[Reader-list] [Announcements] DIGITAL VIDEO MASTERCLASS - deadline extension

[Iram Ghufran]

Application Deadline EXTENDED to May 07, 2007

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR DIGITAL VIDEO MASTERCLASS
with Kabir Mohanty (Video Artist and Filmmaker)
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A reflective workshop focusing on the role of the practitioner as composer
and instrumentalist of all of aspects of video - shooting, recording and
editing. A personalized masterclass with the video artist and filmmaker
Kabir Mohanty.

"...I have tried over these years to find ways of creating a palette of
certain keys to shooting video. It seems two stages of working with the
moving image are important. The first is everything that leads up to the
shoot and including the act of shooting. The second is post-shooting.

The first workshop I held at Sarai in 2005 dealt with the first stage. This
one deals primarily though not exclusively with the second stage. However,
this separation of stages is within one person. That is, it is one person's
work. It also means we could go from edited material to how one is
shooting. The workshop does not create the context of professional editors
or sound designers that work on others' material, yet attempts to imbibe
that rigour, because one has also lived those vocations. We shall look at
edited material closely, and treat sound recording in its fundamentals. I
imagine acoustics being brought in simply and we shall use Robert Bresson's
"Notes on the Cinematographer" and Michel Chion's "Audio Vision" as keys to
thinking about sound..."
(From Kabir Mohanty's Statement introducing the Workshop)

For More Details about the Workshop and the full text of Kabir Mohanty's
introductory text - see -

http://www.sarai.net/about-us/events/workshops/video-masterclass

DURATION
Four weeks, July 2-28, 2007. Final screening July 29th, Sunday.
Workshop meetings on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday.
All meetings 4-8 pm unless otherwise noted.

PLACES AVAILABLE
There are 9 Places available for this intensive workshop. Of these 7 will
be devoted to the practitioners (people with some prior knowledge of the
moving image). These 7 will complete at least one short video during the
workshop.2 places are reserved for people who reflect on the practice of
the moving image (like 'rasikas' in music) and who can help the group take
their thinking forward.

SUBMISSION DETAILS
For the 7 practitioners - 30 minutes of solidly shot un-edited video
material. If someone does not have material ready to edit then the workshop
coordinator may consider submission of rushes from previously shot material
that the applicant may want to re-edit/re-visit.

For the 2 rasikas - a long written piece that demonstrates interest in 
thinking about the moving image. A curriculum vitae.

SEND TO
Digital Video Image Masterclass
Sarai CSDS
29 Rajpur Road
Delhi 110054

E MAIL ENQUIRIES
If you have e mail enquiries about this workshop, write to Iram Ghufran,
Media Lab Sarai-CSDS <iram at sarai.net>

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
All applicants should submit a page on their involvement with the moving 
image, their backgrounds. Very often this helps in a one-on-one engagement
within a small group.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION
Video material on dvd and written material printed out, in Sarai by May 7th.
Participants will be notified by May 15th.
Workshop fees should be paid to Sarai, 100 % in advance by June 1st.

EQUIPMENT RESERVED FOR THE WORKSHOP
One computer with editing software for image and sound.
A camera with a microphone.
For a period a DAT recorder with a professional microphone.

WORKSHOP FEES
Rs.7,500 per person for the 7 'practitioners'. The 2 'rasikas' fee is
Rs.2,500 per person

ABOUT KABIR MOHANTY
(Adapted from the catalogue for 'Song for an Ancient Land', Solo Show, 
Gallery SKYE, Bangalore, October 29-Dec 2, 2006.)

Kabir Mohanty has been working in both film and video for some time now and
has  made about ten films and videos. Most of his work has been shown in
film and video festivals in India and abroad including Oberhausen,
Rotterdam, Torino, Hawaii, World Wide Video Festival Amsterdam and
Bombay.He has also have been part of art shows like Sidewinder, which was a
residency cum exhibition, hosted by CIMA in 2001-02 where he showed a short
fiction film, titled - "and now i feel i don't know anything".He has also
been part of a show on the tradition of experimentation in Indian film and
video starting with Dadasaheb Phalke, titled Cinema of Prayoga, which has
been shown at the Tate Modern, London

His training was at the University of Iowa where he obtained a masters in
filmmaking in 1986. His teachers included the great filmmaker Leighton
Pierce and film theorist Dudley Andrew, author of Major Film Theories, both
full-time faculty at Iowa.Over the years he has received international
grants and production awards in the form of the Hubert Bals Fund, Rotterdam
Film Festival, the Fond Sud Award from the Ministry of External Affairs,
France, an individual artist grant from the Prince Claus Fund, Netherlands
and a collaboration grant with sound designer, Vikram Joglekar from the
India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore. From September 2002 till June
2004, Mohanty was a Visiting Artist in the Department of Art, UCLA, and in
residence for half that period.

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