Masterclass
Tuesday 9 | 7 | 2024, 10:30 – 11:30 |
Chora I Folegandros
Free entrance
Technological Frontiers in Contemporary Filmmaking:
A Masterclass with Ran Slavin
Τhe role of digital technologies in transforming the filmmaking process.Ηow filmmakers can leverage new media tools to enhance storytelling. Dive into the techniques and philosophies behind creating both experimental and narrative films. How Sound composition can influence the emotional and psychological impact of a film. Materiality and Immateriality in Digital Art.
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Note that conducted in English.
Biography
Ran Slavin
Film maker, video artist, visual designer and sound composer, Ran Slavin’s work eludes single descriptors. Video artist, film maker, visual and sound designer, his work is at the intersection of electronic media and the use of digital technologies to explore alternative inter relations of visual cultures, digital realities, myth and fiction. He works with emerging technologies and new media exploring miscellaneous themes via experimental and narrative cinema, installation and various territories in deconstructed ambient and experimental electronic music. His work engages with technology both as a medium and theme, challenging and addressing materiality, immateriality, artificial reality and post-production, addressing expressions of the unreal as an emerging reality. Selected exhibitions: The Lab 2023, The Ramat Gan Museum of Art 2023, The Decentral Art Pavilion at Venice Art Biennale 2022, Nakanojo Biennale Japan 2021, Rubin Museum Israel 2020, the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Mediations Biennial - Poland, the Istanbul Biennale, Videoforms-France, Network CCA Belgium, Museum on the Seam-Jerusalem, Transmediale and Merz-music Berlin, Rencontres International-Paris-Berlin-Madrid, Petah Tikva Museum, New Museum New York (2016), Halle 14, Leipzig (2015), The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre /Cyprus (2015) Hong-gah Museum, Taipei (2014) Kunsthalle / Hannover (2013+2022) Manifesta Satellite events /Belgium (2012), Tel Aviv Museum, honorable mention at Ars-Electronica new media festival at Linz Austria. Films have been selected at the POFF Black Nights International Film Festival, Camerimage Film Festival, Haifa and Jerusalem International Film Festivals, Ravenna Nightmare Film Festival, Ficci The International Film Festival of Cartagena De Indias, Asian Film Festival Barcelona, 12th Cinalfama Film Festival, 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival, 10th Cinefantasy International Fantastic Film Festival São Paulo, Cinemasia Amsterdam and many more. Recordings have been released on on Mille Plateaux, Sub Rosa, Cronica, Railcables, Nana Discs, Esoteric Recordings among others and his own Nocturnal Rainbow Recordings. Monograph artist book published by Mousse 2022 ​
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