Category Archives: Media Collection

“El sexo sentido” has been awarded VISIBILIDART prize

“El sexo sentido” (Sex Sense) is a short documentary about youth, sex, love and fears. This video belongs to Doc Next Network media collection and has been made during the audiovisual workshop ZEMOS98 produced at El Viso del Alcor (Seville, Spain), in the IES Profesor Juan Bautista (June 2011).

We’d like to congratulate the media makers José Manuel Borrego, José Manuel Expósito, Pedro Fernández, Rosario Fernández, Noelia Fernández, Belén Márquez, José Antonio Márquez, Iván Ruiz Vergara, together with the coordination of Pablo Domínguez and Rubén Díaz (both members of ZEMOS98) because of the VISIBILIDART 2011 prize, given by COLEGADES (a LGBT association located in Cádiz, Spain).

The VISIBILIDART prize awards those cultural initiatives that make efforts to eradicate homophobia and to promote democratic values.

“El sexo sentido” has aroused great interest as it was broadcasted in the Spanish National TV (TVE) programme “Cámara Abierta 2.0”:

DNN@European Culture Congress

Next Doc Network presented its activities to the public in Poland for the first time. The opportunity to meet and people and talk about the DNN was one of a kind: the European Culture Congress saw over 200 thousand participants over 4 days. The program was filled with over 100 interdisciplinary projects prepared by 550 artists and curators.

Among them the Doc Next Network screenings of films made by young artists from across Europe and a purpose built container, where films were were watched at all times (including on special projections during night time), information was obtained and many interesting conversations were held. We issued special publications in Polish and English, and produced a video to promote our activities.

Visitors at the Doc Next Network container watched films and talked to hubs representatives, acquired DVDs with the special Congress pick of 11 films from the DNN collection, our t-shirts and bags (which proved hugely popular among the Congress audience). Our guests had their photos taken with a polaroid camera and kept a DNN branded portrait. If you didn’t get a chance to visit or follow the (almost) real time commentary on Association’s “ę” facebook page.

The Congress was also an opportunity to meet the network’s partners. We exchanged experiences gained while working on our projects. We looked for similarities and further opportunities for exchange and cooperation. We examined how we differ from each other and how this diversity can provide inspiration for further work. Hubs tirelessly debated the events of the IDFA 2011 – the next meeting of the network in November. See you in Amsterdam!

Further reading: the DNN materials at the European Culture Congress.

Association of Creative Initiatives “ę” is the Polish partner the Doc Next Network.

DNN in Wroclaw, Poland

Doc Next Network will be present at the European Culture Congress in Poland in September 2011. In Poland Doc Next Network will have hour-long screenings of selected films from the media collection on 8 + 11 September in the Festival Club. At the congres Doc Next Network has its own space in a container, designed by young Polish architects and graphic designers from Super Super and video artist Karol Rakowski.

This trailer was made especially for the European Culture Congress by our Polish hub partner Towarzystwo Inicjatyw Twórczych „ę”.

We are nominated!!!

Doc Next Network is nominated for the Erasmus EuroMedia Awards 2011!

The Erasmus EuroMedia Award is an annual prize, launched in 1995, to outstanding media productions contributing to the development of a European society. Doc Next has been nominated for its media collection and the entire network that is providing content to this media collection.

The award ceremony will take place on 14 October 2011 in Vienna. The ceremony is a meeting point for international media professionals. The afternoon presentation of the winners and the festive evening reception provide the ideal ambiences to socialise and exchange ideas. Covered by news media from all over Europe, the EuroMedia Awards attract attention to our work.

The EuroMedia Awards honour media productions that:

enhance the media discourse on Europe
provide a qualitative discussion of objectives, perspectives and challenges for the development of European Societies
relate to European topics like cohesion, social values, migration, identity, solidarity …
show an educational ambition
invest ideas and ambition in an European Public Sphere

Çanakkale 2010 – A Story of a Year

This publication tells the story of an unusual year-long civic project that took place in the Turkish city of Çanakkale in 2010, carried out by Anadolu Kültür, who have been closely involved with the ECF European Neighbourhood programme since 2005. Chosen by United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) as an example of good practice, the project encouraged the city’s entire population to get involved in cultural policies and activities – through workshops, focus groups, activities and meetings.
Downloadable in English and Turkish, this publication documents the project’s progress from start to finish in the words of the citizens themselves. It includes statements of mission and vision, activities that led to the development of a city-wide manifesto, press coverage showing the project’s visibility and evaluations of the project, as well as some suggested next steps.

The idea for Çanakkale 2010 was developed under the framework of ECF’s ‘(In)visible Cities’ project, which provided arts management training and advice to local cultural operators working on cultural projects in three different Turkish cities, including Çanakkale.

More information..

