Documentary film workshop in Basel
Documentary film workshop in Basel
Publié par Eda Uner le Tuesday 13 May 2025
DOCUMENTARY FILM WORKSHOP: LONG-TERM SUPPORT – PROCESS AND CLOSE-UP
How does the observation of its protagonists become a cinematographic narrative? To what extent do filmmakers influence these personal processes? And how does the work of filmmaking influence the lives of the protagonists? The documentary film workshop, organised by Balimage, will provide answers to these and other questions.
In their films La Déposition and Naima, directors Claudia Marschal and Anna Thommen maintain a close relationship with their protagonists and accompany them through profound processes of transformation. For her project Naima, Anna worked in collaboration with her protagonist and also involved her in the editing process. In La Déposition, Claudia accompanies her cousin Emmanuel, who tells her about the deep wounds he suffered as a child.
In their films La Déposition and Naima, directors Claudia Marschal and Anna Thommen maintain a close relationship with their protagonists and accompany them through profound processes of transformation. For her project Naima, Anna worked in collaboration with her protagonist and also involved her in the editing process. In La Déposition, Claudia accompanies her cousin Emmanuel, who tells her about the deep wounds he suffered as a child.
This proximity, which is transformative for both the directors and the protagonists, will be the focus of this workshop. Claudia Marschal and Anna Thommen’s working methods and the different phases of their projects will be discussed in small groups with the filmmakers, using extracts from selected films.
Notes on the films and people:
– LA DÉPOSITION by Claudia Marschal, Critics’ Week Special Prize at the Locarno Festival 2024. Claudia, writer and director from Strasbourg, based in Paris (F). LA DÉPOSITION (2024), LIPSTICK (2022), IN OUR PARADISE (2019).
– NAIMA by Anna Thommen, premiering at DOK.Leipzig 2024, released in Swiss cinemas in spring 2025. Anna, writer and director from Basel (CH), NAIMA (2024), VOLUNTEER (2019), NEULAND (2013). Several festival prizes including the Basel Film Prize.
– Sebastian Sorg lives in Munich (Germany) and works as a creative producer and consultant specialising in material development.
Information and registration conditions
The language of the workshop will be German, with a translation to French. The participation to the workshop is free of charge. Registrations must be made until June 20, 2025, via office@balimage. Limited number of places.
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Symposium & workshop on AI at Festival Bildrausch in Basel
Publié par Célia Janus le Wednesday 15 May 2024
Generative AI and the impact on the film industry: The ability to develop and realise ideas has always seemed to us to be an exclusively human affair. But soon machines could also have this creative spark. What does this mean for the creative industries, especially for film?
Agenda:
Inputs and discussion with:
- Adrian Notz: Artificial augmented creativity: A new era of art (GER)
- Bruno Moreschi: How Machines Learn to See Our World. The Humans Behind Machine Learning (EN)
- Lerie Pemanagpo, transdisciplinary artist, performer and director.
Prompting workshop: turning a sci-fi short story into a movie with Roland Fischer (Turing Agency).
Admission free.
Participants are invited to the opening of the Bildrausch Filmfest Basel after the workshop.
Further information on Festival Bildrausch here
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Workshop | From image to story
Publié par Alexis Smouts le Wednesday 25 May 2022
Balimage is pleased to invite you to a workshop around the different methods of filmic writing with non-verbal material. The workshop is organized in the framework of Bildrausch Filmfest Basel.
The workshop will be led by the Argentine duo Luciana Acuña et Alejo Moguillansky. The method of cinematic writing: first the image, then a fiction and finally, at best, an idea. It is the inversion of working with preconceived scripts. The goal of the course is to analyze and explore possible methods of film writing based on non-verbal, non-argumentative material.
Program:
- Part 1 : Lecture with film clips: on works of the duo Acuña / Moguillansky as well as on influences from film history.
- Part 2 : practice | creating and shooting film sequences in the group
- Part 3 : review and analysis of the material produced by the groups
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Writers’ workshop: Develop your content and your film ideas!
Publié par Alexis Smouts le Tuesday 24 May 2022
Balimage is pleased to invite you to a workshop on content and story development
Writing a screenplay is a sensitive, sometimes fragile and very personal process.
Long before resorting to the dramaturgical toolbox, the rules of which are handed down in numerous textbooks and courses, it is first of all a matter of confronting one’s own material – and thus oneself – and finding the personal, unique attitude with which one can tell a story and no one else.
What does this mean in concrete terms? What are the steps in developing a story? What are the chances, the risks and the singularities offered to the author? Are there any rules that cannot be deviated from in this work that draws its strength from the freedom of the mind? This workshop will address the benefits of teamwork in this process by asking how teamwork works in this process.
This workshop will be led by Julia Willmann, a long-time screenwriter and professor of content development in Germany (e.g. at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin) and Switzerland (e.g. at the ZHdK). Prior to that, she worked for Arte in Strasbourg for a long time and as a director in Cologne. Julia grew up in Freiburg im Breisgau, studied Romance and German languages and literature as well as media studies in Aix-en-Provence (FR), and then film making in Berlin. She is therefore very familiar with all the regions that make up the Upper Rhine.
Application deadline on June 7th!
Programm
10 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. : Short introduction round (person & film idea) – Exemples of story development talk
12.30 – 13.30 : Lunch
13.30 – 16.30 : Further development of own film idea in groups
16.40 – 17.30 : Exchange in plenum about findings
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Workshop “writing about regional content”
Publié par Célia Janus le Thursday 13 January 2022
The CinEuro Upper Rhine project and Balimage are pleased to invite you to the tri-national workshop on writing “regional content” to be held on February 25, 2022 in Basel.
How can regional topics be integrated into films, how can stories be anchored in a region? What are the possibilities offered by the trinational Upper Rhine region, on the border between France, Germany and Switzerland?
This is what author Jan Galli (Freiburg i. Br./Berlin, among others author of the series “Bad Banks”), director Max Disbeaux (Strasbourg, author of the film “Fessenheim 75”), historian and ethnologist Markus Moehring (Director of the “Dreiland” museum) and journalist Peter Schenk will show you.
Program:
Part 1: “Reading” a region, identifying materials, stories and locations.
Part 2: Example “Fessenheim 75”, a feature film in development with a regional topic and an international theme
Part 3: The practice of experimentation: can “my” regional story reach people beyond the region? How to write universaly about local events?
The workshop is bilingual (German/French) with interpretation. Limited number of participants.
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Workshop “sustainable production”
Publié par Célia Janus le Tuesday 16 November 2021
Producers, editors, filmmakers and students: join us for a workshop on sustainable film production!
This workshop is organized in the frame of the Fernsehfilmfestivals Baden-Baden and will be held in English.
Topic: Strategies and measures to implement a sustainable workflow in the film industry
Speakers:
- Anika Kruse, Green Consultant Film & TV -Transformation Manager Sustainable Culture
- Mareike Pielot, Green Consultant Film & TV – U- Environmental protection officer /environmental auditor – Director ofphotography
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