Call for Participants: February embodied documentary filmmaking workshops
Dear all, please see below for information on our 2025 embodied documentary filmmaking workshops, which may be of interest to those wanting to apply filmmaking to their research or work.
EMBODIED DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING WORKSHOPS for women, trans, and non binary participants Online
Embodied Documentary Filmmaking is a creative process developed as part of IMPRINT Documentary Collective's ongoing, collaborative, practice based research exploring the convergence of the body, somatic practices and experimental filmmaking.
The Stories Our Bodies Hold and Documenting Dreams are online, 4 week filmmaking workshops where participants will make their own short documentary film on the body and/or their dreams through the lens of embodiment. Exploring the intersections of the felt body, the sensorial, movement, the physiological body, and the body politic, the workshops will create a space for collective experimentation with filmmaking techniques that focus on embodiment in camera use, editing, and directing.
The workshops will consist of up to 10 participants from all over the world who will collaborate as a group on idea generation, feedback and practical exercises. Participants will engage in a mixture of live sessions and independent work, each leaving the workshop with their own 1 - 10 minute film, and as a member of the IMPRINT Documentary Collective.
The Stories Our Bodies Hold Tuesdays in February, 7-9:30 PM GMT https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1109643326059
Documenting Dreams Thursdays in February, 7-9:30 PM GMT https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1002257187227
During the workshops, each participant will create their own short film by moving through the main stages of documentary filmmaking through an embodied lens:
- Pre-Production: How can our bodies somatically, sensorially, and emotionally inform stories we want to tell through film?
- Directing: What informed creative and political choices do we make as directors on how we tell embodied stories?
- Shooting: How do we position or visualise the body, or create a representation of the experience of the body, with a camera?
- Editing: How do we construct bodily-informed, intuitive, and alternative narrative structures for our films?
- Distribution: Where do we want our films to be seen, and what social and personal impact do we want our films to have?
*These workshops are suitable for participants of all levels of experience who have basic knowledge of using their own camera and a simple editing software. Artists, movement practitioners, researchers, students and filmmakers are all welcome to join. *These workshops are for those who have faced marginalisation due to their gender, which includes women, trans and non binary people.
ABOUT IMPRINT IMPRINT Documentary Collective is a feminist film collective exploring embodiment and the body in documentary film. Founded in 2021, IMPRINT delivers workshops, productions, and screenings to collectively experiment with embodied documentary filmmaking as a process for making films. Our collaborations both within the film industry and local communities have allowed us to reach a wide audience on the potential of embodied documentary, and our goal is to broaden the representation of marginalised storytellers by using the documentary medium as an act of radical and empathic resistance through the lens of the body politic.
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