The World as Expanded Cinema

The Merz Akademie at the HFM Summer Festival!

An Expanded Cinema workshop using your own cell phone.

In the workshop we produce video walks as subjective narratives that navigate us through the architectures of public spaces: With our smartphones!

MOVEMENT is one of the central cinematic parameters. We experience the architectures of public spaces by moving/floating through them.

SCALING is one of the central means of inducing emotions: The widened eyes in close-up / the rebellious indigenous people on the horizon in long shot. Different sized projection ratios stimulate different regions in the cerebrum: Gestalt recognition or escape reflex. Scale is equally an important parameter of public spaces: how big are we in relation to the buildings? How does the small between the sidewalk cracks relate to the large above us?

NAVIGATION doesn't immediately sound like film, but more like smartphone. But aren't movie editing rooms scripted spaces? And don't navigation apps send us through by means of cinematic grammars?

After a brief introduction to content, technology, and design, we will produce video walks together using our smartphones. We will then share the video walks with each other and watch the video walks of the other workshop participants with our smartphones - and let them navigate us physically and mentally through the architecture of public spaces.

Please bring: Good shoes, a smartphone with charging cable and headphones.

Direction: David Quigley - Professor für Kulturtheorie an der Merz Akademie in Stuttgart & Peter Ott - Professor for Film & Video an der Merz Akademie in Stuttgart

Look forward to a mind-bending workshop where you will rediscover Stuttgart from unusual perspectives.

Please note that photographs and film recordings might be taken during the event for public relations purposes.

Kindly supported by the City of Stuttgart.

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