Direção de Fotografia em Conferência

Conference cinematography in progress - Reaching Out

A Associação de Imagem associa-se à Conferência sobre Direção de Fotografia a realizar no sábado dia 13 de novembro 2021, na sala Fernando Lopes da Universidade Lusófona. A conferência tem como objetivo lançar o primeiro volume de publicações académicas sobre direção de fotografia.

Os estudos da temática da fotografia no cinema ainda são escassos e o conhecimento geral do papel fundamental que a fotografia tem na obra cinematográfica é igualmnete desconhecida e ignorada por grande parte dos media como pelos meios académicos.

A organização fundada por, Marijke van Kets SBC - Bélgica, Ella van den Hove SBC - Bélgica e Tony Costa aip - Portugal em 2019 denominada CITO, tem como objetivo central a publicação de artigos científicos em exclusivo sobre a temática da imagem no cinema. É o primeiro jornal no mundo que se dedica em exclusivo a esta dsciplina.

As inscrições (entrada livre) para participar na Conferência: AQUI

Para submeter artigos para o jornal: AQUI

PROGRAMA

13 novembro de 2021

Sala Fernando Lopes - Universidade Lusófona

Campo Grande 376 - Lisboa

Contacto tonycosta@ulusofona.pt 917776693

Conference Issue 1: Reaching Out

Connecting journal editors, researchers and contributors of the Cinematography in Progress Journal

AIM

The journal: The Cinematography in Progress Journal is the first of its kind to bring cinematography to the academic context, where cinematography is recognized as a fundamental component in film discourse and collaborative element in the making of film. Cinematography is a form of expressiveness. Through the use of camera and lighting, a cinematographer manages to engage with the human spirit. By doing so a cinematographer can become a storytelling agent and move beyond being ‘merely’ a technician. One could even suggest that the cinematographic expression is able to alter the participation of the viewer with the narrative. Our aim with the publication of the journal is to help to understand what images can bring, to demystify the capacities of images. Stern (2002, p. 334[1]) points out that this act of creating emotionally powerful artifacts is “by and large considered elusive, mysterious and unquantifiable”. He argues that the view that art and entertainment are regarded as fun and are thus not considered as worthwhile pursuits is very short sighted. “On the contrary, stories and art are among the most serious and meaningful pursuits we have” (Ibid., 2002, p.334). He concludes that even if the problem is difficult to quantify it is still an important subject because we communicate, more and more, and exchange ideas and experiences with each other in this way (Ibid, 2002, p. 334). In relation to cinematography the problem is not only deemed to be unquantifiable but even non-existent, because most of the emotional meaning of a film is credited to other aspects of the film, and cinematography is often categorized as technique. The project’s aim therefor is to provide, for the first time, an interdisciplinary and intersectorIal research publication platform that focuses on visual perception, figurative composition, filmic technique, conceptualization of storytelling, film technology and European cinematographic history.

The researchers: CITO International Joint Research Group is created from cinematographers and scientists who are contributing expertise from the fields of cognitive science, art history, media technology, film and urban studies, amongst others. The artistic and the theoretical field have common grounds, i.e. they seek answers to certain questions and aim to communicate the emerging knowledge. Yet both fields have diverging views on the methods for acquisition and the dissemination of the results. However, a new generation of research supervisors is more acquainted with practice-based research methodologies. One of the advantages of new research models is that it allows us to approach the subject matter from a multi-disciplinary perspective, from which cinematography as a medium benefits. Cinematographic research that “marries” technology with culture is not only an interdisciplinary research field, therefore fulfilling the European Commissions’ triple I agenda (i.e. interdisciplinary, intersectorial, and international) for research funding but it is also entirely in line with building “Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies”. As such, this international joint research group and program can put it in a competitive position for this type of funding. During this conference we will lay the foundation for the next applications for funding for further research into cinematography. We will identify the projects and set up the work-groups and the deliverables for each of them.

The contributors: The first publications of the journal were the conference proceedings of the Cinematography in Progress 3 Conference held in April 2019 at the RITCS and INSAS in Brussels, Belgium. The participants of that conference were mainly teachers and researchers of cinematography and they became some of the core contributors to the journal. Currently, we are publishing Issue 1: reaching out . The call for papers has attracted researchers to write and/or review articles for the journal. By setting up the journal we have thus managed to create a research community around the topic of Cinematography and the group is growing every month. Now, after the difficult COVID years it is time to connect in live and to continue our collaborations in more projects. We will discuss funding opportunities, books and other research outcomes.

The partners: The Universities and IMAGO

The researchers involved have together organised conferences on teaching and researching cinematography through IEC the Education Committee of IMAGO, the International Federation of Cinematographers, a collaborative, global umbrella for the world´s Cinematographers Societies. Out of that committee we have set up in 2019 the International Joint Research group Cinematography in Progress CITO at the VUB (chair Dr. M. Van Kets) in collaboration with HdM-Hochschule der Medien, University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart, Germany (co-chair Prof.S. Grandinetti) and Lusofona University, Film Studies, Lisbon, Portugal (co-chair Prof. Tony Costa). These collaborators have often set up their own visual media labs or research groups within their universities. During this conference we will further explore which funding we want to apply for so we will be able to share infrastructure and expertise to conduct the work. Also we will stipulate our further ambition in regards to the publication, do we want to publish PHD, etc…? These ideas will be discussed during two workshops. At the same time we want to expand the CITO group with other universities and researchers and participants of the journal. We intent to invite those to the conference Issue 1: reaching out.

[1] Stern, Andrew. (2002). Creating Emotional Relationships with virtual characters. In Robert Trappl, Paolo Petta, & Sabine Payr (Eds.), Emotions in Humans and Artifacts (pp. 333-362): MIT Press.