Category Archives: Network Activities

Doc Next examines copylaw alternatives

On 21 and 22 February, Doc Next Network attended a workshop on intellectual property related to media and culture. This two-day workshop in London gave a comprehensive view of copyright law, so that we are able to understand why copyright exists and how it works.

Central issue how can copyright law serve the purposes, goals and needs of the participants and the Doc Next media collection.

Given the existing legal framework, we analysed the law to see what licences would be the best fit for our media collection. We focused on open licences like Creative Commons, to see why they were created and how they work. As a conclusion and practical outcome the workshop ended proposing, with the contribution of all the participants, we chose the legal tool that can best serve our goals.

During the workshop we encountered a void within the legal system considering copylaw: no legal tool fits so-called mashups or other derivative works. Workshop moderators Eva Sòria (historian) and Abel Garriga (attorney) took the challenge and will stay involved in Doc Next Networks quest for an alternative copyright / -left.

Looking forward to Poland.doc 2

This year, the Association “e” is creating an alternative production studio, Young Creators CO-OP, in which we hope to provide good conditions for development for young creators. The studio will operate on the rule „from idea to realisation”, meaning that we want to see the project through all the way to post-production.

At “e”, we organise workshops, exhibitions, open screenings, portfolio reviews, we produce debut films and photographic projects (Poland.doc, Film Preschool, Photopresentations, Snapshots). In thinking about the modern media education professionalisation of cultural workers is vital for us, along with investing in young artists who can combine their artistic potential with a sense of social mission and share their skills with younger generations.

Along these theme, in 2011 we organised five multimedia workshops for young people with little experience in film and/or photography during the summer holidays. The theme of explorations in film and photographic workshops was “Local Hero”. In line with our plans a total of 5 short documentary forms were created: three photographic projects (photocasts) and two short film etudes. On the last day of the workshop during an official showcase each group presented its short documentary to a wide audience. The screenings attracted a lot of interest. In one of the towns where we held workshops, Kołbacz, almost entire town was present at the premiere (the film has been shown 4 times since).

We promote young documentary work in Poland and abroad. In 2012 we would like to continue our activities in this field with the almost entire town was presentecond edtion of Poland.doc, within the Doc Next Network.

Watch films and photographs from our summer workshops at Poland.doc website.

A new workshop: HTML5 and open video possibilities

0. What

“Posibilidades del Open Video y el HTML5” (HTML5 and Open Video possibilities) is a research, educational and work-in-progress project that will be developed using Open Video and the new HTML5 standard.

The main goal of this project is to develop an interactive audiovisual tool for the internet. Contents and developments resulting from the project will be open and free (in the sense of free software).

1. How

This project will make possible to mix and remix video, audio, photos and links using the internet. This project will be a part of the Audiovisual Source Code methodology, so it will develop audiovisual mixtapes from online audiovisual sources. Everything will be online.

2. When

The project has three phases

PHASE 1: Workshop on HTML5 and Open Video, by A Navalla Suiza
12th-14th December 2011 @Sevilla

Contents

Introduction to HTML5
Open Video possibilities
Audiovisual Examples
Popcorn.js or similar development frameworks

The objective is to develop a simple collaborative audiovisual project in HTML5.

Programme:

1. Introduction to HTML5: HTML, CSS, Javascript.

2. Online video and audio: why it is important that video and audio were HTML elements, video/audio formats, browsers, interaction with HTML elements.

A. Practice: show a video in a HTML document, check the code and features.

3. Use of javascript to develop video/audio events

B. Practice: Using the native javascript API

4. Frameworks and tools to develop video/audio on the net

5. Use of popcorn.js, $media and audio APIs

C: Practice: Design a collaborative project

PHASE 2: Intensive development of the tool

15th-17th December 2011 @Sevilla

PHASE 3: Presentation of the tool with info/documentation of the development process.

April 2012 @Festival UBICUA 2012 (Sevilla)

Who

A navalla suíza is an Internet communication company focused on web development services, social networks and video-based websites. We also develop digital culture & society contents, in particular those related with digital storytelling and crowdsourcing.

