Reflecting on programming: critical and creative gestures
As part of a retroactive reflection, Hors champ, both online magazine and programming organization, wishes to reflect on film programming. To fuel this exploration, four sessions are planned, during which external organizations and programmers will discuss their approach, based on proposed films.
How can programming extend gestures of writing images and films? Can it be compared to editorial work or considered to be a creative practice? What actions does it imply and presuppose? How do we conceive the time of a program and unravel the questions at work within it? What are the ways in which the artists’ discourse can be integrated? How do we cultivate the spectators’ desires and reflect on the contextual audience to which a program is addressed? How can film programming think through the distribution channels that are mobilized?
The aim of this initiative is to reflect on the various ethical, aesthetic, political and mediational dimensions involved in film programming, reveal throughout the sessions the gestures that are involved in such practices.
This activity is made possible thanks to the support of Periculum. Foundation for Contemporary Art.
Reflecting on programming
Session 1: “experimenting”
Workshop with Benjamin R. Taylor and Noa Blanche from la lumière collective, an organization that defines itself as a collective of artists and curators, a micro-cinema and a space for practice and residencies.
