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The Polish partner of the StrangerFestival invites you to take part in a Stranger workshop. You as participant will work in cooperation with professionals during the workshop on your own film.

As participant you should:
- be between 15-25 years old
- submit their filled application form to: zuzanna.ciesielska@gmail.com (deadline is 10 November)
- not be a participant in previous StrangerFestival workshops

Place of the Workshop: venue of the All Arts Creators Association (Stowarzyszenie Twórców Sztuk Wszelakich – STSW) in ul. Lubelska 30/32 (MAP) + (http://stsw.org/blog/?page_id=5) DATE: November 18-23, 2008 (Tuesday-Sunday) from 10 a.m. through the whole day. Participants will be allowed to plan their work schedule individually. As participant you have to choose between 7 different workshops and indicate this on the application form. The seven workshops are:

WORKSHOP 1: ADDITION FROM IMAGINATION
Agnieszka Kosobucka
My workshop is for people interested in experiments with their own imagination using animation techiques. Participants will continue a film story. After having seen a film scene participants will get a camera and begin to create the continuation of the story. The idea is to build new associations on the received picture and extend it this way. The aim is to allow imagination to work freely and obtain life from a seemingly dead object. The last phase will be editing the film in the program final cut and creating sound effects.

WORKSHOP 2: LOOK MORE CAREFULLY
Magda Mosiewicz
In the course of the workshop participants will make short films inspired by contemporary drama texts. Obligatorily, the films will be docummentaries. During five days of the workshop we will work on the screenplay, learn basics of the film language (rules of framing, rythm of shots, camera movements), learn abot film photography and editing. But above all, we will excercise our eyes, ears and head, and sharpen a sense of observation. I count on your imagination and big emotions.

WORKSHOP 3: ФАЛЬШАК / SPOOF
Oleg Blyablyas
The camera work can be of various kind. Each participant should make their own film based on the associations with hypocrisy, and emotional and intuitive understanding of honesty. Spoof accompanies us all the time in various forms: it can be ironic, intelligent, cynical or covered with the „good and eternal”. For example: non-stop chatter of radio and video DJs; bank credits commercials; news; various kinds of fight for and against; useless subjects in school. Young people are extremely sensitive to Spoof. It will be cool when they notice, while shooting their films, how incompatible Spoof is in their life.

WORKSHOP 4: MY POINT OF VIEW
Piotr Głowacki
Close your eyes and calm down your breath. What can you see? Nobody can see what you can see. This is your point of view on the passing time. Do you want to share it with others? Stop it. Make a film. In the course of the workshop we will catch fragments of the world we see in simple drawing programs: Paint and Animate, using a portable console Nintendo DS Life.

WORKSHOP 5: CITY ESSAY
Szczym
During the workshop we will make a series of video essays about a city. These will be one-minute films presenting (hopefully) a subjective observation of the city reality, put together in a coherent convention of the series and graphic design, which will be also created from scratch at the workshop. We will work in a group of five, so each participant will have an opportunity to take part of an editor, cameraman or sound effect person. An ability to observe, synthesise and work in a team would be an advantage. So would a natural passion for the city.

WORKSHOP 6: FILM BAND
Adam Witkowski
I assume each participant of the workshop will make two short films. The first will be edited only on the camera that had shot it. We'll pay attention to the moment of the recording, choice of frames, length of the take, sounds of the recording. The result of this work will be a one-minute film with a maximum number of film and sound shots. The second production will be based on digital, non-linear editing of a 15-minute take in the one-shot technique. Non-linear editing means the film is made of a number of takes without keeping continuity. Such disturbance of narration and original sound will let us have a different look at the original audio-visual material.

WORKSHOP 7: MOVING THE PICTURE. VIDEO-ART VS. FILM
Wojtek Ziemilski
Let's start with the fact: I am here. I'm bringing something with me, I'm someone, I know something. We'll start with seemingly trivial things to get to the essence of the film: picture, tension, narration... We will delve and check if the most interesting stories aren't somewhere close, by any chance. Can we provoke them? The camera will be our tool of docummenting rather than a tyrant imposing things on us. We'll try to look for different modes of telling stories and consider various filming conventions. At the same time we'll try to distinguish between „literature” and the story which actually happens on the screen – we will check how the things on the screen refer to our ideas. But above all we will rack our brains how to „eat” something we don't know?

Go for more information to:
Warsaw: Dominik Skrzypkowski, phone: 792793317, Zuzanna Ciesielska, 513010793
Gdańsk: Iwona Katarzyńska, phone: 603508663, 058/ 3445420, ik@kulturamiejska.pl
Lidka Makowska, 603656833