Session V: Within the framework of the 2nd Edition of the UNAM International Film Festival, FICUNAM
February 23 – March 1, 2012  - MuAC Auditorium

The UNAM Ingmar Bergman Special Chair in Film & Theater is an initiative of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) with the support of its Cultural Outreach Coordination (Coordinación de Difusión Cultural) and through the collaboration of the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE). The goal of this Chair is to create a space for the promotion of academic reflection and education to strengthen and broaden our culture in relation to film and theater.

The UNAM International Film Festival includes the UNAM Ingmar Bergman Special Chair in Film & Theater to the program of its Second Edition. The idea is to nurture and strengthen film and theater culture among the university community, specialists, and society in general. This is a space devoted to the refection on the role played by theater and film in contemporary life, through a dialogue with outstanding artists and intellectuals renowned for their knowledge of these two art disciplines.

 

 

Conferences

Chantal Akerman speaks with Roger Alan Koza

Chantal Akerman (Belgium, heir to the Nouvelle Vague) speaks with Roger Alan Koza (Argentina, films critic and guest programmer for FICUNAM and the Hamburg Festival)
Saturday, February 25, 13:30. 
MuAC Auditorium

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Víctor Gaviria speaks with Armando Casas

Víctor Gaviria (Colombia, filmmaker) speaks with Armando Casas (Mexico, filmmaker and director of the University Film School, CUEC)
Monday, February 27, 18:00. 
MuAC Auditorium

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Peter Tscherkassky speaks with Hans Hurch

Peter Tscherkassky (Austria, a pillar of avant-garde cinema) speaks with Hans Hurch (Austria, director of the Viennale, the Vienna International Film Festival)
Tuesday, February 28, 18:00. 
MuAC Auditorium

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Masao Adachi speaks with Go Hirasawa through a videoconference.

Masao Adachi (Japan, filmmaker and activist) speaks with Go Hirasawa (Japan, political cinema historian) through a videoconference.
Wednesday, February 29, 18:00. 
MuAC Auditorium

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Round Tables

Agreements & Disagreements between Cinema and Theater in Mexico
Fiction Frontiers

Omar Medina (Mexico, artistic director of the theater company Complot Escena), Gabino Rodríguez (Mexico, actor), José Luis Saldaña (Mexico, general director of Complot Escena) and Claudio Valdés Kuri (Mexico, theater director)
Moderator: Mario Espinosa (Mexico, director of the UNAM Theater School (CUT)
MuAC Auditorium, CCU
Monday, February 27, 16:00


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New Approximations to Film and Theater in Mexico
From One Character to Another

Carlos Bolado (Mexico, filmmaker), Yulene Olaizola (Mexico, filmmaker) and Francisco Vargas (Mexico, filmmaker)
Moderator: Carlos Carrera (Mexico, President of the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
MuAC Auditorium
Tuesday, February 28, 16:00

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Hand-Made Cinema
The Art of exposure and contact printing

The National Autonomous University of Mexico, through its Coordination of Cultural Outreach, opens a call for the selection process to participate in the workshop “Hand-Made Cinema. The Art of Exposure and Contact Printing” given by the American artist and filmmaker Eve Heller. The workshop will take place on Monday, February 27, 2012, from 10:00 to 19:00 at the UNAM Film Archives (Filmoteca de la UNAM). The workshop will count with the support of Kodak.


Eve Heller (USA, 1961)
She began studying filmmaking when she was 17, attending the S.U.N.Y. Department of Media Studies at Buffalo. She received her BA in German Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies from Hunter College in 1987 and an MFA in filmmaking from Bard College in 1993. Her award winning work has been widely shown, both in the U.S. and internationally, at such venues as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Collective for Living Cinema, the New York Film Festival, Pacific Film Archives, Toronto’s Cinematheque Ontario, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Louvre and the Austrian Filmmuseum in Vienna. Eve currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria and Hyde Park, New York. (Website AUSTRIAN INDEPENDENT FILM DATABASE)

 

Workshop Objectives:
To introduce the participants to the art of contact printing and the processing by hand of film footage. The workshop will provide the necessary theoretical tools to understand the nature of the material and the process, as well as the practical aspects of the dynamics involved in the exposure and intervention of 16mm footage. Each student will process and develop 1 meter of film footage using different approaches. At the end of the workshop the films developed by the participants will be edited in order to screen the final result.

Duration:
8 hours.

Limited Entry:
10 People

Requirements:
All those interested must have experience in the realization of audiovisual work and an interest in cinema as an artistic expression. English comprehension is required (the workshop will be given in English). Students from the fields of Communication, Visual Arts, or those enrolled at a professional film school or in any other discipline related to art and culture are encouraged to apply. It is recommended for the participants to count with a basic knowledge of the laboratory processes and the work with 16mm footage. All those interested send a .pdf document to the e-mail catedrabergman@unam.mx, with the following documents:
- Curriculum Vitae.
- Statement of Purpose.
- Registration Invoice.
- Recommendation letter from an educational institution or an established professional within the field.
- Letter of Intent stating a commitment to assist to the entire workshop and to the screening of the films included in the section Eve Heller: Behind this Soft Eclipse of the Second Edition of the UNAM International Film Festival: February 23-March 1, 2012.

Registration Fee:
$ 1,000.00  General Fee.
50% Discount for Students.

Registration and Financial Aids:
All of those who satisfy the established requirements can ask to be registered under any of the two following modalities:

- Distance registration by filling the registration form at www.catedrabergman.unam.mx

- Directly at the offices of the UNAM Cultural Outreach Coordination: Coordinación de Difusión Cultural, Centro Cultural Universitario de Ciudad Universitaria, México, D.F. Information: catedrabergman@unam.mx Phones: 5276 9724, 5622 7015 and 5622 6959. Office Hours: 10:00-14:00.

The ten participants will be selected by a committee that will grant a limited number of financial aids and discounts. The deadline for submitting the required documentation is February 15 and the results will be published on the 20th of February in the following Web pages: www.catedrabergman.unam.mx, www.cultura.unam.mx and www.ficunam.unam.mx