Relationships in the dark workshop
How does working with the growing natural darkness of the season effect and inform creative process?
This seminar is about queer science-fiction, focusing on relationships in the dark.
Students are required to attend each session, and be fully committed to working together to conceive, create, and finish a short video work inspired by specific scenes chosen by each production group to respond to.
We will read selected texts, and watch films, especially “Born in Flames” by Lizzy Borden. We will prepare and go through ONE full ALL NIGHTER of shooting in the dark, with the intention of approaching image making from the perspective of natural light and time, relationships between bodies, and how a team of creative people collaboratively navigate together through shifting states of mind.
This seminar is not only about navigating and creating work in different states of mind and conditions of light, but is also about understanding how relationships of collaboration work in front and behind the camera.
Students will be separated into working teams. Students are asked to work together from sun-down to sun-up, with the only requirement being that they must use natural sources of light.
As the seminar instructor, I will serve as producer and support through the process of this production.
Please note: After teams shoot all night, there will be a day to rest, and then a seminar/ team check-in meeting in the early evening to discuss the experience of shooting and the editing plan for the next days.
Liz Rosenfeld is a Berlin based visual and performance artist who works in film/video, performance, and experimental writing practice. Liz’s films and performances have shown in international museums and venues including The Forum Expanded Program, Berlinale, the Bergen Assembly, Berlinischer Galerie, Mapa Teatro, Sophiensæle, The Hebbel am Ufer Theatre, The Gorki Theater, Arts Admin, Galerie Emanuel Layr, The Tate Modern, The Hammer Museum, The Leslie Lohman Museum, The Barbican Centre, The CAC- Glasgow, Tramway, The Stedelijk Museum, The C/O Gallery, and The Deutsches Historisches Museum. Liz’s short films are represented by Video Data Bank and LUX Moving Image.