Syllabus
MEETING WILL RUN ON MS TEAMS LINK (above)
Schedule of meetings: 1. Documentary film as a cultural shock and audivisual postcard (October 2, 2023) 2. Reconstruction of the Life (Robert Flaherty) (October 9, 2023) 3. Topics in front of your own doorstep (John Grierson and British School of Social realism) (October 16, 2023) 4. Politics and ideology in Documentary film (Dziga Vertov and Leni Riefenstahl) (October 23, 2023) 5. From Avantgarde to civically engaged documentary (Joris Ivens, Michael Moore) (October 3, 2023) 6. To catch life in the act - free cinema, cinema direct (Richard Leacock and others) (November 6, 2023) 7. Sociological and ethnographic approach in the documentary film (Jean Rouch, Martin Slivka) (November 13, 2023) - record 8. The world seen through emotions (Jan Špáta) (November 20, 2023) 9. Documentary film as a chronicle of the times (Helena Třeštíková, Federick Wiseman, Michael Apted) (November 27, 2023) 10. Documentary filmmaker as visionary (Geofrey Reggio) (December 6, 2023) 11. Presentation of the projects. (December 11, 2023) 12. Presentation of the projects. (December 19, 2023)
Annotation
The World of Documentary Film is a course built for 4EU + students. Documentary film is conceived here as a specific type of communication, as a way of seeing the world, as a special segment of audiovisual production and creative industry, as well as a social and socialization element and finally as a supreme creative method.
The course combines the theoretical-historical framework of various approaches of the "classics" of the documentary, theory as well as practical literary preparation of one's own documentary project. The lecturer is a long-time director, dramaturg (script-editor) and screenwriter of a documentary film.