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Bekolo Biography

30.6.05

 

Teaching Philosophy

THE MONTAGE LEARNING

My film practice and film teaching experiences have convinced me that the best position to teach film from is the « monteur » position. (the editor)
My first courses are always about breaking down,
analyzing and discussing students favored movies, shot by shot.
We learn how to build by deconstructing.
Then we watch critically the material we are supposed to put together.
We make a comparative study between the film semantic through the rushes we are supposed to assemble and the real world semantic.
And then we start building a discourse going back and forward between the two (the rushes and the real world).
This is where form appears.
Form is the way though which we make our comments in that dynamic.
We create a language adapted to the discourse raised from the confrontation of the real world and the ruhes shot to be assembled together.
This approach is theoritical as well as it is practical.
It is the essence of auteur filmmaking – « self expression » filmmaking using semiotics.
I challenge the students to make films for one person for example.


Jean-Pierre Bekolo

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