What: "Education - Shaping the Future Filmmakers and the Future of Cinema" Seminar at MIRAGE film festival (Note: The seminar will be in English)
When: 7. oktober kl 10-12:30
Where: Vega Scene – Sal 1
Tickets: Mirage filmfestival
In this seminar at MIRAGE film festival, head of The Norwegian Film School Ragna Lindboe participates together with colleagues from other film schools and educational institutions in Norway and France to discuss how we shape our future filmmakers - and the future of cinema.
MIRAGE, in collaboration with Institut français, brings together film schools with distinctly different traditions: Le Fresnoy works as an interdisciplinary artistic laboratory and ENS Louis-Lumière connects art, craft, technology and science. In Norway, the Film Art School in Kabelvåg emphasises independent artistic practice, Westerdals/Kristiania takes a practical, industry-oriented approach, and the Norwegian Film School combines specialised craft, collaboration and the development of an individual artistic voice.
10:30–11:15 — Making a Filmmaker
How different film schools shape artistic voice, craft and practice
Film schools are built on very different ideas of what a filmmaker is and how one should be educated. Some are organised around specialised professional roles; others begin with individual artistic practice, experimentation or work across disciplines.
This conversation brings together representatives and alumni from Norwegian and French film schools to look at how pedagogy, institutional structure and working methods shape not only what students learn, the kinds of films they go on to make and eventually the future of Cinema and filmmaking.
Key questions
- What kind of filmmaker does each school seek to educate?
- Which methods are central: production, mentoring, critique, theory, experimentation or artistic research?
- What is gained — and lost — through specialisation?
- How does a school’s structure influence the films its students make?
- When filmmaking tools are increasingly accessible, what can a film school offer that independent practice cannot?
Panelists:
Ragna Lindboe — The Norwegian Film School: Head of Department
Katja Eyde Jacobsen – Filmkunstskolen i Kabelvåg: Head of Department
Ghassan Koteit – ENS Lumière: Director of Study
Roland Edzard - Former Student - Le Fresnoy
11:30–12:15 — Teaching Cinema in a Changing World
What should film schools change — and what must they protect?
Film education is being reshaped by new technologies, changing production models, economic pressures and shifts in how films are made and experienced.
How should film schools respond without simply following every new development? This conversation looks at what should evolve, what should be resisted, and what film education must continue to protect when the future of filmmaking is increasingly difficult to predict.
Key questions
- Which technological, social and economic changes are having the greatest impact on film education?
- Which skills and forms of knowledge are becoming more important — and which risk disappearing?
- How should AI and new production technologies enter film education?
- What should film schools adapt to, and what should they actively resist?
- Should film schools prepare students for the future of cinema — or help them invent it?
Panelists:
Ragna Lindboe — The Norwegian Film School
Katja Eyde Jacobsen – Filmkunstskolen i Kabelvåg: Head of Department
Frode Thorjussen - Head of institute Performing Art, Film and Media, Kristiania
Ghassan Koteit – ENS Lumière: Director of Study
About MIRAGE Film festival
The seminar "Education - Shaping the Future Filmmakers and the Future of Cinema" is organized by MIRAGE film festival in collaboration with Institut français.
The Norwegian Film School and Faculty for Film, TV and Games at University of Inland Norway collaborate with MIRAGE film festival which takes place October 7th to 11th. The festival gathers the film industry with a focus on the art and craft of film and - as important - is a meeting place for the whole film field.