Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen

 

This discussion series, introduced in 2006, has established itself as a forum where scholars, curators, artists and authors discuss aesthetic, technological, political and economic issues concerning the short format.

 

The following topics will be discussed in 2010:

 

The Idea of the Self

Children and the Creative Moving Image

 

Previous topics of discussion:

 

2009

Whatever became of...the European Capital of Culture?; Copyright and the Moving Image, online; The Spectre of the Avant-Garde; Unreal Asia; Who will join us? Cultural participation as a mission?

 

2008

Who cares about? Film festivals as a new contemporary film museum?; The great understanding: Which education, whose education?;Whose History?; Bordercrossers and Troublemakers; Is critcism still pertinent?

 

2007

Film education in teachers' training and classroom; Does the music video have a future?; Privatisation of film experience; Does the museum fail?; What kind of promotion does shortfilm need?

 

2006

Cultural climate 2006; Early bird exercices; Artists as agents of vision;Moving Images for Sale; Internet-TV: A future for short formats?