With

An initiative by ZEMOS98 for the Doc Next Network, supported by the ECF Youth&Media Programme and CICUS LAb “Sueño Digital” (University of Sevilla)

Youth MODE Documentary Workshop in Izmir

MODE Istanbul will be organizing a creative documentary workshop in Izmir between January 30th and February 5th. The national applications are closing this Friday, the 13th of January.

Participants will be given seminars on creative documentary making, screenwriting, digital camera techniques and editing. They will shoot 5 minute documentaries on the theme of “Local Heroes of Izmir”. All documentaries completed during the workshop will be added to the Doc Next Network’s Media Collection.

The workshop will be held in collaboration with Bornova Municipality’s 4 Seasons 4 Colors Workshops and with the support of the universities in Izmir, mainly the Izmir Ekonomi University. All films made during the workshop will be showcased as part of the 4 Seasons 4 Colors Screening Event on Febuary 23rd .

For more information on the application guidelines and the online form please click here.

Poland.doc Inspirations available in English

Inspirations is a series of articles, interviews and videos written with young creators and culture animateurs in mind.

The series opens with a documentary series How to make a film, created by Polish documentary maker Piotr Stasik for the public television channel Kultura. Texts range from general reflections on being creative (To be creative by cultural animateur at the Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Maria Parczewska) to practical advice (Photography in work with children by Association “ę”’s own Agnieszka Pajączkowska).

With something to liven up the minds of every one interested in film, photography or more broadly creative work, Inspirations invite the reader to challenge themselves – to be inspired.

Full list of articles and videos is available at the Poland.doc website.

All episodes of How to make a film also available on the Association “ę” Vimeo channel.

DNN screening at Seville European Film Fest

Esta tarde a las 19h en el I+CAS proyectamos una selección de vídeos pertenecientes a la media collection de la red Doc Next.

Los vídeos que se proyectarán en el Seville European Film Fest son los siguientes:

A Way by Sergey Kirasyan (Armenia)
Biżuteria Publiczna by Iwo Kondefer (Poland)
Bracia by Emi Mazurkiewicz (Poland)
Ece’esque by Bahar Demirkan, Okyar Igli, Hayati Kose and Morteza Moghaddam (Turkey)
Grown up at age of 11in Macedonia by Vladimir Tevcev (Macedonia)
Guilty until Proven Innocent by Danyal Laskar (UK)
Launderette by Bertie Telezynski and Alex Nevill (UK)
Lost in Translation by Akile Nazli Kaya (Turkey)
Sex Sense by José Manuel Borrego, José Manuel Expósito, Pedro Fernández, Rosario Fernández, Noelia Fernández, Belén Márquez, José Antonio Márquez, Iván Ruiz Vergara and Pablo Domínguez (Spain)
The last communist in Berlin by Robin Meurer (Germany)
TRON by Felipe G. Gil (Spain)
Zero Point by Gjorgje Jovanovic (Macedonia)

IDFA, here we come!

Nazli (left) and Selin (right)

Two young DIY media-makers from Turkey, Akile Nazli Kaya (31) and Selin Gunduz (21), are ready to participate IDFA 2011 next week as part of the Doc Next filmmakers group that will take part in the IDFAcademy and all related events. Nazli’s film “Ebb and Tide” is among the ten short Doc Next documentaries that will be screened at IDFA 2011 prior to the feature length films. Two other films from Turkey, “Ece’esque” (dir. Ozge Yesilcimen, Bora Balbey, Bade Selcuk, Caner Kececi) and “Dear Brother Sakir” (dir. Bahar Demirkan, Okyar Igli, Hayati Kose and Morteza Moghaddam), which were made during Youth MODE Workshops, will be screened at IDFA’s Doc Next Mini Cinema section featuring continual screenings of a selection from the Doc Next Media Collection.

