The subject “Africa” will be addressed by the seminar of the director Robert Rombout “Creating a Documentary Film” which will be held in collaboration with the School of Fine Arts of Athens and the Greek Society of Cinematographers.
Twelve graduate students of the Video Art Laboratory of ASKT will be invited to create a modular documentary with portraits of African artists who live and work in Athens. The seminar will take place in Athens on April 8-11 and in Kalamata from April 13 to 17, 2022.
The produced video will be presented at the closing ceremony of the 8th International Documentary Film Festival in Kalamata.
Brief CV
Robert Rombout was born in 1953 in Amsterdam. He is an independent film director and renowned speaker, as well as a teacher and a member of a jury. He was a professor at the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels as well as co-founder and executive of the DocNomads (international master's degree in documentary production) program. He is a professor at the INSAS School in Brussels and a speaker in France at the University of Paris 8 and the Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg. Has been conducting workshops around the world for many years (Brazil, Vietnam, China, Canada, United States, Lebanon).
He has been a documentary filmmaker for over 30 years. All of his films have been screened on international television channels and have won awards at many festivals. For the last 5 years, he has been using other ways of exhibiting his work with solo exhibitions and retrospectives (Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal, France, Australia, Azerbaijan). He is currently working on his film “Amsterdam Black & White”, a portrait of two homonymous locations on the north and south sides of the globe, one in the Netherlands in the province of Drenthe and the other in South Africa in the province of Boumalanga (90’, 2021).