Note: In light of the covid pandemic and the unpredictability of its evolution, the programmes for the 2020/21 academic year have undergone format adaptations to on-line or on-premise learning (or a mixture of both in exceptional cases), Ar.Co’s priority being whenever possible on-premise. The schedules here announced therefore mention the format in which, except in case of absolute impossibility, the subject in question will be taught. Ar.Co will rigorously follow and implement all DGS guidelines, including the use of masks, distancing and hygiene.
FULL PROGRAM CINEMA / MOVING IMAGE 2020/2021
Heads of department: Marcelo Costa, Maria Mire.
Standard three-year program dedicated to the learning of the technical and theoretical aspects involved in the creative use of the movement image, in the context of both cinematography and the fine arts. The orientation is progressively more individualized as the program develops, encouraging the development of an authorial dimension in the work. Options for further development by applying to Individual Project and/or Advanced Course in Visual Arts.
Staff: André Constantino, Camila Vale, Dayana Lucas, Gonçalo Robalo, Inês Sapeta Dias, Leonardo Simões, Leonor Noivo, Luciana Fina, Joana Cunha Ferreira, Marcelo Costa, Maria Mire, Miguel Tavares, Nuno Martinho, Nuno Saraiva, Ricardo Guerreiro / Assistant: Margarida Albino
Fee 10 x 190€ + 150€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (Insurance) (for enrolments up to 15th september)
Admission No requirements. By order of enrolment.
Program Level 1 of the standard three-year program. An experimental attitude is encouraged in order to develop the student’s sensibility to the movement image, in its more practical and technical aspects. The main objective of this level is the creation of a collective and individual portfolio that is both consistent and diversified, reflecting the various skills acquired and revealing an artistic dimension in the work.
Disciplines
Attachments schedule
Fee 10 x 190€ + 150€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (Insurance) (for enrolments up to 15th september)
Admission Cinema/Moving Image 1 or equivalent training. Portfolio presentation. Interview.
Program Level 2 of the standard three-year program. An increasingly more experimental attitude is encouraged, with a view to achieving progress in the authorial dimension of each student’s work. The year will be divided in 3 parts. In the first of these periods, special emphasis will be given to practical exercises developed out of the classroom and subsequently discussed in group sessions. Exercises aim at reflecting an adequate relation between point of view, cinematographic vocabulary and finalized object, thus preparing the students for the development of a personal project. The second period will be dedicated to the writing and discussion of the annual personal project and to its pre-production. Finally, the third part of the year will include the actual shooting, the discussion of the material thus obtained and the following of montage until concluded. The course will benefit from the participation of guests who will contribute with their experience and skills to a widening of the students’ compositional horizon.
Disciplines
Fee 10 x 185€ + 150€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (Insurance) (for enrolments up to 15th september)
Admission Cinema/Moving Image 2 or equivalent training. Portfolio presentation. Interview.
Program
Level 3 of the standard three-year program. A deepening of the personal dimension of the work is encouraged, with the objective of achieving a high level of autonomy. Development of a substantial personal project that implies consistent objectives and means of production.
The department will create the conditions for a post-curricular internship in institutions of the cultural sector and/or of cinematographic production, so as to encourage a
professionalizing experience of the students concluding this training cycle.
Disciplines
Notes With the completion of Cinema/Moving Image 3 the Certificate for the Basic Studies Plan in Cinema/Moving Image is issued. Options for further development: Individual Project and/or Advanced Course in the Visual Arts.
Price 125€ + 12,50€ (Insc)
Schedule Wednesdays from 14hto 16h30
Type occasional
Program
On-line classes.
The workshop aims at promoting an effective collaboration between students whose sensibility is closer to the cinema and others whose sensibility is closer to the discipline of illustration. The confrontation between both languages aims at producing a schematic representation, in the form of sequential images, of the plot and rhythm of a film project.