Nazli is an awarded animator/director/designer working and studying in Prague. Nazli’s productions focus on important themes such as immigration, food security and personal freedom. Her biggest ambition in life is to make creative, innovative and inspiring short animated films and documentaries that address social and environmental issues. Her dream is to open an animation studio in Prague and Istanbul that will create socially and environmentally concerned ‘green’ films.” Her film in IDFA 2011 program “Ebb and Tide” is about a young woman reading from her diaries about her life in the Czech Republic while showing the life of her parents, who also temporarily immigrated to another country. As an interpretation of home videos made on S8, the film’s emotionally charged story challenges the existing imagery of Turkish people living in Europe. Nazli’s awarded animation documenaries “Zlin Soup” and “Nazli in Zlin” are also in the Doc Next Media Collection. She is currently working on a new ‘green’ film “The Seed”.

Selin is an aspiring DIY filmmaker with tremendous self-motivation. She did not attend university nor did she receive formal media education, but she pushes herself to learn more about filmmaking, screenwriting, photography and acting by attending certificate programs, workshops and seminars. Selin participated the Youth MODE Documentary Workshop in Canakkale last year and made the film “Sounds and Shadows“, also included in the Doc Next Media Collection,
with fellow workshop participants Erkan Atay, Ahmet Turan and Alper Dutkin. “To me, filmmaking is not a temporary interest. It has captured me completely. I want to build my life on it, I am saving money by working other jobs in order to make films and also to attend screenings and other film related events,” says Selin, who now works on the script for her new short film and is preparing a documentary on internet censorship in Turkey.

We wish both ladies the best of time at IDFAcademy and we are also very excited to be joining them in Amsterdam next week!

Click here to read more about the IDFAcademy participants and program.

“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”:

Recordar.TV, listening to our elders

Within DNN media collection, there are 5 categories or themes. One of these categories is the present past, described as «how the past affects the stories and experiences of different generations».
Well, here we have a project that absolutely deal with this topic: Recordar TV (Remember TV).

Recordar TV (Remember TV) is an internet television built up from the perspective of the elderly. It aims to encourage digital literacy among this collective, promote their stories, which do not often take part on the net, and also help with the local issues that could be of public interest on the internet. This is an internet television project, therefore we will not only publish videos, we will take advantage as well of the multimedia languages that are possible on the web.

You can find an English version of the project’s dossier here

The elderly of our society have many things to tell us and Recordar TV has a vocation for listening to them. We would like to encourage those stories which are not usually present on the web and look after local worries subject to public interest and also being creative at the same time. And we would like to do it through an internet television. But not just any television on the internet, but one which is made from the perspective of the elderly. For and by them. And, in that way, help out with the digital literacy of this wide social group, which is highly relevant nowadays in the current paradigm in which life expectancy keeps increasing.

The lack of communication of a society with their elders usually is not an issue of age difference, neither it is due to diverse generations not understanding one another. Sometimes it happens that the tools we use to do it are just different. Because growing older not necessarily means stop being young. That is the reason why we want to share the tools that exist nowadays with people that did not have, for whatever reason, the chance to get to know or handle them with ease to make them part of their everyday life.

We are going to explore the lands where languages get mixed up, where prejudices vanish away, where lives cross one another. We are going to play again.

Because it is never too late to learn. And it does not matter how much you know, but how willing you are to keep learning.

Last session of Poland.doc

At the last session we discussed our projects. We spoke to experts about issues such as preparing a budget for a photography project, talking to commissioning editors, who order documentary films for TV stations, which young film festivals are worth attending, preparing one’s portfolio and using Internet for promotion of your work. During the Ideas Market participants could ask the advice of: Barbara Webel (Kino Polska, tv channel), Anna Wydra (Otter Films, production company), Anna Bierzańska (Dragon Forum, documentary development academy), Joanna Kinowska (Zachęta National Gallery), Tomasz Gutowski (Photography Month in Krakow) and Witek Orski (Czułość Gallery).

The last session also provided an occasion to share our experiences from the holiday workshops we held for kids and youth around Poland.

At the end we put our practical skills in to practice by creating a short video spot.

Now comes the time for making last changes in our film and photographic projects. We edit, put photography series together. The effects will be published in mid-October.

More photos on flickr of Association “ę”

Also see: the website of Poland.doc