Master Class - Anne Papillault & Jean-François Dars: Short Stories, Big Ideas
Submitted on July 13,2015
October 6th - October 8th from 6pm to 9pm
Over three sessions, celebrated filmmakers Anne Papillault and Jean-François Dars teach participants how to make photographic short stories, using black and white still-images accompanied by a high quality audio interview. Their “histoires courtes” or short story technique allows filmmakers to explore big ideas in science and politics, using a narrative photomontage approach. This master class introduces participants both to production tools (hardware and software) and production methodologies.
We invite you to look at the Papillault & Dars website to see a sampling of their short story/histoires courtes approach.
http://histoires-courtes.fr
Interested participants should write a very brief description of an idea that they would like to explore through the "short story" technique.
Based in Paris, Jean-François Dars and Anne Papillault have been activist mediamakers since the 1960s. They worked closely with pioneering filmmaker Chris Marker and were part of SLON/Vidéo, the activist media collective created by Marker and Inger Servolin. Since the 1980s, they have been documentarians-in-residence for the French National Center for Scientific Research.