A three-day Film-making Workshop “HAIKU Happens”

Register for a three-day Film-making Workshop “HAIKU Happens” at DOCLAB
Deadline to register: 19 Oct 2014

From DOCLAB:

Announcing a three-day workshop “HAIKU happens” with following details:

When: 3 full days (morning and afternoon) October, 29-31 2014
Where: Hanoi Doclab, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc
Instructor: Werner Penzel (please scroll down for more information about Werner Penzel)
Class: maximum 15 people

Requirement:

– be able to attend all the sessions;
– should have filmming and editing equipments (since Doclab can only lend a limited amount of equipments)

Deadline for registration: October 19 2014

To register for the workshop, please fill in the Application form and send it back to [email protected] with the following subject “Application Haiku workshop-YOUR FULL NAME”

SHORT NOTE ON A THREE-DAY-WORKSHOP

“HAIKU happens” is a platform of filmmaking, a new and open Genre – inspired by the art of japanese Haiku-poetry: Make a movie out of 3 images.

We often see or sense something that gives us a bit of joy, or a moment of pure sadness.

Perhaps it is the funnies flapping in the breeze before a newsstand on a sunny spring day. Or some scent on the wind catches us as we step from the bus, or bend to lift the groceries from the car. Something tickles our ankle and, looking down to see what it is, we see more:

a baby crab
climbs up my leg –
such clear water

Or we are lying awake, alone with our thoughts, and as we turn to look at the clock

at midnight
a distant door
pulled shut

and we find ourselves more alone, because of the being on the other side of that door, than when we had no thoughts for others anywhere in the world.

The first of these two short poems was written about three hundred years ago by the Japanese poet Matsuo Basho. The second one is by a twentieth century poet, Ozaki Hosai. Both poems are haiku.

Jean-Luc Godard once said: “A movie consists of three parts: a beginning, a middle and an end – but not necessarily in that succession”.

Transferring the system of haiku-writing into movie-making might be the shortest (but not necessarily the easiest) way of making a movie: three shots in a line make one whole movie.

By practicing haiku-movie-making we can find out and learn about the essentials of moviemaking without getting locked up in too much theory, but rather learning by doing, discovering how to find the magic of a single moment and capture it at the same time with a running camera.

Not only accepting the unforeseen and unintentional but learning how to work with it by developing ways that allow chance and composition to work together in the editing-process too.

The three-day workshop will start in showing some of my work like “Step Across the Border”, “Middle of the Moment” and “Why should I buy a bed when all that I want is sleep” – explaining background and working methods as well as showing examples from the work of other filmmakers that are fruitful within the context.

We will then start to shoot material for film-haikus and edit it.

It would be practical if every participant has her/his own videocamera (working with the videofunction of a smartphone is another possibility) and laptop-editing-facility.

After looking at what we have found and edited, we will discuss it together. At the end every student will have one (ore more) haiku finished and we could present to ourselves and others a little DVD-edition „haiku happens“.

ABOUT WERNER PENZEL

Werner Penzel was born on the country-side in southern Germany in 1950, grew up in Hannover, Berlin, Cologne.
In the 60s he started playing music in various rockbands and wrote poetry, first published in R.D.Brinkmann’s literary underground-magazine “Der Froehliche Tarzan” ’68, before turning to movie making in the early 70s.

He began independent movie-making with “VAGABUNDEN KARAWANE”, “ADIOS AL ODIO” and other movies, worked and lived with the Brazilian theatre company „UZYNA“ in Sao Paulo, accompanied the “Living Theatre” through Europe, studied at Munich Film Academy, traveled through South and Central America, Amazonia, North Africa, India, the USA and Japan, where he spent time practicing in the Zen-monastery of Eiheiji.

In 1984 he founded the filmmakers’ Cooperative “Der Andere Blick” together with Nico Hofmann, Christian Wagner, Lutz Konermann, Fosco & Donatello Dubini, Nicolas Humbert and others.

In the 1990s he began working together with Nicolas Humbert founding the label “CineNomad” resulting in two movies for cinema “STEP ACROSS THE BORDER” and “MIDDLE OF THE MOMENT” which gained numerous film-awards and resulted in world-wide cinema distribution – as well as a video-installation-triptych “THREE WINDOWS” exhibited and becoming part of the collections of Contemporary-Art-Museums in Europe and Japan.

After founding “Laboratoire Village Nomade” in Switzerland 2004 – since 2009 he now lives and works in Japan, continuing movie-, art- and social-projects as well as teaching “mutual art” at various academies in Europe and Asia.

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