Workshops
Workshops
Workshop on Archival Practices in Film:
ARCHIVES IMAGINED
The workshop will take place from 15 to 19 August 2024, during the 15.MakeDox festival in Skopje.
Aim of the Workshop:
The workshop aims to bring together 4 carefully chosen directors or filmmaking teams (director and editor). Its primary focus is on identifying different strategies and possibilities for visually conceptualizing archives, broadening the creative scope of filmmaking. Through this intensive collective experience, we will hopefully initiate a process of getting closer to the core of each film project, discussing the diverse potential approaches for each film working with archival images.
Biographies of the mentors:
Kumjana Novakova
Kumjana Novakova is a research-based filmmaker working also as a film curator and lecturer.
Originally born in Yugoslavia, Kumjana has worked in the field of film and arts since 2006. Her formal education combines international relations, cultural and social research studies in Sofia, Sarajevo, Bologna and Amsterdam.
As an author, Kumjana explores the languages of cinema researching relationships related to power, war, memories and (un)belonging. She is interested in developing strategies of creating meaning from the position of filmmaking, and its potentialities as a territory of new collectivities. Her work has been shown and exhibited across the world.
Her film Disturbed Earth (co-directed with G.C. Candi) has been shortlisted for the Academy Awards. Her last film Silence of Reason, currently in distribution, has been presented at the MoMA, IDFA, HotDocs, Cinema du Reel, and has won numerous awards including Best Directing Award in the Envision competition at the 2023 IDFA Festival, Grand Prix at Punto de Vista, Best International Film at Cinema du Reel, Heart of Sarajevo for Human Rights in Documentary Film, etc.
Kumjana has been teaching cinema as an associate lecturer at film.factory of Bela Tarr in Sarajevo, ESCAC School of Cinema, Spain and the MA in Film Research of the Netherlands Film Academy.
Kumjana currently lives between Sarajevo and Skopje.
Vlad Petri
Vlad Petri is a filmmaker with a keen interest in political and social subjects. He has a BA in Cinematography (Bucharest, University of Cinema and Theatre) and a MA in Visual Anthropology (Berlin, Freie Universitat).
As a filmmaker he often incorporates personal images alongside official archives to create films that blur the line between documentary and fiction. His debut work Where Are You Bucharest? had its premiere at Rotterdam International Film Festival. His second feature Between Revolutions had its premiere in the Forum section of the Berlin Film Festival, where it achieved the prestigious FIPRESCI Award and earned selections and awards in more than 100 festivals worldwide. Besides his feature films, Petri has also directed several shorts that have been screened and awarded at various festivals.
He has been teaching cinema in different workshops and film schools in Romania and abroad: EICTV Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba, “Let’s Go Digital” at Transilvania Film Festival TIFF, Cluj, Romania, “Focus Atelier”, Cluj, Romania, “Ideo Ideis”, Alexandria, Romania.
Vlad currently lives in Bucharest, Romania.
Selected projects:
- FORGET ME NOT / Slovenia
- JOURNEY… FAR AWAY FROM AFRICA / Romania
- THE GODS MUST BE MISTAKEN / Slovenia, Germany, Italy, Croatia
- WE HID EVERYTHING IMPORTANT!/ Croatia
FORGET ME NOT
Country: Slovenia
Director: Anja Medved
Editor: Anja Medved, Neli Maraž
Production Companies: KINOkašča/CINEMattic
A journey into the past of my home town situated on the Slovene – Italian border searching for memories my grandma didn’t tell me.
JOURNEY… FAR AWAY FROM AFRICA
Country: Romania
Director: Răzvan Marchiș
Editor: Răzvan Marchiș
Production Companies: Servia Film
Between 1971 and 1973 Traian Cocoș was detached from his job by the Romanian Government, together with a group of other specialists, in Zambia, to prospect and map the different mineral deposits in the newly declared republic. In March 1972, the same day that the Romanian delegation led by Ceaușescu made its official visit to Zambia, Traian Cocoș was delivered his 8mm camera and started documenting his journey with the important visit of the head of state.
THE GODS MUST BE MISTAKEN
Country: Slovenia, Germany, Italy, Croatia
Director: Jakob Krese
Editor: Annika Mayer
Production Company: POTEM
A Yugoslav family reflects on over half a century of upheaval, hope, destruction and new beginnings. A dialogue about missing gods, an end that is not, the necessity to never give up and the price that must be born.
WE HID EVERYTHING IMPORTANT!
Country: Croatia
Director: Karla Crnčević
Editorr: Karla Crnčević
Production Companies:
We Hid Everything That Important! is an experimental documentary film that tells the story of the resistance movement formed by women within the anti-fascist struggle in former Yugoslavia. The film, divided into different chapters, explores various phases of resistance – from its beginnings and foundations to the reasons for its demolition. It focuses on how the movement is documented and archived, how it is preserved in institutions and lives among us, and examines collective and individual spaces of memory and storytelling, or their gaps, voids, and silences.