As part of the 22nd edition of ZagrebDox, two masterclasses will be held at Dokukino KIC.
On Tuesday 21st April at 3:30 pm this year’s recipient of the Honorary Big Stamp Christian Frei will hold a masterclass under the title Magnification That Will Endure. In a masterclass whose name paraphrases Ernest Hemingway’s literary credo, Frei will present the key elements that create a documentary that resists the ravages of time and authentically and deeply captures the complex faces and facets of human nature.
Christian Frei is one of the most influential contemporary documentarians whose daring and truthseeking films – Blame, Sleepless in New York, War Photographer, Space Tourists, and Genesis 2.0 – bring piercing and intimate portraits of people in extreme situations and cover a broad spectrum of topics that weigh on the fate of humanity, such as war, technology and major social changes.
On Wednesday 22nd April we will celebrate the Earth Day with a fitting masterclass titled Non-Anthropocentric Cinematography and Storytelling. At 3.30 pm Corinne van Egeraat and Petr Lom will teach us how to tell stories in which human beings are not at the centre. They will present the evolution of their films such as I Am the River, The River Is Me and The Coriolis Effect, culminating in their latest project, a film in which the main protagonist is the endangered Mar Menor lagoon – the first European ecosystem to be recognised as a person.
Corinne van Egeraat and Petr Lom have dedicated twenty years to urgent stories about human rights, but for the last seven years they have decided to focus on the neglected rights of nature, pointing out that all creatures deserve dignity and respect, but also the attention of the storyteller.
Admission is free.
