Switching Genres: The Power of Hybrid Film
Switching Genres: The Power of Hybrid Film
- Date
- Feb 13th 2014
- With
- Corneliu Porumboiu, Warwick Thornton, Sophie Hyde, Jean-Pierre Rehm
There has been a recent surge of films that explore a hybrid approach to narrative through the use of documentary techniques, and a conscious blending of the constructed and the observational. Sophie Hyde (52 Tuesdays), Warwick Thornton (The Darkside, Samson and Delilah) and Corneliu Porumboiu (The Second Game, Police Adjective), who are premiering their new films in the Berlinale, will discuss their formal and stylistic choices in making their latest films, and the benefits to using both documentary and narrative strategies.
Corneliu Porumboiu
Romanian writer and director. He won the Camera d’Or at Cannes for 12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST (2006). POLICE, ADJECTIVE (2009) screened in Un Certain Regard and received the FIPRESCI and Jury prizes. WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST OR METABOLISM (2013) followed, and THE SECOND GAME, a personal documentary, is presented at this year's Berlinale Forum.
Warwick Thornton
The Australian director, screenwriter and cinematographer won the Caméra d'Or at Cannes for his debut feature film, Samson and Delilah. He went on to receive the Special Jury Prize at Venice and the Platform Prize at Toronto for Sweet Country. He also works in documentary and television drama. His feature film The New Boy won the ACS Spotlight Award and the Camerimage Golden Frog for Best Cinematography.
Sophie Hyde
Australian writer, director and producer. Her short films MY LAST TEN HOURS WITH YOU, ELEPHANTIASIS and NECESSARY GAMES have won numerous awards. She co-founded Closer Productions, where she produced Matthew Bate's documentary SHUT UP, LITTLE MAN, which premiered at Sundance 2011. She also produced and co-directed the award-winning feature documentary LIFE IN MOVEMENT. Her first feature drama as a co-writer, director and producer, 52 TUESDAYS, will feature in the Berlinale Generation 2014.
Jean-Pierre Rehm
French film theorist, critic and director of the FID Marseille (International Film Festival Marseille) since 2002. He was a lecturer of history and theory of film and art, worked at the French Ministry of Culture and is an editor of Cahiers du Cinéma. He has curated a number of exhibitions of contemporary art, in France as well as in Egypt (Cairo Museum of Modern Art), the Netherlands (Witte de With, Rotterdam) and Japan (Yokohama Art Center).