Film Workshop by Tin Dirdamal - AN UPSTREAM RIVER BETWEEN FICTION AND NONFICTION
"AN UPSTREAM RIVER BETWEEN FICTION AND NONFICTION" is a film workshop that moves away from both fiction and nonfiction. Far away from formulas, scripts and film crews. It uses the multiplication of mistakes as the driving force, the fragile state of not knowing as the compass.
The starting point is identifying a current creative pursuit to then find its contrary; so that the participants can allow themselves to conceive or further an idea from an opposing position. The reason behind this is to be able to reinvent one’s own creative approach- to find new ways, to become free of one's own methods in pursuit of reinvention.
The raw material from which we will pull from will be circumstantial reality. An important part of this workshop is finding new ways to perceive. To find different ways to create ‘narrative tension’ by using desire, unpredictability and deconstruction.
AN UPSTREAM RIVER... is a space to harness one's ability to surprise one’s self; and apply this new motion into a filmmaking pursuit.
When: 8-9 April / 16:00 - 19:00
Where: Armata Cinema
By whom: Tin Dirdamal
For who: Advanced filmmakers (directors, screenwriters, editors etc.)
About the tutor:
Tin Dirdamal is a self-taught filmmaker and unorthodox editor- known for being able to edit “impossible films.” Born 165 kilometers south of the US-Mexico border with formal studies in engineering. He measures the success of his films by how much of himself he’s able to abandon in the process. Also self- taught in psychology and architecture, his most useful tools are doubt and contradiction.
He directs, produces, acts, writes, does camera and sound, composes music, edits, and designs the sound for his own films. At 22 years old he grabbed a camera for the first time in his life and made his first accidental and feature length film that won him the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Films he’s edited and directed have been shown and awarded at some of the most important art venues and film festivals around the world, including: Venice Biennale, Sundance, Visions du Reél, IDFA, DOCNY, FICUNAM, Ji.hlava, Ann Arbor, DokuFest, etc.
