Below you’ll find a summary of the Greenhouse for Students Cycle 2023 - 2024. 

Participants
Faye Bezemer, Jan Verburg, Melle Posthuma de Boer, Jamy Guda, Maarten van Huissteden, Maarten de Schutter, Lionelisa Gerding, and Wianda Rozendaal and Luna van Gijtenbeek.

Programme
14 November | 17.15-20:45

Idea Lab #1 - Questioning (What? Why?) - Raphael Rodan
The main goal of the session is to explore ideas and clarify the nature and key terms of the inquiry of participants by connecting them to their unique subjective POV and experience. We want to instigate an open dialogue to establish the group itself as one of the critical core elements of the research process. What is it that you want to know and why? What is the proposed research project trying to find out? What is the enquiry? What will you practically do while pursuing your interest?

28 November | 17.15-19:00
ONLINE: Case Study #1 - Eliane Esther Bots and Kevin B. Lee

Eliane Esther Bots is a Dutch filmmaker and visual artist based in The Hague. She mostly works within the realm of documentary film, sometimes expanding this into installation, performance, audio works and publications. Eliane recently joined the core team of the Master’s in Artistic Research in and through Cinema at the Academy of which she is an alumna. 

Kevin B. Lee is an award-winning filmmaker, media artist, and critic. He has produced over 360 video essays exploring film and media that have been shown across the world. He has edited and written for a number of publications. He is Professor of the Future of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts at Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano in cooperation with the Locarno Film Festival.

12 December 2023 | 17.15-20:15
Idea Lab #2 - Experimentation and Methods (How?) - Albert Elings & Eugenie Janssen

From the ‘what’ of the research we discuss the ‘how’. In a playful hands-on manner participants will generate ideas for experiments, and reflect on the position of experimentation and other research activities in the context of an evolving/unfolding research proposal.

19 December | 17.15-19:00
ONLINE: Case Study #2 - Sabine Groenewegen and Emilio Reyes Basail

Sabine Groenewegen is a filmmaker, artist. Her work has been selected for festivals such as FIDMarseille and DocLisboa and screened at BOZAR Brussels and ICA London. 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. 

Emilio Reyes Bassail is a Mexican visual artist. His work operates as an ongoing methodological research into memory, narrative and the construction of history. Constantly experimenting with different mediums and forms, his body of work comprises of radio pieces, video art, film, experimental literature, sound installations, illustration and music.

16 January | 17.15-20:15
Idea Lab #3 - Documentation and Publication (For Whom?) - Stanisław Liguziński and Julian Ross

Here we identify what areas of participants’ research might be interesting to whom, and how to communicate them. Focusing on one primary outcome, we often neglect valuable insights that are being created on the ‘sidelines’ of our research which could be useful to others as methods, making of’s, instructions, warnings etc. If a director found an interesting method to work with actors while working on a film could it be made into a workshop? If a sound designer recorded a soundscape during a location scout that revealed something interesting about the environment could it be made into a podcast?

Looking at the potential recipients of your work, we will speculate what kind of additional knowledge/value we create and how to bring it across to others.

13 February | 17.15-20:45
Idea Lab #4 - Conceptualisation (What-Why-How to Whom?) - Cristiana Strava

In the last session, we revisit all the previously-asked questions in order to reformulate our research by looking at what everyone has done or intended to do. We will try to identify together what knowledge we might have produced in our time together, what knowledge we still hope to muster, and how to put that across to others.

Tutors

Mieke Bernink has been Head of Research (Lector/Professor) at the Netherlands Film Academy since 2008, when she was invited to set up a Master’s programme. Alongside her continuing interest in the combination of artistic research and pedagogy, her focus as Head of Research is also on creating the possibilities for makers, teachers and students to understand, develop and share their practices as research.

Albert Elings is a Dutch documentary maker and film editor. Besides art and film school, he holds an MA in Cultural History from Utrecht University. Many of his films are characterised by a preoccupation with the aesthetics of temporality. Five of his films were screened at IDFA. Together with Eugenie Jansen, he has made several documentaries.

Eugenie Jansen is a Dutch director of documentary films and fiction features and a combination between both genres. She graduated in 1991 from the Netherlands Film Academy.

Stanislaw Liguzinski is Research Coordinator at the Netherlands Film Academy, co-director of the Essay Film Studio of Łódź Film School in Poland, and the head VR programmer of Imagine Film Festival. As a graduate of programmes in media, film and critical theory but also the Master of Film at the Academy, he combines both practice and theory to develop credible forms of practice-based research in XR and film. 

Raphael Rodan is an award-winning theatre maker and storyteller. Apart from regular drama school, he had private lessons with the Israeli theatre master Hillel Neeman, and an extensive immersion in the Meisner technique. His work has received international recognition at theatres and festivals all over Europe. He created The Mezrab Storytelling School with Farnoosh Farnia and Sahand Sahebdivan, working both with ancient and personal stories and examining the connection between them.

Julian Ross is a curator, researcher and writer. He did his PhD on Japanese 1960-70s expanded cinema at the University of Leeds, and works as an Assistant Professor at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. He’s also a guest lecturer and former mentor at the Master of Film at the Netherlands Film Academy. 

Cristiana Strava is an Assistant Professor in the School of Middle Eastern Studies at Leiden University. She was trained as a visual anthropologist at Harvard where she was part of the Sensory Ethnography Lab, and received her PhD from SOAS, University of London. Her multimodal work sits uncomfortably at the intersection of ethnography, Marxist geography, and studies of the (post/colonial) state.

NFA Research Weekend
13-14 September 2024

The first of its kind, this event provided a live platform for the Greenhouse students, Greenhouse teachers and staff members, Research Group and everyone else that makes up the Film Academy’s rich research community to come together and share where their curiosity has led them, both with each other and with their audience. Keeping in tune with our mission as a Research Department – which values process over outcome – the programme was a diverse collection of different forms that presented the research efforts and progress of our community. It also acted as an important moment to help researchers gather feedback to refine their ideas. 

Read more about the NFA Research Weekend here