• 30.10.09: Shelly Silver*

• 03.11.09: Suzanna Helke**

• 09.11.09: Patrick Jolley

• 16.11.09: Mekhitar Garabedian

(*) Extra on 29.10.09:  masterclass KASK / HISK (a co-production with Argos Brussel)

Location: screening room, 2nd floor, HISK, 10:00-17:00, registration obligatory

(**) Extra on 03.11.09: presentation Ph. D. in Art, KASK

Location: Bartsoenzaal, 2nd floor, KASK, Bijloke, 14:00-18:00, free entrance
2-3pm: Lecture
3-4pm: discussion
4 pm till 6 pm: tutorials Hogeschool Gent – Doctoral schools

Since the pursuit of direct documentary was defined, the distinction between the documentary and the fictional has been grounded upon the difference between being another and representing oneself. As viewers, we assume that the people in documentary films are identical with historical individuals they portray.  In the mainstream tradition of documentary, the subjects are not primarily understood as characters in a story, but rather as representatives of and witnesses to the theme.² -Susanna Helke: A Trace of Nanook: Cinematic Methods Intertwining Documentary and Fictional Styles UIAH Publishing 2006.

Filmmaker and theorist Susanna Helke will lecture on the themes of her dissertation A Trace of Nanook: Cinematic Methods Intertwining Documentary and Fictional Styles and on the questions and dilemmas of the art-practice-based theorizing.

Registration for the tutorials: Petra.Vanderjeught@hogent.be