Seminar: More than Human in Filmmaking
Details
Level Beginner - No previous experience required
Must be at least 15 years old
Language English
Cost €25.00
(BFC members pay €22 join BFC while enrolling)
Student Pensioners €17
Unemployed €12
Membership page https://berlinfilmcommunity.com/membership.php
LocationOnline
Contact linda@berlinfilmcommunity.com
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In this 2-hour session, I will draw on indigenous knowledge, academic perspectives, and other sources to challenge the centrality of human narratives.
Together, we will explore how cinematic action can elevate the often unseen beings that we share our world with. I'll share practical techniques to decontextualize human-focused perspectives and incorporate the more-than-human into creative visual practices. This seminar will open new possibilities for storytelling, inviting a deeper connection to the natural and beyond-human world.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
- Introduction to an Ecological Frameworks in Visual Storytelling
- How Posthuman Theories challenge Anthropocentric Narratives
- Multimodal and Sensory Approaches in Filmmaking
- Indigenous Knowledge and Relational Ethics
- Recent Works (2023-2026) by Filmmakers and Artists
- Practical Techniques for Decentering Human Narratives
- How to open New Creative Possibilities
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YOUR MENTOR
Linda Paganelli is an artist, anthropologist, and filmmaker integrating more than human perspectives in her storytelling. Drawing on over 13 years of experience across diverse contexts, Linda guides participants toward non-extractive, ethically grounded visual practices that challenge dominant knowledge paradigms and foreground embodied positionalities. Since 2018, she has been working with More-Than-Human frameworks, creating short documentaries such as Journey of Waves and Imprinted, as well as installations including Carbon Spa in collaboration with scientists from the university of Twente (Netherlands) and ECO-MOURNING developed through the Community of Practice with CitizensLab (Germany). Her practice center interspecies relationships, ecological interdependence, and the agency of non-human beings in visual storytelling.