Cinematic Research Practices | Collaborative Experiments

UPDATE: Due to the new Covid health regulations, WORM decided to close its doors for the public until further notice. This means that Field Recordings 3 will be postponed. As things stand, Tim and Sander are hopeful that the event can take place in the spring of 2021 – after you’ve completed your fieldwork. Relatedly, The CX1 course assignment will be postponed as well. We will update you about the exact dates in due course.

Based on the ideas discussed on 22 September with Sander Hölsgens & Tim Leyendekker, student groups should complete their program intervention for the Field Recordings festival to be submitted to Kaltura Media Gallery.

Interventions should be accompanied by a 1-page motivation statement. If your group is planning a live/streaming intervention during the actual festival, a 1-page motivation statement for the the project is still due at this time.

At the time of the event (6-8 November), all Student Interventions will be combined as an entry for the Leiden Anthropology Blog.

An exploration of contemporary anthropological cinema and landscape film

WORM, Rotterdam

UPDATE: Due to the new Covid health regulations, WORM decided to close its doors for the public until further notice. This means that Field Recordings 3 will be postponed. As things stand, Tim and Sander are hopeful that the event can take place in the spring of 2021 – after you’ve completed your fieldwork. We will update you about the exact dates in due course.

An event with filmmaker focus programmes, roundtable discussions, live performances by sound artists, selections of short films, installations, et cetera.

As discussed in class on 22 September, we are collaborating with the founders of this festival to provide students with access to some of the most cutting-edge work happening at the border between visual ethnography and art practices. This initiative is also designed to facilitate the building of a larger network of practitioners to understand the potential for multimodal research beyond academia.

Students groups respond to one of the ten programs of this year’s festival.  Whether a standalone output or live/streaming intervention during the actual festival, students should attend their selected program and be prepared to briefly present their intervention.

Interventions will be combined as an entry for the Leiden Anthropology Blog.

Hometown and online (Monday & Wednesday); Working virtually (Tuesday)

In collaboration with Marlies Vermeulen, Zuyd Hogeschool Architectuur Academie, and Andrea Stultiens, KABK Master Photography and Society, students from the three programs will collaborate on a number of exercises that will explore different disciplinary approaches to Visualizing Spatial Experience.

Days 1 & 3 were originally planned to be conducted around Utrecht Centraal, but due to COVID restrictions, these activities should be completed in your own neighborhoods, villages, towns, cities (wherever you live) with some online components.

You will be invited to collaborate on Microsoft Teams beforehand. Please download in advance.

Day 1 – Exercises by Marlies, Andrea and Mark

09.00 – 10.00 Online gathering, make introductions and explain the plan for the day including interdisciplinary groups for the workshop
10.00 -15.00 Individually carry out exercises
15.00 – 15.30 Students meet in interdisciplinary breakout groups, exchange experiences
15.30 – 16.00 Online gathering and sharing reflections, each interdisciplinary teams asks one team member to share their experiences as a group
16.00 – 16.30 Explanation of the next assignment, questions

Day 2 – Group work

Latest at 09.00 Students submit individual written reflections uploaded in the folder of the group on Teams
09.00 – 10.00 Idiot hour: open hour driven by student questions
10.00 – 12.00 Working (starting with reading each others reflections)
12.00 – 15.00 Group feedback (based on individual reflection)
15.00 – 16.00 Finalising exercises
Latest at 16.00 Upload the final version of the exercise formulated per group 17.00 – 18.00 Feedback to student groups if needed

Day 3 – Exercises by Groups

09.00 – 10.00 Hand over and swapping the exercises including an introduction
10.00 – 12.00 Execution of exercises
12.00 – 14.00 Upload of outcomes, group reflection on the executed exercise, (including lunch) – possible to talk to Andrea, Mark or Marlies
14.00 – 16.00 Online presentations, each group presents and offers reflections and others react (first five minutes presentation by the groups based on outcomes of the exercise they were given. Second five minutes response by the group that formulated the exercise)
16.00 – 16.30 Break
16.30-17.00 Brief reflections from Mark, Marlies and Andrea on the presentations – Evaluation and closing of the workshop