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Deep Focus is the interactive and hands-on track at Flickerings, designed to draw
participants into direct engagement with the films and filmmakers, and also
into making films themselves. Once again, this series of seminars, workshops
and informal gatherings will facilitated during the 2003 Cornerstone Festival
(July 2-5) by Bevan Klassen and Kevin Nikkel of the
Winnipeg's Catacomb microCinema.
NEW IN 2003!!: This year, Deep Focus at Flickerings expands on a new front,
with new film Critics' Roundtable sessions sponsored by the Promontory Film Critics Circle. Jeffrey Overstreet (who
writes Christianity Today's weekly online "Film Forum" column), along
with fellow PFCC critics including J. Robert Parks, Matthew Prins and Mike
Leary, will join the discussion after select screenings and lead special
panel discussions.
THE SEMINARS
This year, we'll be engaging with the Dogme '95
challenge both in our screenings of
select Dogma Films, but also in afternoon seminars which will explore the
history and implications of the Dogma idea and discuss what it means to
pursue truth in cinema. The first seminar, "Dogma For Beginners: Spirit &
Letter" will introduce attendees to this controversial and influential film
movement out of Denmark, with special attention to co-founder Lars von Trier,
and follow the explosive results of this brash challenge to filmmakers. The
second session, "Flickerings Dogma: Confessions & Vows," will seek to raise
questions of how we may benefit as a community of filmmakers and as
individuals, by some personal applications of the spirit of Dogma. (We've put together
our own mildly tongue-in-cheek "Flickerings Dogma" to start the discussion.)
IMPROV WORKSHOP
Last year, we had a tremendous time putting our ideas into action every
afternoon by sending attendees off to make their own films together, and then
sharing and discussing the results with one another. This year, we're going
to consider how some of the ideas of the bare-bones Dogma challenge can be
brought to bear on the process of creating improvisational films during the festival.
FILMMAKERS ONLY
One of the most exciting aspects of Flickerings is the opportunities for
filmmakers to gather informally, encouraging one another, telling war
stories, sharing ideas and generally schmoozing. Our late night "Filmmaker
Only" sessions will return this year, held once again in the festival's
Speaker Hospitality Trailer. Here's an opportunity to share experiences and
work-in-progress, make connections, get advice on your project, and continue
the exciting task of creating a filmmaking culture at Cornerstone.
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