VENICINEMA:
UNDERSTANDING CITIES
through FILM

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Venicinema will help expand, strengthen, deepen and consolidate your research interests in architecture, urban planning and social history; whether you’re an undergraduate, PhD candidate, post-doctoral researcher, or an early-years practitioner. It proposes a unique, interdisciplinary approach to understanding cities; you will first study how fiction films have expressed Venice's characteristics, then use the cinematic montage to make your own observational films. The approach, outputs and knowledge are transferrable and applicable to your own city or situation. The results are presented within the framework of your research interests and critiqued by experts in the field.

And then there’s the magic…of attending the ‘Floating Cinema’ on the lagoon, walking the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival, working with sound, and projecting or shooting films in precisely the same location as Daniel Craig, Kathryn Hepburn, Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, Amitabh Bachchan, Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp once stood and waited for the call to “action”.

Next Course Dates: 04 – 15 September 2023

No previous experience in filmmaking is necessary.

Participants from a wide range of academic disciplines
Undergraduates, Master, PhD and Post-Doc students
Early-years practitioners

WHAT YOU

will GET

Use film as medium

Acquire an understanding of the study of everyday life through the medium of film

Explore new "creative geographies"

Experiment with the manipulation of screen time and space to explore cityscapes.

Learn to organize your film narrative

Analyze fiction films in order to comprehend how narrative is spatially organized.

Make a short film

Use the montage tradition to make a short film in the city symphony tradition, addressing one of the studio themes. engage with the moving image as an aid to reasoning and thinking through urban scenarios.

Studio themes

Spatially organised narratives, observational cinema, city symphonies, montage, everyday urban life, spatial ethnography, urban taxonomies, Venice as a 15-minute city, cinema as a form of urban modelling, creative geographies, mapping, climate change, local versus global.