Monday March 5 2012, 10:00 – 11:30 hrs

Location: Piet Zwart Institute
Address: Karel Doormanhof 45, Rotterdam

Out of the Academy and Into the World: Community Cinema as Catalyst

Guest lecture descriptions

Presented by Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr of Echo Park Film Center, this lecture/workshop will look at community art center as personal practice and the variety of ways media-marginalized populations can be strengthened and empowered using experimental and documentary film/video tools and techniques. The session will include the collective creation of an animated chain-letter.

Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr are filmmakers/musicians/writers/ educators whose work is a catalyst for creative collaboration and positive social change. Originally from Italy and Canada respectively, they currently live and work in Los Angeles where they run the Echo Park Film Center, a non-profit neighborhood media arts center. As The Here & Now they travel the world, bringing movies and music to the masses.