CALL FOR APPLICANTS
The London Film School Presents:
SHIRIN NESHAT ARTISTS’ FILMMAKING WORKSHOP
21ST – 30TH OCTOBER 2013
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through
Arts Council England
Funding partners:Taymour Grahne Gallery, Magic of Persia
Delivery partners: The Courtauld Institute of Art, The Barbican, TANKTV
Creative Director: Vali Mahlouji
Produced by Vali Mahlouji and Kate Wilson
The London Film School, supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, funding from Magic of Persia and the Taymour Grahne Gallery and delivered in collaboration with The Courtauld Institute of Art, The Barbican and TANK TV, presents a 10-day intensive artists’ filmmaking workshop, led by the celebrated New York-based Iranian artist filmmaker Shirin Neshat.
Shirin Neshat is an Iranian-born, New York-based artist, photographer and filmmaker. Her work often addresses the social, political and psychological dimensions of women’s experiences in contemporary Middle Eastern societies. Neshat’s videography projects Turbulent and Rapture won the prestigious International Award at the XLVIII Venice Biennale. In 2009 she won the Silver Lion for best director at the 66thVenice Film Festival for her feature directorial debut, Women Without Men.
The Workshop is being offered free of charge. Ten participants will be recruited through competitive application. The selection panel includes representatives from the arts and film sectors. The selection panel will be looking for candidates who can bring knowledge of artists’ work in the moving image and creative skills to the workshop process. Technical film training is not essential.
The deadline for applications is Monday 30th September at 12.00 pm.
The programme incorporates four public events: a joint interview with Neshat and artist Isaac Julien on 22nd October at the Barbican Cinema 1, a screening of Neshat’s short works and experimental films on 24th October at the Courtauld Institute of Art, a screening of Neshat’s feature film Women Without Men and a presentation of the films created by the Workshop participants (dates and locations to be confirmed).
Ben Gibson, Director of the London Film School said “This Workshop brings together the aesthetic and narrative concerns of the fine arts and filmmaking, exploring a space the School wants to occupy and understand. It’s hard to think of anyone better to lead us on the journey than Shirin Neshat, an artist whose subtlety and openness have allowed her to make us see and comprehend in new ways – in cinemas and in galleries.”
Vali Mahlouji, independent curator, said “Visual artists have engaged with cinema from the outset and Shirin Neshat’s practice straddles the worlds of art and cinema giving us an opportunity to explore the fluid boundaries between these forms.”
Press information, please e-mail Kate Hughes: k.hughes@lfs.org.uk
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Notes for Editors
The London Film School
The London Film School was founded in 1956. Its graduates include Mike Leigh, Michael Mann, Tak Fujimoto, Bill Douglas and Roger Pratt. Since 2001 the LFS, under its current director and independent producer Ben Gibson, and Chaired by LFS alumnus Mike Leigh, has re-invented itself as one of the world's key graduate film conservatoires. It offers a 2 year MA Film-making course, a 1-year MA Screenwriting course, a professional development workshop programme and, from September 2014, an MA in International Film Business in association with University of Exeter.
TANK TV
