Konstantinos Karatzas, GIRES-Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship
The Program
Thematic 1 (Sunday-June 6, 2021)
A NECESSARY STARTING POINT
The pertinence of documentary film analysis within the research project. The objectives of documentary film analysis. The justification of a documentary film sample. The selection of useful theoretical tools for the analysis. The creation of an observation guide. Verifying results of our personal analysis. Duration: 3 hours
Thematic 2 (Sunday-June 13, 2021)
INTRODUCTION TO DOCUMENTARY STORYTELLING
Defining documentary film. Debating about objectivity and subjectivity. Differences from fiction and documentary films. The issue of representing reality. Contemporary polemics about documentary film. The relevance of documentary film for social sciences and humanities researchers. Ways of using documentary film in research. What to understand by documentary storytelling? Which ways is documentary storytelling necessary for socio-cultural researchers? Descriptive approach in documentary film analysis. Advantages and disadvantages. Duration: 3 hours
Thematic 3 (Sunday-June 20, 2021)
THE ARCHITECTURE OF DOCUMENTARY FILM
Deconstructive approach to documentary film. Possible morphologies. Narrative devices and agents. Analyzing characters, conflict and progression. Identifying structural paradigms. Rhetorical strategies. The use of tropes. The narrative thread and the argumentative lines. Relating images and sounds. The communicative and expressive dimensions of documentary film. Duration: 3 hours
Thematic 4 (Sunday-June 27, 2021)
FORMS AND ESSENCES OF DOCUMENTARY FILMS
Debating about form and content. Bill Nichols representation modalities. The forms of documentary film: direct cinema, testimonial documentary, self-referential documentary, experimental documentary, the docudrama and the reenactment into the documentary, animation documentary. Hermeneutical approach to documentary film: theme, point of view, thesis, objectives, conceptual dimensions, epistemological authority and authorial subjective intervention. Duration: 3 hours
Due to the restrictions of Corona Crisis our event (for the time being) will be virtual & Live