Hello, my name is Bratislav and I invite you to enter the cinema and follow me through this short online course in discovering the basics of film language,
it's development and it's tools, and the ways it can build context to convey your ideas and the ways you could use it to express your ideas and standpoints in the vast moving images world of today.
The course is part of Frames of Understanding project and it corresponds with the other content you can find on this web site.
In this regard, besides finding out more about the project itself, it's goals and it's activities,
I encourage you to browse through the resources section of the website and find complementary material to this course there.
The course consists of five segments.
Through examples we will be searching for answers to questions such as: what is cinema and what makes it's expressive tools unique,
how did the cinematic language evolve through the turbulent first half of the XX century,
how does it resonate the society and the ideas it emanates from, and how does it continuously develop from various mutual influences from different cultures around the world.
More specifically, we will shed some more light on certain segments of the Middle Eastern cinema for further exploring,
while you can learn more about the Middle Eastern history, literature and culture in general in the Discover the Middle East online course by Dragana Đorđević, which is also part of this website.
According to the main ideas of the project, we will also mention different views on racism and xenophobia we can find in examples from various films throughout it's history.
We will take a look at the examples of different contexts from which the theme of migrants is being treated and how those contexts changed throughout time,
reflecting different points of view and major political and cultural changes of the XX and the beginning of the XXI century.
Finally, we will take a short look at the global present moment we are all part of - it's fast paced development of hybrid visual media,
the ways we can critically absorb the new expressive and social potentials they bring and use them to produce content conveying our own ideas.
The main concept of this course is to discuss the subjects of interest through clips from relevant films where ever possible.
The choice of clips is made having in mind the cinematic quality, context and importance the choosing films have in cinematography of the respective countries they come from and film language development and usage in general.
In this regard, we will note the important points of interest make some suggestions for further exploring,
and if you wish to contact us regarding the subjects of the course or share your ideas, we will be happy to communicate through our web site.