European Mobile Lab for Interactive Media Artists). The latter is a project for the promotion of mobility and creative collaboration of artists and scientists mainly from European countries, for the creation of interactive artworks and installations.
Dimitris Charitos


Friday 4.12.2009
17:00 Main
Going Big: shorts grown feature

Short and feature films. A trading division. The seminar’s discussion will be on the different real challenges arising from the passage of a filmmaker in the feature film.
Alexandros Voulgaris

Sunday 6.12.2009
14:00 Main
Women Making Docs

An innovative presentation by the doc guerilla from Israel that portrays a radical and rather unexpected approach of women onto contemporary European and international documentary language. 
Ibtisam Mara’ana