Documentary Projects
Artistic Projects
Educational Projects

Auto-Play: Video diary workshop

Auto-Play focuses on the use of the video-diary format by means of personal cameras –mobile type flips-. The diary will reflect everyday life through intimate testimonies and by means of the collaborative method with a group of young people. Auto-Play references Alexander Astruc’s maxim and his stylo-camera (camera-pen) theory, a tool capable of describing reality as we are allowed to capture it, with the immediateness of a pen, stripped of the excess of resources and production that make up traditional film crews, maintaining the idea that the director uses the camera in a personal and creative manner, facilitating the means for spontaneous interpretation.

Workshop held at: Citilab (Cornella, Barcelona)

From the idea to the screen in three steps: Production Workshop for Documentary Projects

Workshop directed at students and young filmmakers that aims at providing participants with the necessary tools and comprehension for the production and exhibition of documentaries through their creative possibilities.

Students will be given a step by step walk through all the production activities from the initial idea leading up to the screen while working with professional formats. Pitching sessions will also be held for students that present a project.

Workshop held at: Festival Visión Frontera 2010 at the CIC Museum in Mexicali, BC. Mexico.

Feedback: Sound Creation Workshops

“It occurs when sound is captured and amplified over and over and over…” This is how Feedback has expanded since its origin, working for universities and cultural institutions, offering sound creation workshops: Studio recordist, Home studio, Audio post (Sound Desing, Filmscoring, Dialogue Editor), Location Recordist and Music Producer. The workshop provides tools and abilities that focus on design, searching for sound, and sound production and postproduction, always with the availability of the instructors during and after the workshop for counseling. If you need a workshop in a specific field we will design it for you, estimate a budget, and teach you.

Workshop held at: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California and Universidad Iberoamericana del Noroeste (2008-2009)

The Other Side of the Line: Crossed Gazes

Trinational collaboration project between the Unietd States, Mexico and France. The general project consists of the following four intertwined sub-projects:

- The production of two short animated films created by 22 children from both sides of the border using the stop motion technique, with filming taking place simultaneously on both sides of the border.

- A workshop designed to train participants in model animation technique and pedagogy for teaching.

- A documentary film on the subject of life on the border and the experience of this project.

- A research project on the children’s representations of the border and on the way children from both sides of the border worked together to create and produce an animated film.

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Coordination in Tijuana: Adriana Trujillo
Sound Production: José Inerzia

Polen Project Workshops

Polen is an interactive public art project, in which communities of teenagers construct discourses about themselves and their environment through video, photography and sound media. Polen’s structure is based on a series of programs (workshops) that offer technical training (developed as intensive courses) on the use of production and audiovisual tools, as well as a multidisciplinary theoretical awareness. The expectation is that from this, a series of audiovisual products will develop that will in turn activate in these young people’s lives dynamics of self representation. Polen’s educational programs are designed from a participatory work dynamic. We want them to tell us about themselves, their likes and dislikes, and their social reality. We are interested in creating links between artists and teenagers in our community as a means of generating communities that are made up of thinking producers that are well aware of the value of their words and the representation of their reality as a means of cultural enrichment. We are interested in accessing the subjectivity of the younger generations thinking about the value of the cultural manifestations that can be derived from these encounters. Polen began in 2004 and is still forming and working with young filmmakers in Mexico, Spain and the United States.

Polen Audiovisual Tel. +52 664 700 81 92
skype: polenaudiovisual