Below you’ll find a summary of the Greenhouse for Teachers Cycle 2022 - 2024. 

Participants 

Menno Otten, Lonneke Worm, Sabine Groenewegen, Faye de Wilde and Sound Design Team 

Programme

10 November (19.30 - 21.30)
Lecture one: The Questions of practice-based artistic research by Mick Wilson

11 November (10.00 - 15.00)
Work session one: Questioning (What? Why?) - Mick Wilson

24 November (19.30 - 21.30)
Lecture two: Systems of your own design – developing methodologies and experimentation in practice -based research - Joost Rekveld

25 November (10.00 - 15.00)
Work session two: Methods and Experimentation (How?) - Nduka Mntambo and Joost Rekveld

8 December (19.30 - 21.30)
Lecture three: From screen to page and stage - documentation and publication of practice-based research - Eliane Esther Bots

9 December (10.00 - 15.00)
Work session three: Documentation and Publication (To whom?) - Eliane Esther Bots and Stanislaw Liguzinski

15 December (19.30 - 21.30)
Lecture four: Creating/facilitating workshops as a research tool - Jyoti Mistry

16 December (10.00 - 15.00)
Work session four: Conceptualisation (What-Why-How-To Whom) - Jyoti Mistry

Facilitators 

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.

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. 

Mick Wilson is an artist, educator and researcher based in Gothenburg and Dublin. He is currently a Professor of Art and Director of Doctoral Studies at HDK-Valand (University of Gothenburg), appointed on both academic and artistic grounds. He is trained as both an artist and historian of art and design and has held many different academic and publishing positions.

Joost Rekveld is an artist who is motivated by the question of what we can learn from a dialogue with machines. His abstract films have been shown world-wide. He had retrospectives at the Barbican in London and the Ann Arbor film festival amongst others, and in 2017 he was filmmaker in focus at IFFR. From 2008 until 2014, he led the ArtScience Interfaculty at the Royal Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.

Nduka Mntambo is an image-maker working in the interstices of urban spatial practices, experimental filmmaking, and pedagogy. He is former Head of the Film and Television program at the Wits School of Arts (WSOA), and the current head of the Master’s Artistic Research in and through Cinema at the Academy. He has worked extensively as a theatre and film production designer, commissioned works for public broadcasters and holds a PhD in Film. 

Eliane Esther Bots is a filmmaker, artist and educator. She has BA from the HKU and graduated cum laude from the Master of Film: Artistic Research in and through Cinema. She is currently a lecturer of Moving Image at the HKU in Utrecht. Her films, which develop through documentary-based research and encounters with others, have been screened at festivals across the world.

Jyoti Mistry is a filmmaker and researcher. She is professor of Film at HDK-Valand Academy. She holds a PhD, and a Master in Cinema Studies awarded by the New York University, and an MFA in Comparative Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand. She has made critically acclaimed films and installations, which draw from cinematic traditions while reconstructing the linear cinematic experience for the gallery and museum spaces. Her works have screened at numerous festivals.

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.