Photography, Cinema and Other Media

The starting point of the course lies in the power of photography to create a world rather then documenting it. This course focuses on initiated and staged actions in favor of photography. Based on this principle, students will experience in developing photographic spaces in the staged photography tradition - and will experience a method of work that relies on this genre and other work practices from fields like: cinema, theater, dance and performance. The work within the staged space allows for diverse and numerous experiences, styles and means of expression.

During the course, students will go through a chain of “workstations”. The main methods that will be tested in the lessons is taken from film production methods: research and preparation, scouting location and casting, cinematography, scenery and art, post-production.

Throughout the course, students will get to know works of different artists from the fields of cinema, dance and performance, and to photographers whose work is at the seam line between photography and film, photography and video, photography, sculpture and installation art.

The course is based on frontal lectures and a discussion on the work of artists from diverse fields and an affinity for staged photography. Students participating in the course will develop a distinct body of work that will be discussed through group reviews and feedback.

During the course, all students will present presentations in class that summarize research and preliminary planning for the photography productions. The presentations can contain texts, sources of inspiration from other mediums (music, cinema, etc.), sketches, visual scripts, etc…

During the course the students will receive short-term exercises and will be given different choices during the course: What unites all the exercises is the creation of photography that creates a world / space by the creator/student.

At the end of the course, the students will know how to formulate a photographic concept whose starting point is staged photography.

The students will have the ability to incorporate other mediums they would choose into the act of photography: such as drawing, sculpture, choreography, cinema, etc

Developing each student's perception and gaze towards additional mediums as an integral part of the act of photography.