OBERHAUSEN SEMINAR 2026
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Schedule 

Preliminary schedule:

Tuesday, 28th April
15.00-17:30  Introduction (Seminar Leader), agenda setting, group discussion, mapping the team's resources (Seminar room: Bert-Brecht-Haus Langemarkstraße 19-21, room 514)
KEYWORDS (introduction): Experimental actions in art | “Micro Narratives” as critical action research agenda | from grammatology to grammatization | the documentary turn in contemporary Vs documentary impulse and mnemonic practices
​19.30 - 21.00 film festival opening (Lichtburg)
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Wednesday, 29th April
11:00 Briefing of the day’s film program/report of group action plan (Seminar room)
KEYWORDS: Revising “narrativity”: thought paths, spatial-temporal flow, perceptual trajectories, descriptions and temporal experience
15:00-18:00 IC1 (Lichtburg) + discussion (optional) **IC=International Competition
[BEYOND THE URBAN-PERCEPTUAL REALM] [DOCUMENTARY]
20:00-23:00 IC2 (Lichtburg) + discussion (optional)
[FOUND FOOTAGE] / [IMPRISONMENT]
 
Thursday, 30th April
10:30 Briefing of the day’s film program/Discussion of IC1 and IC2 + theme of the day: (Seminar room) 
KEYWORDS: What is experimental action in moving image practice: variety of images, objectile, descriptions
15:00-18:00 IC3 (Lichtburg) + discussion (optional)
[MIXED (ARTISTIC) MEDIA] [GRAMMATIZATION] [FOUND FOOTAGE] [WHAT’S LEFT OUT OF HISTORY]
20:00-23:00 IC4 (Lichtburg) + discussion (optional) 
[NATURE HAS ITS OWN LIFE / THE DEAD / THE SUPERNATURAL]
 
Friday, 1st May
10:00 Briefing of the day’s film program/Discussion of IC3 and IC4 + theme of the day (Seminar room)
KEYWORDS: Documentary impulse, mnemonic technics
13:00-16:00  Open seminar session: Agenda set by seminar participants: issues we need to address OR interim report of group research OR a presentation of individual on-going art / educational / curatorial projects
17:00-20:00
IC6 (Lichtburg) + discussion (optional)
[MEMORIES / HOW TO REMEMBER / FAMILY SECRET]
 
Saturday, 2nd May
10:00 Briefing of the day’s film program/theme of the day (Seminar room)
KEYWORDS: essaying with moving image
11:00-14:00 IC7 (Lichtburg) + discussion (optional)
[WELL TOLD STORIES] [YOUNG PERSONS IN A FAMILY] [WAR, POST-WAR] [YOUTH ID]
15:00-18:00 Seminar time: presentation, thematic, group, discussion of IC6-7 (Seminar room)
20:00-23:00 IC8 (Lichtburg) + discussion (optional)
[DESOLATION]
 
​Sunday, 3rd May
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11::00-12:00 Briefing of the day, discussion of IC7-IC8 (Seminar room)
KEYWORDS: archaeolography, organology
13:00-15:00  IC9 (Lichtburg)
[DESIRES, or NEAR-DESIRES]
15:30-18:30 Concluding session: Group report, Looking ahead​
>>Grammatization. the short film as a unique open space of mnemonic technics 
→ the video essay as historiographic experiments
>>What can the video essay be? How does it function?
>>Programming short film and video essays: new ontologies?
>>My own next step(s)?

19:00 Award Ceremony (Lichtburg)
21:00 free conversations in free gathering of the 2S participants
Information about screenings and podiums can be found on our website www.kurzfilmtage.de
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