[ecrea] X Film Summer School - Animated Metamorphoses: The Changing Culture in Contemporary Animatio

> X Film Summer School
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> Animated Metamorphoses: The Changing Culture in Contemporary Animation
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> Locarno, 3-7 August, 2009
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> <http://www.fss.unisi.ch>www.fss.unisi.ch
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> The Faculty of Communication Sciences of the 
> Università della Svizzera italiana and the 
> Locarno International Film Festival organise a 
> Summer School to analyse fiction and non-fiction 
> media. The Summer School is part of Réseau 
> Cinéma CH, a Swiss university consortium 
> promoting two Master of Arts programs in Film Studies and Film.
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> The X Film Summer School is open to 30 
> university students from Switzerland and abroad, 
> and offers the opportunity to explore the 
> complexities of modern animation, confronting 
> the Western scene with that in the East, 
> initiating a dialogue through two of the authors 
> who are most representative of the latest 
> tendencies in animation - Swiss animation 
> director Georges Schwizgebel and Japanese anime 
> director Hiroyuki Yamaga -, enabling a direct 
> comparison between European animation's auteur 
> tendency and the aesthetic and productive models 
> of the most innovative Japanese Studios, but 
> also stimulating reflection on the influence of 
> cultural backgrounds, both on an aesthetic and a 
> thematic level, in current animation production. 
> The comparison is made even more relevant by the 
> fact that both authors, while characterised by 
> their different cultural roots and by the 
> varying methods through which they develop and 
> produce their work, share a tendency towards 
> technical experimentation and an inclination to 
> represent a contemporary world in vertiginous 
> transformation. Can cultural and individual 
> identity still provide an anchorage point among 
> the continuous animated metamorphoses on offer?
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> Through dialogue and encounters with filmmakers 
> Georges Schwizgebel and Hiroyuki Yamaga, and 
> scholars Thomas Basgier (Universität Zürich) and 
> Marco Pellitteri (Università di Trento), the X 
> Film Summer School aims to investigate the 
> different approaches to aesthetics and narrative 
> with which European and Japanese animation have 
> created animated worlds which are as rooted in 
> their cultural heritage as they are alternative 
> and visionary compared to the "real" worlds to which they refer.
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> > > > Applications are to be submitted by Friday, 3. July, 2009 < < <
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> The Film Summer School full program may be found 
> at the website <http://www.fss.unisi.ch>www.fss.unisi.ch

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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