Dear all,
We’re pleased to have Iris Blauensteiner as guest lecturer at this week’s class meeting.This will be a valuable insight into her dramaturgic approach, hope to see many of you there :)
I wonder about the images I see.
Narrative paths through videofootage
Iris Blauensteiner introduces her artistic and practical approach to narration along the process of making the film "The world is blue at its edges" (essay film, 15min, 2021, in collaboration with Christine Moderbacher). She is interested in the visible in relation to narrative gaps and ellipses that carry the potential of the imaginary. This workshop aims to discuss how dramaturgical concepts, structures and narrative models can be used as support or orientation to extract and clarify a story. Likewise, they can help to undermine, subvert or irritate narrative conventions and to experiment with organizing principles. Script writing and editing can be understood as a search for traces, as an invitation to “listen” to the material itself and thus to decide within the countless possibilities of producing narrative meaning.
Iris Blauensteiner works as a filmmaker and author. She studied ‚Art & Digital Media‘ at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Film- and Theatre theory at the University of Vienna. Her films, the latest "The world is blue at its edges" (2021), "the_other_images“ (2018), "Rest“ (2016) and "Sweat" (2014) were screened at international festivals. Her novels "Kopfzecke" (2016) and "Atemhaut" (2022) were published by Kremayr & Scheriau. She is a member of the Golden Pixel Cooperative - association for moving images, arts and media. She received various awards and grants for film and literature.