BEYOND STORYTELLING: Carl Olsson, 30% seminar

Carl Olsson’s artistic research project BEYOND STORYTELLING explores questions concerning film dramaturgy. It asks whether a narrative can be combined with a fragmentary cinematic structure without undermining the strength of fragmentation, given the cultural and historical dominance of narrative and the audience expectations that follow from it.
During this 30% seminar, Carl will present the project’s starting point, its research questions, and the findings of the investigations conducted so far. This will be followed by an in-depth discussion with respondent Cecilia Lidin and the audience.

Main supervisor: Erik Gandini 
Supervisor: Petra Bauer
Discussant: Cecilia Lidin

Cecilia Lidin has worked in documentary film since the early 1990s, including at the West Danish Film Fund, as Director of EDN (European Documentary Network), as Artistic Director of the Odense International Film Festival, as Head of European Storytellers, and as Head of Studies at ZagrebDox Pro.
Between 2011 and 2020, Cecilia worked as a film commissioner for documentary film, first at the Swedish Film Institute and then at the Danish Film Institute. She has also undertaken numerous international assignments as a moderator, lecturer, mentor, and jury member. She is currently working with the documentary programme at Nordisk Panorama as well as lecturer at the documentary directing programme at the National Film School of Denmark.

Schedule: 13:00 Welcome (Erik Gandini) · 13:05 Screening of process material and presentation (Carl Olsson) · 14:00 Break · 14:10 Response from discussant, followed by discussion with Carl · 15:30 Questions from the audience.