The workshop "Films Centered Around Place" will address the way documentary cinema is called on to represent place. Cinema which makes the study of place its highest priority. This study strives to discover and understand place, whether it be psychological or physical, cultural, social or political. Through a cinematic study of place and a discussion of the work of film directors in whose work place occupies the center of the frame (Gitai, Wiseman, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Geyrhalter), the students will deal with different cinematic ways to portray place.

Cinema centered around place deals with concepts of architecture, landscape and space when it comes to tell its story. This type of cinema creates free narratives, more thematic and collage-like than  traditional narrative driven by a protagonist.

In the workshop we'll touch on questions of how to film place. Building a structure that doesn't depend on any standard story-form. Research, searching for a cinematic language, man's place within the filmed space. Preparation for shooting, recreating scenes and inventing scenes that don't naturally occur in the place and the ethical questions this brings up.