Teachers
Price 250€ + 25€ (Insc) + 2,50 (Seg)
Schedule Fridays from 18h to 21h
Type occasional
Program
On-premise classes.
Priority will be given to the exploration of the documentary as a specific but integrating strategy in a wider cinematographic practice. Resorting to a series of films, texts and practical exercises, suggested and discussed in class, we will map some of the fundamental problems raised by the relation between cinema and reality, the key point of documentary practice. This map will be partly oriented by the problems that participants encounter while building their final work: a small film, with a free theme and developed individually.
Teachers
Price 175€ + 17,50€ (Enrolment) + 2,50€ (Insurance)
Schedule Wednesdays from 18h00 to 21h00
Type occasional
Program
On-premise classes.
Shooting in super 8 film in the “cadavre exquis” mode. Brief theoretical introduction to the basic principles of photochemistry and notes on the history of homemade/artistic laboratories and their present-day relevance. Introduction to 8mm film developing techniques - black and white film reversal. Transferring the developed films to digital format. Analysis of the workshop’s results.
Teachers
Theoretical course: Cinema History(ies).
Date 7 to 21 Dec 2020 and 11 Jan to 8 Mar 2021
Price 275€ + 27,5€ (Enrolment) + 0,75€ (Insurance)
Admission No requirements. By order of enrolment.
Schedule Mondays from 18h00 to 21h00
Type occasional
Program
On-line classes.
We will approach authors, currents and movements that have contributed to the evolution and legitimizing of cinematography by both creating its language and reiventing its practice. Anchoring concepts, films and gestures onto the history of cinema, we will review the first age of the seventh art, the first era of television and vídeo art and the migration of contemporary cinema to new forms and presentation spaces. Participants will be encouraged to make a brief visual and/or written essay based on the path, concepts and materials presented in class.
Teachers
Workshop: Introduction to Shooting
Date 5 Jan to 9 Feb 2021
Price 150€+ 15€ (Enrolm) + 2,50€ (Ins)
Schedule Tuesdays from 18h to 21h
Type occasional
Program
On-premisse classes.
Group exercise – doing a remake of a film excerpt. Special attention will be given to some of the classic aspects of shooting: working with the actors, scene lighting, team work and capturing sound.
Teachers
Price 300€ + 30€ (Insc) + 2,50 (Seg)
Schedule 6 a 22 Jan 2021: Wednesdays and Friday from 18h00 to 21h00; 27 Jan a 12 Fev 2021: Wednesdays and Friday from 14h00 to 17h00
Type occasional
Program
On-premise classes.
This workshop constitutes the first stage on the development of a personal project. Departing from an idea for a movie, students will find the model of writing that fits the nature of their own project. There will be analysis and discussion, individually and in group. Models of script writing for cinema and for other audiovisual formats will be introduced, as well as some tools useful for the writing process. Each participant should be able to present his or her idea in script form, so as to allow the shooting to begin by the end of the workshop.
Teachers
SAT Workshop: Cinema and Feminism
Date 6, 13, 20, 27 fevereiro e 6 março
Price 90€
Schedule Saturdays from 3pm to 5pm
Type occasional
Program
On-line classes.
Students will be invited to read and discuss some texts on cinematographic theory and feminism, as well as watch screenings and consider analysis of films that illustrate some of the critical discussions around the relations between feminism and cinema.
We will start by clarifying what feminism(s) we are talking about, trying to define at the same time what we can call feminist cinema.
Teachers
Workshop: Author Cinema – Arquive and Montage
Date 25 Feb to 22 Apr 2021
Price 200€ + 20€ (Insc) + 2,50€ (Seg)
Schedule Thursdays from 18h00 to 21h00
Type occasional
Program
On-premise classes.
This workshop is oriented towards the production of a small film, using archive images and sounds: public and institutional, personal and from the family circle, graphic, photographic or in movement. By appropriating these images and sounds extracted from their original contexts, we will re-edit and re-compose them into a new filmic object.
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