"Making a Documentary - Portraits" with Robert Rombout
The workshop will take place in Kalamata from 08-18 June 2021. There’ll be 8 students from the Fine arts department of the Peloponnese University in Nafplio. The students will work in groups of two and each group will have one main character for the film, but make two films. Two very different portraits of the same person.
So, each student presents one film. The theme connects with the theme of the festival “claiming freedom”. This concerns both the characters and filmmakers. The participants should feel free to experiment with unusual forms, twists and procedures. As we are in a documentary festival the perception (of the public) should be close to reality. Or – at least - play with the doubt. The produced video will be presented at the opening ceremony of the Festival, June 18.
A few words about Robert Rombout:
Robert Rombout (Amsterdam, 1953 is an independent film director and renowned lecturer, teacher and jury member. He was a professor at the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels and co-founder and executive of the DocNomads Program (international master's degree in documentary filmmaking). He has been a professor at INSAS Brussels) and a lecturer in France at the University of Paris 8 and the University Marc Bloch in Strasbourg. For many years, he has been leading workshops all over the world (Brazil, Vietnam, China, Canada, United States, Lebanon). He was the first professor sent by INSAS to teach at the SKDA Hanoi) and to set up of a common program between the two schools. He directed documentaries for over thirty years. All his films were shown on international television channels and have been awarded in several festivals. The last 5 years, he moved to other forms of exposure of his work in solo exhibitions and retrospectives (Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal, France, Australia, Azerbaijan). Rombout is now preparing Amsterdam Black & White: a portrait of two homonymous localities in the north and south of the world, one in the Netherlands, in the province of Drenthe, the other in South Africa, in the province of Mpumalanga. (90 min, 2021).