“All of us are editors. Explore upskilling your storytelling tools to make cinema from the everyday.
In this day and age, we may not know it, but we are all editors. We capture, gather and combine images and audio across technology as easily as we breathe. But what if we thought about it a little more, expanded our capabilities, harnessed the tricks of cinema outside the constraints of the movie theatre to deepen our ability to express ourselves? The language of cinema is available to everyone, the tools are in our hands.
Joe and Maya specialize in do-it-yourself filmmaking: making something out of seemingly nothing—from the stuff of memory and imagination—using only consumer tech and scavenger skills. The class is designed for anyone interested not only in live cinema but also in alternative filmmaking and storytelling forms. It promises to be a performance in and of itself.
Maya Daisy Hawke (Navalny, Sugarcane) and Joe Bini (Grizzly Man, We Need to Talk About Kevin) are renowned film editors who, in recent years, have brought their fiction and non-fiction storytelling expertise to other forms of storytelling. One example is Little Ethiopia, a live cinema piece performed as a dialogue between the couple speaking to each other through their own forms of cinema language. The project emerged from social media performance pieces Maya made (Box of Birds, Currency of Despair) and it led to Joe’s current project (Burden of Other People’s Dreams), which he describes as a "book-film".
You will learn cinema techniques that can be used by anyone, anywhere, to tell your own stories using your own voice, for very little money. Live cinema bypasses traditional distribution methods and gatekeeping - bringing stories to audiences in new, deeply personal forms.
Joe and Maya specialize in do-it-yourself filmmaking: making something out of seemingly nothing—from the stuff of memory and imagination—using only consumer tech and scavenger skills. The class is designed for anyone interested not only in live cinema but also in alternative filmmaking and storytelling forms. It promises to be a performance in and of itself.
Program
Part 1
Maya and Joe will run through different techniques and approaches in making live cinema, tracing their ten year journey of storytelling in the space.
Part 2
Attendees will break into groups to workshop ideas that could take the form of live cinema. Maya and Joe will rotate around the room to offer feedback on storytelling tools and approaches.”