Punto de Vista offers a space for collective creation during the Festival: Punto de Vista-Labs

The 12th Navarra International Documentary Film Festival – Punto de Vista, to be held from 5 to 10 March 2018, is offering new activities, including a series of creation labs exploring various aspects of avant-garde cinema.

The first lab will be part of ‘The Sound We See’, a global collaborative filmmaking project that began in USA (Los Angeles) and has been to The Netherlands, Vietnam, India, Canada, Britain, Germany, Japan, Sweden, Mexico, Bulgaria and Latvia since then. It consists in the creation of city portraits or ‘symphonies’. The project is coming to Punto de Vista in March, inviting the lab’s participants to create a collective 8mm film portraying the city of Pamplona. The project is being carried out with the Huarte Contemporary Art Centre and the Culture Department of the City of Pamplona.

The lab will be led by Lisa Marr and Paolo Davanzo, heads of the Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles. The collaborative filming experience will be shown with live music during the Festival’s closing ceremony on 10 March.

Lisa Marr (Canada) and Paolo Davanzo (Italy) head the Echo Park Film Center (EPPC), a community art centre in Los Angeles focusing on analogue filmmaking techniques. Filmmakers, educators and film activists, Marr and Davanzo think of their work as a catalyst for collaborative creative work and social change. In 2008, they launched the EPFC Filmmobile, an old school bus turned eco-friendly screening and educational facility on wheels. As The Here & Now, Marr and Davanzo travel the world bringing movies and music to contemporary society.

‘The Sound We See’: A collective filming experience

‘The Sound We See’ uses analogue filmmaking techniques and the ‘City Symphony’ genre practiced in the 1920s by Walter Ruttmann and Dziga Vertov as starting points to explore the soul and the singularity of cities by combining images from everyday environments.

Discovering and redefining techniques of past avant-garde urban documentarians, participants will work with 8mm cameras and eco-friendly processing methods to create a handmade 24min cinematic journey with each hour of the day represented as one minute on film. There will be one Tri-X B&W Super 8 reversal film for every two hours. Participants will have to plan their shooting sessions carefully and resort to in-camera editing to make the most of their time and films. As a tribute to the earlier city portraits in the series, style and presentation will be of utmost importance. Certain stylistic criteria will be used to set forth a framework for creative exploration, e.g. handmade credits, camera effects or silent, black-and-white film premiered with bespoke live score.

DATES:

Working sessions from 23 to 25 February and from 2 to 4 March, 10am to 7pm. The resulting collaborative film shall be a cinematic celebration of the city of Pamplona, to be premiered with live music during the Punto de Vista Festival closing ceremony on 10 March.

REGISTRATION:

This lab is targeted at people over 18 interested in audio visual media, e.g. Film and Art students. No Super 8 or 16mm filmmaking experience required. Registration from 11 January to 15 February. Registration fee: €20. Registration form available online at:

http://www.centrohuarte.es/es/inicio/?form=cfigf
More Punto de Vista-Labs to be announced soon.

www.echoparkfilmcenter.org
https://sellyourtvandcometothecinema.org/