05.07 > 11.07

Filmmakers have thousands of secrets, ZOMERFILMCOLLEGE lets you in on them!

ZOMERFILMCOLLEGE offers a week of in-depth lectures by internationally renowned critics and academics, Q&As with filmmakers and screenings of both original 35mm prints and recent digital restorations.

PRACTICAL INFO

Location: De Cinema, Maarschalk Gerardstraat 4, 2000 Antwerp
Programme & Tickets: www.cinea.be

Accreditations for the full or one of the two programmes are available through the website of Cinea. Separate tickets will be released in the week of 15 June.

HEARTS OF THE WORLD: GLOBAL FLOWS OF MELODRAMA

Melodrama has existed in moving images from the beginning of film history; in the 130 years that followed, it has spread across the entire globe. And yet nobody seems to agree on its definition. Melodrama is best understood not as a fixed genre but as a bundle of elements—such as pathos, heightened emotionality and nonclassical narration—in shifting configurations.

The lectures and screenings in this programme demonstrate how melodrama’s versatility allowed it to travel the world—to Latin America, the Arab world, South and East Asia—and to weather time, aligning universal emotions like love, loyalty and desire with particular historical forces wherever and whenever it emerged.

Guest speakers for this programme strand are Professor Ben Singer (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Dr. Viola Shafik (freelance filmmaker/lecturer/researcher). In cooperation with the University of Antwerp.

CINEMA OF POETRY: TEXTURE AND MOOD IN NARRATIVE FILM

In 1965, Pier Paolo Pasolini coined a distinction between a cinema of poetry and a cinema of prose. The cinema of poetry would be characterised by a free stream of images and sounds embedded in a narrative that mainly exists in these films as a pretext, an alibi for their poetic elements, qualities that differ from the classical model of audio-visual motifs that form thematic patterns in support of narrative meaning.

The lectures and screening in this programme search for these elusive qualities—mystery, mood, texture, sensuality, etc.—that constitute ‘the poetic’ in narrative film, itself ranging from a pyrotechnic poetry of heightened style to the languorous poetry of time beguiled.

Guest speakers for this programme strand are film critic Adrian Martin and professor Catherine Wheatley (King’s College London).