What is Artistic Research Good For

At this year's CPH:DOX, The National Film School of Denmark and The Norwegian Film School join forces to explore how artistic research benefits filmmakers. However, we will also try to identify the challenges pertaining to it. How do we share insights with industry stakeholders? Are we missing important research topics? Come take part in a discussion about how artistic research can be of use to filmmakers.

Research is vital. There can be no progress if not for the people taking the first steps, chartering into unknown land, mapping the road as they go, setting the course for others to follow.

And The National Film School of Denmark is dedicated to furthering artistic research because we believe that it allows filmmakers to tap into new artistic areas, and that it enables them to work more intimately with their source material.

Artistic research is not without its pitfalls, however, and we need to remain vigilant, we need to keep asking the right questions, and we need to make sure that the research actually yields concrete results that we can use in our artistic practices.

So at this year's CPH:CONFERENCE, The National Film School of Denmark teams up with The Norwegian Film School in a joint effort to explore how artistic research benefits filmmakers, and how it can provide us with more profound understandings of artistic practices.

So make sure to join us, as we showcase what exciting artistic research is being undertaken currently. Thanks to generous support from The Fondation for Danish-Norwegian Cooperation, the film schools will host a coffee break, allowing all accredited guest and participants to mingle and connect in beautiful surroundings at Charlottenborg.

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Program

Thursday, March 27
16:45 – 17:30

Nefise Özkal Lorentzen: 'This is Not an Apple'

Nefise Özkal Lorentzen is a Turkish-Norwegian writer, filmmaker and professor at the faculty of Audiovisual Media and Creative Technologies at Innland University, Norway. Her documentary 'This is Not an Apple' traces three Palestinian siblings in Oslo who, after surviving a brutal stabbing, seek redemption and face their pasts through an apple farming project that unexpectedly connects them with high-security prison inmates.

During her presentation, Nefise Özkal Lorentzen will present the project and talk about how it relates to her own experience of being in-between two cultures, and the mixed feelings of both inclusion and exclusion that comes with it.

Lise Birk Pedersen: 'The Art of Doc series and societal storytelling'

Lise Birk Pedersen is an award-winning documentary filmmaker specializing in character-driven narratives about people in the political arena.

In her research project 'The Art of Social Storytelling' she asks the question: How can we elevate serialized documentary social narratives to the artistic level of the best epic fiction series and at the same time get a broad audience to take an interest in and reflect on complex social issues?

KriStine Skaret: 'Creative Treatment of a Reality That did not yet take place'

KriStine Ann Skaret is one of the founders and producers in the Norwegian production company Stray Dog Productions bases in Oslo, Norway. The PhD project "Creative Treatment of a Reality That did not yet take place" explores dramaturgical methods in the development of documentary material, focusing on films that do not have a character-driven narrative.

Fireside Chat

The three speakers in conversation w. Jakob Høgel and Nina Grünfeld.

Coffee break

Enjoy a complimentary cup of coffee and connect with other industry stakeholders. Courtesy of The Foundation for Danish-Norwegian Cooperation

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