Festival Laboratory: FestiLAB

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FestiLAB is a project that will be launched this year and continue henceforth, and covers the workshops to be organized with the participation by both native and foreign masters. On March 19, there will be a workshop under the title of “Thinking in Images” by Harun Farocki, a video phisolopher and one of the most important figures of the film industry in Germany. Within the scope of the activity to take place with the participation by Harun Farocki and to be presented by Andreas Treske, movies will be watched and image production will be talked for a day long.

Pierre Bismuth, known for deconstructing the cultural works and reconstructing them in a humoristic way, will realize a 3-day workshop on 16, 17, and 18 March. In the workshop, Bismuth who won the Oscar with Michel Gondry ve Charlie Kaufman for the film “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, will talk about editing by giving examples of the Hollywood films re-edited by him, some video works and the short film he made on “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”. And the famous American producer Sandy Lieberson will meet the movie fans on 17 March. There will be a workshop by Ufuk Önen, a composer and producer, on 13 March; and on 20 March Gerard Labady, French composer and sound designer, will realize another one on the use of sound and music in cinema.

The workshops will be held free of charge at the Goethe-Institute Ankara and the Contemporary Arts Center. For participation and detailed information, you can visit festilab@filmfestankara.org.tr

All the workshops are as follows:

1. Open Flux Workshop by Hakan Akçura
2. Workshop on “Mental Exercise for Festivals” by Hakan Aytekin
3. Workshop on “Sound and Music in Cinema” by Ufuk Önen
4. “Do You Have any Secret That You cannot Tell Anybody?” by Genco Gülan
5. Afghanistan Diaries with Dominic Morisette
6. Workshop on “Animated Cinema with Young Directors” by Berat İlk
7. Workshop on “Thinking in Images” by Harun Farocki
8. Workshop by Pierre Bismuth
9. Workshop by Sandy Lieberson
10. Workshop by Gerard Labady