Exciting News from a BFI Video Art Bursary Winner

Some exciting news has been brought to our attention from mentor on the Video Art Bursary scheme here at the BFI, Phillip Warnell. Jacob Dwyer, who is a BFI Video Art Bursary Winner, was successful in being offered a place to study the brand new MA Experimental Film course at KingstonUniversity, London, which starts in October 2011. Jacob, who graduated Newcastle University this summer with an outstanding 1^st Class Honours degree in Fine Art, was then nominated by Phillip, who is also the director of studies on the course at KingstonUniversity, for an AHRX bursary to help him pursue this MA programme. Wonderfully he was successful in obtaining it. This bursary will cover his fees and maintenance costs for the duration of the one-year course.

Phillip added that he was “delighted that Jacob has been offered the opportunity, both in joining the MA Experimental Film programme atKingston, and in gaining such an award. His film work undoubtedly merits his success”.

Congratulations and good luck on the course Jacob!

Doc Next @ Documentarist 2011

With the initiative of MODE Istanbul, a 50-minute long short documentary film selection from the Doc Next Network media collection, including films completed at Youth MODE Media Workshops, will be screened at Documentarist 2011 Istanbul Documentary Days on Thursday June 2nd, 2011, at 18:00 in Sismanoglio Megaro venue in Beyoglu, Istanbul. Following the screening, a talk will be held with the participating young media-makers, instructors and MODE Istanbul representative about their past and current projects.

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Doc Next Media Collection

This film was made by Pavlos Stamatis (born 1989) from Greece. “This particular film has been influenced by the current situation in my country..”

Doc Next Network is collecting videos, stories, photos and other media art productions of all sorts of young people. With our focus on young, emerging European documentary-makers and opinion-formers, we are building up a broad collection of (alternative) documentaries.

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Doc Next Media Collection

The Doc Next Media Collection | Doc Next on Vimeo | Media Collection on MediActivism.eu | Curated Playlists

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Doc Next sustains an ever-growing collection of 500+ alternative media created by active citizens, artists and civil society groups from across Europe. This archive includes short films, remixes, mixed media, music videos, social commentaries, animations and artworks that document Europe’s most pressing social issues.

The Media Collection offers a safe space for activists to share their causes and to discuss how to mutually support each other in achieving their aims. The platform acts as an intermediary between the activist field and mainstream media, and aims to include the activist voices into the public sphere. This aim is supported by expanded media education offered by Doc Next partners, as it equips citizens to become equal contributors to the public sphere.

Films for different conversations

The Doc Next Media Collection is a unique living archive of socially conscious video making which has been growing steadily since 2007.

600 documentaries, short films, homemade videos, remixes, pieces of mixed media, music videos, animations, artistic films and comic films engaging with life in Europe and at its borders. They include:

Revealing amateur films made by with and for young people
Documentaries illustrating personal and collective memories
Observational portraits of towns, cities and villages
Illustrations of social tensions, protests and upheavals
Personal films looking at experiences of different identity groups
Documentaries showing day-to-day experiences of love, life and work
Artistic videos evoking feelings, emotions and dreamstates.

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Some highlights in the archive:

My Ukrainian A short film animating sinister attitudes to Ukrainian housekeepers in Poland.	Remembering A recent video portrait of an elderly woman who can remember the Armenian Genocide.	Faster, Harder, Stronger A fly-on-the-wall documentary exploring macho-culture and the insecurities which lie behind it on a night out in Istanbul.

Glued A cut and paste geopolitical history of the last 25 years from David Hasselhoff on the Berlin Wall to Helmand.	To Lapland A short film showing two well-educated Spanish men forced to move to Lapland to take work shoveling snow.	Rising Prices in the Bride Market A news report from a market in Romania where young girls are bought and sold.

Themes and categorisation

The videos are organised into seven themes which give an identity to the collection:

Social Struggles – the frontlines and faultlines of politics and power
Watching Places – films documenting places and the people who live in them
Memories – films made of personal and collective memories
Identities & Interests – experiences of individuals and groups with whom they identify
Everyday Life – documenting people at work, at play and in love
Youth – films made by, with and for young people
Moods – videos to feel more than read

The videos are also organised into more specific lists which provide a ‘face’ for the collection and are a way of making it easier to connect the collection to current affairs, anniversaries and reflect the Doc Next Network’s new areas of work.

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The collection is a resource for people who want to start different conversations.

It’s for teachers who want to bring ideas to life. For organisers who want to animate events and places and researchers who want to discover new perspectives on social issues in Europe. It’s also for filmmakers who are looking for content they can appropriate, reanimate and reuse.

At this moment the Media Collection is available on Vimeo, as a public showcase, and on ResourceSpace, a platform for professional distributors and researchers with private use.

We want to take all this valuable material onto a next level, by reorganising the content and improving the tools we have to build an open platform that is both a media archive and a device for telling new stories about Europe.

Youth MODE Çanakkale Belgesel Atölyesi filmleri

Youth MODE 2010 Çanakkale Belgesel Atölyesi filmlerini izleyebilirsiniz:
Sesler ve Gölgeler / Ece’giller / Şakir Abi Candır / Simgeleştiri

– Tüm Youth MODE Atölyeleri’nde hazırlanan videolar Vimeo sayfamızda…