• New ways of embodied teaching
  Menno Otten [GT, Erasmus+]

How to redefine the classroom for theoratical film education? How can embodied teaching inspire students to embrace film theory from their own fascination and how can they tap into new ways of creativity?

Bio:
Menno Otten graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in 2009 with a degree in Documentary Directing. He is the director of documentaries such as In een Vergeten Moment, Via Dolorosa, Face to Face, and more recently, the found-footage film The Sacrifice. He is also the creator and director of the international acclaimed children's series Hoofdzaken (Talking Heads) . Additionally, he has produced video installations for museums (Samsung’s Moving Mesdag, M.A.S Antwerp, Eye) and works as an editor (Maalstroom, A.sy.Lum, Inside Our Lives) and street photographer (City Faces). Since 2010, he has been a guest lecturer at the Netherlands Film Academy. As of May 2019, he also holds the title of Lecturer in Film in Context at the Academy.

• Dimensions of experience, (how) can we analyse / create experiences?
  Victorine van Alphen [GT]

A space can be experienced differently through color, a movement can be experienced differently because of a text we have read just before, a human connection can be forged with an ‘other’ because of a smile of an actor in the waiting room. If all dimensions of our experience are analytically separated, then we see again how intrinsically interwoven they are. My artistic research is an epistemological paradox, an exercise for observation (and creation). Never may we truly analyse an experience completely, but forcing it with this model into pieces shows new qualities that may inspire us. 
With examples from own artistic experiments worldwide and other works of art we will co-explore some of these complex dances in which both the power and the powerlessness of this researched model come to the fore. 

Bio:
Audiovisual Artist, Philosopher & Curator Victorine van Alphen (1988) creates trans-media works that (mis)use and extrapolate current techno-cultural trends into futuristic experiences. Embodying her experience as performer and  philosopher she combines media to imagine beyond ‘classical’ human tensions such as nature-culture, rational-sensual, control-surrender, material-immaterial, analog-digital and real-virtual. 

Victorine’s graduated cum laude from the Master’s programme at the Netherlands Film Academy with her immersive work IVF-X: Posthuman Parenting in Hybrid Reality which won the Golden Calf at the Netherlands Film Festival for the best digital production, in 2021. She is a curator for the Kaboom animation festival and the VR Days in Europe. 

Victorine is also lecturer Immersive Media and VR Academy at the Netherlands Film Academy.

• Passion is blind – safety and wellbeing in the Dutch film industry
  Faye Bezemer [GS]

Working conditions in Europe's creative industries are challenging. Many artists face precarious working conditions, low, irregular and unpredictable incomes, high levels of self-employment, project-based careers and a lack of legal structures that provide social protection and sustainable frameworks for their career development. Despite art's recognized social and economic value, the sector suffers from poor conditions, worsened by the COVID-19 crisis. The EU has called for improved working environments through legislative initiatives and national efforts, like the recent Dutch "Guideline on Safe and Healthy Working in the Audiovisual Sector." These top-down solutions are essential, but cultural change must also come from within the industry. How can we as filmmakers shape a new working culture for ourselves? 

Bio:
Faye Bezemer (2000) is a fourth-year production student at the Netherlands Film Academy. During the Greenhouse for Students programme, she researched  safety and wellbeing on set. 

• I Was in Their Company - Spectral Presences and Experimental Citation in Cinema Practice
  Sabine Groenewegen [GT]
  
  Performance lecture offering insight into my ongoing research and practice on experimental citation in cinema and moving image.

Bio:
Sabine Groenewegen is an award-winning filmmaker and artist. Her science fiction found footage film Odyssey(2018) won awards including the Doc Alliance Selection Award. Her work has been selected for international festivals including FIDMarseille and DocLisboa and screened at venues including BOZAR Brussels and ICA London. Recently, her short film Remanence (2024) premiered in the competition of Cinéma du Réel at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Her installation work has been shown at Experimental Art Space, 1646, Stroom Den Haag, Kunstfort Vijfhuizen and the Wereldmuseum in Amsterdam. In the summer of 2024 she hosted the workshop Counter Archive: Fictional Healing with Michelle Williams Gawmaker in Malaysia Design Archive. Sabine is a lecturer in the MA Lens-Based Media at the Piet Zwart Institute of the Willem de Kooning Academy and an occasional guest lecturer at the Master programme of the Netherlands Film Academy.