H O L Y M O M E N T S
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Midway through Richard Linklater's Waking Life (2001) — a
wonderful film that is equal parts documentary, animation, philosophical
enquiry, and bildungsroman — a remarkable thing happens: Caveh Zahedi,
an experimental filmmaker, launches into an impassioned defense of André
Bazin, the French film critic most known for publishing Cahiers du
Cinema and for inspiring the careers of Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc
Godard, and eric Rohmer, among others. What most excites Zahedi is Bazin's
peculiarly Christian film aesthetic, his faith in the cinema as a medium
uniquely capable of recording and revealing God's active presence in our
lives... [B]y revealing these 'Holy Moments,' film should (though it seldom
does) reorient our perspectives not only toward the arts but also toward the
beautifully varied and complex creation in which we live.
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2004 Workshops/Seminars
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Flickerings is purposed as "hands-on," involving real participation — in
both an informed and active viewing but also the making of films. Our
growing community of film buffs, critics, and filmmakers look forward to
another exhausting-but-rewarding few days of grappling together with movies,
ideas, and each other — and also supporting one another in our ongoing
individual viewing, criticism, and filmmaking projects.
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NEW! Flickerings' Eight-Hour Film School
Join a crew of independent filmmakers working through a scene from script to
screen, with lots of discussion along the way. We'll draft participants but
interested spectators are welcome.
Three sessions :
1) Pre-Production. Establishing the crew and scenario.
2) Production. Rehearsing and shooting the scene.
3) Post. Editing and screening the scene.
Winnipeg filmmakers Bevan Klassen and Kevin Nikkel
have been instrumental in helping create and develop the vision of
Flickerings from the beginning. They'll also host our nightly Filmmakers
Only sessions in the Speaker Hospitality Trailer.
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Holy Moments: The Christian Cinephilia of André Bazin
As co-founder of Cahiers du Cinema and a key inspiration of the French
New Wave, André Bazin practically initiated worldwide film culture before
dying at the age of forty. His integrative approach to arts education, cultural
dialogue and social justice stemmed from the writings of Christian
Personalists and, according to Jean Renoir, "gave the patent of royalty to
the cinema just as the poets of the past had crowned their kings."
Doug Cummings has a BA in Media Arts and founded www.MastersofCinema.org, www.filmjourney.org, and www.robert-bresson.com. His writing has appeared in SensesofCinema.com.
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