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Books are there to be read, food is there to be tasted and films are there to be watched. Or are they? Do we really just read the books, digest stories as they are or simply devour food? What about that iconic cookie - madeleine - from Marcel Proust's book that triggered narrator's memories with its taste, or about margins of the paperback editions in our libraries that we fill with notes while reading? Spectatorship is by no means a passive process - we constantly tell ourselves stories, disagree, argue on the margins of the books read, films watched, or food tasted.

It's just that certain media lend themselves better to that kind of production and scribbling with the pen on the book seems natural to us. When we look at film we rarely see that possibility of changing it into a notebook, a canvas on which we could expose those emotions, insights and hesitant thoughts that often remain right at the tip of our tongues. Those things that are so hard to explain, but could be so easily shown to others if they sat by our side. 

In FilmArcades workshop we invite you to make a collaborative attempt of exploring those creative possibilities of spectatorship and interrogating films from the Eye Institute's Bits&Pieces collection, so that they unfold their mysteries to us in the process of reediting, juxtaposing and remixing.

The workshop is a real life extension of the Filmarcades: Atlas of the Emancipatory Spectatorship workstation and will be led by Filmacademie graduate Stanisław Liguziński and filmmaker/philosopher Kuba Mikurda. 

It's highly recommended to bring your own laptop with basic editing software.

Number of participants: 15 (5 reserved, 10 free) + 5-10 bystanders.

HOSTS:

Kuba Mikurda - a director and screenwriter based in Warsaw, Poland. He started as film critic, journalist and publisher, then worked as TV director and „Film News” talk show presenter for Canal+ Poland. 

Mikurda has studied psychology (MA, 2006), philosophy (PhD, 2012) and film production (2012-13). He was a student of the maverick philosopher and psychoanalyst, Slavoj Žižek. His main area of study is film theory, psychoanalysis and surrealism. 

He is currently working on a documentary film on Polish-French filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk and developing projects on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s unmade „Saint Paul” script and Slavoj Žižek’s.

Stanisław Liguziński - a film critic, doctoral student at the Institute of Audiovisual Arts of the Jagiellonian University in Poland and a budding filmmaker (currently graduating from Master Film course in Nederlandse Filmacademie). He wrote for major Polish media, edited journals, curated retrospectives and screenings for international film festivals and cultural institutions. He is conducting research into videographic forms of thinking, teaching university courses on film history and theory and participating in several audiovisual education programmes. Aside from the FilmArcades (exhibited at Groot Lab), he’s currently co-developing an archival project dealing with the notion of collaborative curatorship and artistic activism – Maagdenhuis2015 Arc.Hive.