Workshop Interactive Film @ Berlinale 2004

[anna balint]

From: korsakow mediamatic <korsakow at mediamatic.net>

Workshop Interactive Film @ Berlinale 2004
5 - 9 February 2004, public presentation 10 February.

What?
In a group of 16 international filmmakers you use your own
footage to make an interactive film in a 5-day workshop.

The workshop is a pressure cooker style, intense process
where you get to know the possibilities of interactive
storytelling, design your own project, discuss it with
peers and experienced trainers, and build your own working
prototype.

Participants can bring 40 minutes of footage maximum per
person, or they can use material provided by us.

To make their interactive stories, the participants use
the elegant and easy to learn Korsakow System.

All participants are assisted personally in realising
their workshop projects. No technical knowledge of new
media is required. You have to have experience in making
films though!

More information on the Korsakow System and set up of the
workshop can be found at http://www.korsakow.org

Why?
The combination of film making with interactive media
offers the possibility to explore new ways of telling film
stories, both in form and in content. An interactive
presentation of material can offer the viewer the
possibility to explore side stories to the main themes in
more detail. Then there is the native possibility in
interactive narrative projects to offer different or even
opposing perspectives on the same themes parallel to each
other, forming each other's context. Furthermore
interactive projects can open up 'issue spaces', where the
viewer ('user') can enter an actual discussion with the
perspectives of the author on a theme or issue.
In this workshop special attention goes to editing for
interactive purposes. The key issue of interactive
narration and also the central question of this workshop
is: how can the users actions and choices be integrated
meaningfully in the meaning of an interactive story?

Where, when and how much?
Workshop days are Thursday 5 February till Monday 9
February with a public presentation on Tuesday 10
February. Workshop sessions take from 10.00 to 16.00 on
all days. The workshop takes place at the University of
the Arts, 10 minutes from the Berlinale main venues.
Participation fee is Euro 350, -. This includes lunches at
all workshop days, all materials and equipment and an
accreditation to the Berlinale. For more information, mail
to korsakow (AT) mediamatic.net.

Mediamatic Foundation
Prins Hendrikkade 192
1011 TD Amsterdam
tel + 31 (20) 344 60 00
fax + 31 (20) 626 37 93
http://www.korsakow.org