The seminar will again deal with different modes of filmmaking and confront us with a whole range of less well-known material outside mainstream cinema. The focus this time will be on different forms of first-person filmmaking as it may express itself in very different types of films. This concerns of course the home movie and the experimental film, but there will also be essay films, travelogues and even feature films. What are their different (aesthetic) strategies to bring about a personal cinema?

The seminar will again deal with different modes of filmmaking and confront us with a whole range of less well-known material outside mainstream cinema. The focus this time will be on different forms of first-person filmmaking as it may express itself in very different types of films. This concerns of course the home movie and the experimental film, but there will also be essay films, travelogues and even feature films. What are their different (aesthetic) strategies to bring about a personal cinema?