In 2025, our Festival is organising the Oberhausen Seminar for the eleventh time.
Young and upcoming professionals can apply now for the five-day seminar as part of the 71st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. The Oberhausen Seminar is an experimental course designed to explore contemporary artists' moving image practice in the context of a renowned international film festival.
The seminar is addressing primarily international artists, filmmakers, curators and researchers and will be held in English. Only 25 applicants will be selected to meet daily during the festival to discuss the programmes they have seen with each other and with guests.
The Oberhausen Seminar 2025 will be lead by Galit Eilat.
Seminar leader Galit Eilat
Galit Eilat, a researcher, writer, and curator, is known for her projects that aim to create conditions for collective encounters and experiences with a critical perspective on the existing status quo. Central to these projects is her unwavering belief in the power of art to spark social imagination, driving the dissemination of knowledge. Eilat was the founding director of the Israeli Center for Digital Art and the inaugural artistic director of the Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne. She co-founded Maarav, an online arts and culture magazine; She co-initiated the traveling seminars Liminal Spaces, a platform for joint work and dialogue between Palestinians, Israelis, and international artists. She curated and co-curated projects such as VideoZone 4 – Video Art Biennial in Tel Aviv, the Polish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, the 32nd October Salon in Belgrade, and the 31st Sao Paulo Biennial.
Her current research focuses on extreme environments and future ecologies. In addition to her curatorial work, Eilat teaches and has written extensively about art and politics. Eilat received the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism at Bard College for the 2017-18 academic year.
The Oberhausen Seminar
The Oberhausen Seminar is an experimental course designed to explore contemporary artists' moving image practice in the context of a renowned international film festival. International practitioners from various fields - artists and filmmakers, curators and researchers - will use our Festival as a laboratory to discuss ideas in the curation of contemporary moving image media, the infrastructures which allow them to circulate, and the critical frames used to analyse them.
Seminars of the last years
Seminar 2024 – Leon Kahane
Seminar 2023 – Salla Tykkä
Seminar 2022 – Ruth Noack
Seminar 2021 – Jörg Heiser
Seminar 2019 – Branka Bencić und Aleksandra Sekulić
Seminar 2018 – Roee Rosen
Seminar 2017 – Michele Pierson and Mike Zryd
Seminar 2016 – Erika Balsom
Contact
Susannah Pollheim
seminar(at)kurzfilmtage.de