Ralitsa Assenova
Ralitsa Assenova holds a PhD in European policies and practices in the field of film education for youth, National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA), Bulgaria. She is a founder of the Bulgarian NGO Arte Urbana Collectif and the initiator of its Cinema in School programme, including several European projects such as CinEd, Le Cinéma, Cent ans de jeunesse, Short Cut, Cinemini etc. Ralitsa works to spread cinema as an art among the youngest (3-19 years old) in and out of school, through specially designed projects, film festivals and numerous pedagogical resources.
Intuition as Knowledge: A Film Education Methodology
WORKSHOP
The workshop encompasses contemporary practices and pedagogical approaches, developed at national and European level, which make possible and fruitful the encounter of the youngest with cinema and classical film language. The approach is designed to be adapted to our time, characterised by fast, major and continuous change in the way we see, receive, broadcast and produce images.
Based on concrete extracts from films included in the CinEd collection, the workshop will propose to the participants to reflect on different cinema questions (such as shown/hidden, gaze and points of view, interiority and subjectivity etc.), on concrete images and shots and on their connection with other arts. Participants will be introduced to the stages I go through in a real environment with children and young people: starting from the initial description of a certain image (colours, characters, camera position, etc.), the student is able to gradually move to the analysis stage. In order to reach the analysis of the content and to develop a critical point of view of what he/she sees on the screen, he/she inevitably needs a process in which the gaze develops, experiments, and the student gains knowledge about cinematography, the place of the film in the director’s work, the technical aspects of the film, etc.