TEACHING METHODOLOGIES IN CONTEXT
REFLECTIONS ON THE VARAN WORKSHOPS
Dieses Panel beleuchtet die Lehrpraktiken, die im Rahmen der Varan-Workshops entwickelt wurden – bekannt für ihren Fokus auf Observational Cinema und partizipatives Lernen. In einer Vielzahl kultureller und sozialer Kontexte umgesetzt, schaffen diese Workshops wertvolle Räume für kreative Zusammenarbeit und wechselseitiges Lernen. Gleichzeitig regen sie zu einer kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit den Dynamiken von Wissensvermittlung, Autorschaft und Machtverhält-nissen an. Wie lässt sich Lehre sinnvoll an verschiedene Kontexte anpassen? Welche Herausforderungen und Erkenntnisse ergeben sich aus transnationalen Bildungs-begegnungen? Und wie wird das Verhältnis zwischen Mentorinnen und Teilnehmerinnen gestaltet? Ausgehend von praktischen Erfahrungen diskutiert das Panel die Potenziale und Herausforderungen des Filmlehrens in diversen gesellschaftlichen Umfeldern.
MODERATION
THOMAS JOHN is an anthropologist and filmmaker specializing in audiovisual and media anthropology. He designed, codirects and teaches the MA program ‘Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary Practices’ at the University of Münster Professional School. His research interests and teaching focus are collaborative, creative, multimodal and sensory narrative strategies in anthropology and documentary arts.
PANELISTS
EMMANUELLE BAUDE is a documentary and fiction film editor. After training as an assistant on feature-length fiction films (Claude Berri, Jean Marboeuf, Mama Keita, Anne Fontaine, Benoît Jacquot, Noèmie Lvosky, etc.), she went on to edit documentaries with directors such as Hélène de Crécy, Mark Daniels or Catherine Maximoff, Olivier Doran or Eugène Green. As a member of the Ateliers Varan, she initiated the Varan workshop in Vietnam with Sylvie Gadmer in 2003 and took part in the workshops in Hanoi in 2004 and Ho Chi Minh City in 2005. She has also taken part in other various workshops abroad, including in Mauritius in 2000, Colombia in 2002 and Morocco in 2009. She regularly supervises editing courses in Paris
JEAN-NOËL CRISTIANI studied philosophy and later cinema together with Jean Rouch at Paris X university. In 1973, he beca-me a lecturer in the Philosophy Department at Paris V University. His first feature film, LE SILENCE DES ORGANES, was released in 1976. In 1980 he took part in the creation of the Ateliers Varan. He has run several workshops in Romania, Georgia, Serbia, Kenya and Egypt. In 2010 he set up a workshop in Ajaccio, Corsica, which has been held every year since. His films subjects are varied, alternating from particle physics to musician biographies. Today, he continues to explore these themes of walking and painting in a cinematic study of Turner’s walking sketches.
DAVID GHÉRON TRÉTIAKOFF is a director, editor, visual artist and performer from Brussels. After attending the Varan filmma-king course in Paris in 2002, he became a member and trainer at the Ateliers Varan and has supervised workshops in Cairo, Ajaccio, Guadeloupe, Ouagadougou and Paris. His work focuses on political and social issues such as the consequences of the Algerian war, the perception of identity in Muslim countries and the effects of international terrorism. His work falls somewhere between documentary and experimental cinema.
TRAN THI PHUONG THAO studied foreign trade and interpreting in Hanoi, before moving to Paris to pursue a master’s degree at Sciences Po. There, she did a postgraduate degree in documentary filmmaking at the University of Poitiers. Later, she joined the Varan Vietnam workshop - first as a translator, then as a trainee - and directed WORKERS DREAM. Today, as an independent documentary filmmaker, she leads filmmaking workshops in Vietnam and produces the work of emerging filmmakers through the Varan Vietnam organization