VENICINEMA:
UNDERSTANDING CITIES
through FILM

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VeniCinema proposes a novel approach to understanding cities through film. You will explore how fiction films have expressed Venice's characteristics through structured dramatic spatial narratives. Using the screen language of cinematic montage, you will create observational films that reveal everyday urban life in Venice, an approach transferable to other cities.

Participants from a wide range of disciplines
Undergraduates, Masters, PhD and Post-Doc students
Professionals

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.