MAPS OF THE WORLD
New ways of looking at, thinking about, and producing cinema
22^nd, 25^th-29^th February 2008

Following in the wake of the Novísimos Usos Workshop-Course, organized by the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, and the last edition of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival, found footage filmmaking reintroduces the idea of audiovisual recycling as a strong argument in favour of the use of domestic video footage and related production techniques associated to digital technology. Departing from this principle, we offer the possibility of creating an open, free and intuitive itinerary without any need for cumbersome equipment in mainstream filmmaking. The aim is to learn how to manipulate existing images and sounds, which are capable of being reinvented with any domestic computer.
Editing and mounting is the main catalyst for this research project, reminding ourselves again that it is not necessary to have a camera in order to make a film.
Mapas del Mundo (Maps of the World) is an invitation from Isaki Lacuesta and Sergi Dies to reflect on journeys, either one’s own or those of others, enabling us to draw up our own cartographic map; reinventing places, smells and sensations; reinventing an intimate experience; or reinventing a way of seeing our own experiences from the outside.

This new edition of found footage is presented by the CAAM and the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival in close collaboration with Gran Canaria Espacio Digital, Gran Canaria Island Government, the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Town Hall Tourist Department and the Architects’ Association of the Canary Islands –in the Gran Canaria area of practice, and in pursuit of a single objective: to invent new forms of plastic creation together with the best professionals in the field.

Workshop-Course directed by Isaki Lacuesta and Sergi Dies

25^th-29^th
This Workshop Course will take place in the facilities of Gran Canaria Espacio Digital. Students will be divided into two groups, morning and late afternoon/evening, with 15 students in each group.
Morning: 10am to 2pm
Late afternoon/evening: 4.30pm to 8.30pm

The projects will be shown at LA NOCHE DIGITAL (THE DIGITAL NIGHT), under the auspices of the Film Festival where different films from various series and competitive sections will be shown, all of which share the common characteristic of having been conceived and produced in digital format.

Participants must present various CD’s or DVD’s with video and audio files recorded personally by themselves (or by a friend or family member) during the course of a journey. Any digitalised Super 8 footage or photographic images may be submitted, provided they were taken by or linked to the participant.

Participants are required to consent to the unrestricted use of their images by any other participants in the workshop.

Registration

Registration:

- Friends of the CAAM who have been registered for more than one month, students and members of the Architects’ Association of the Canary Islands (COAC, its Spanish acronym): 30€ (Please enclose a photocopy of membership ID card).

- General Public: 40€.

From 12^th to 16^th and from 19th to 21st February, in the CAAM reception desk, Tuesdays to Saturdays from 10.00 am to 8.00 pm.
C/ Los Balcones 11, 35001 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Telephone 902 311 824. www.caam.net

30 places available on a first-come-first-served basis, to be divided into two groups.

The use of course material or products is subject to International Intellectual Property law.