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MOVIES — Moving Images Arts

Iuav University of Venice postgraduate specialisation course on the moving image as an expressive medium in contemporary art and as a means to activate relational spaces for the arts. It offers an interdisciplinary approach with a programme that intersects visual and performing arts, graphics, architecture and curatorial studies.
Student: Martina Citarella Correa, 2021
Student: Marina Addis Waldmann, 2023
MOVIES aims to enhance the ability to critically evaluate one's own work, as well as to acquire skills in creating audiovisual works, including writing grant proposals for artistic productions. The seminars and workshops are led by curators, scholars, and artists who are active in festivals, research centres, museums, and foundations.

The postgraduate programme is aimed at emerging artists and creators working with moving images who wish to specialise in the production of artist films, multimedia installations, and complex audiovisual performances. The training pathway includes a project work or internship, carried out in collaboration with a master’s partner, a chosen institution, or an artist’s studio. The programme concludes with an exhibition of the new works developed during the course.

The fifth edition of MOVIES will last for one year (January 2025 – December 2025) and will comprise four modules. The first module will develop a basic theoretical pathway, while the second and third modules will focus on workshops with artists. The fourth module will be dedicated to the internship or project work and the thesis. Classes will primarily take place on Fridays and Saturdays, except for sessions with international guest lecturers, which will span four consecutive days.

Programme

Module I: The Moving Image and Contemporary Art

Masterclass: Zapruder, 2019
Screening: Basir Mahmood, 2018
Starting from the context of contemporary audiovisual production, this module delves into the relationships between moving images, visual arts, and the performative and sound arts. The topics covered in the lectures will range from pre-cinema devices to current installation forms, thereby mapping out films and videos as experimental, political, and performative practices capable of deconstructing the notions of framing, projection, and narrative. In this module, lecturers will explore these themes through screenings, seminars, workshops, and discussion panels with students. Additionally, the module offers theoretical-critical and practical approaches useful for investigating the relationships between sound and image, and between listening and viewing, with the aim of developing awareness in sound production and making appropriate choices in audiovisual production.

Submodules
• Moving Image and Visual Arts
• Moving Image and Performative Arts
• Sound production in Contemporary Arts

Class schedules
Friday and Saturday

Module II: Means of Production and Exhibition

Masterclass: Alterazioni Video, 2020
Masterclass: Enrico Pitozzi, 2019
Questioning the cinema hall as the privileged meeting place between the work and the viewer, this module will reflect on how artists can exhibit by engaging with architectural space. Through workshop activities involving dialogue, writing, and graphic presentation, this module will also provide critical tools for engaging with the world of curatorship, to optimally present an audiovisual work. Additionally, this module will include a focus on the funding and distribution opportunities available to emerging artists, such as grants, competitions, research fellowships, residencies, and participation in festivals, solo or group exhibitions. The lecturers will share and discuss their experiences, focusing on practical activities that will be collectively reviewed and discussed.

Submodules
• Ephemeral Architecture
• Curating the Moving Image
• Graphic Design ant the Moving Image

Class schedules
Friday and Saturday

Module III: Whorkshops

Masterclass: Danilo Correale, 2019
Masterclass: Rosa Barba, 2019
Students here are called upon to share their own research and production methods on an individual basis with the guest artist lecturer at the postgraduate’s course. Each such session will last four days, during which there will also be presentations and screenings by the guest artists, with a round table discussion to follow. Furthermore, this module includes appointments with local institutions engaged in active production, exhibition and conservation practices in the field of contemporary art.

Submodules
• Workshop 1–5

Whorkshop schedules
Wednesday to Saturday

Module IV: Project Work and Thesis

Student: Camilla Mazzocato, 2020
Student: Riccardo Androni Angeli, 2023
From the beginning of the course students are requested to develop a personal project of artistic production that will be displayed collectively at the end of the year in a Venetian space. The feasibility of the project and exhibition proposal will be discussed with course coordinators in group sessions once every two months. The formal and conceptual themes and contents of the project may also be shared and discussed with the artists during studio visits. At least one development phase of the project will have to be carried out in collaboration and dialogue with a partner institution of the Postgraduate’s course or an external institution (including artists’ studios, subject to agreement), for a minimum of 250 hours.

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Registration
Application deadline
September 10, 2024, 12:00pm (CEST)

Interviews
September 16, 2024, 09:00am (CEST)

Admission list
September 23, 2024

Matriculation
October 3, 2024

Start
January 10, 2025

Registration fee: €50
1st semester: €3,000
2nd semester: €3,000

Grants (Italy): Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Lazio, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Liguria, Lombardia, Marche, Piemonte, Puglia, Sardegna, Toscana, Valle d’Aosta

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Requirements
A Bachelor’s degree, basic knowledge of image, video and text editing tools, digital portfolio (max. 16 pages, 5 MB). Please note that most of the courses will be taught in English.

A remote video interview will be requested after the application. The minimum admission score is 60 out of 100. Up to a maximum of 15 students will be admitted.

For detailed information on enrolment procedures, please consult this page or contact master@iuav.it and info@mov-ies.eu
Where and When
Palazzo Badoer, Iuav University of Venice, San Polo 2468, 30125 Venice

January to July 2025
Classes: Friday and Saturday
Studio visits: Wednesday to Saturday

August to November 2025
Project work: 250 hours

December 2025 to January 2026
Final exhibition and graduation

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