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12 – 29 March 2026
École Nationale Supérieure d'Audiovisuel Jean Jaurès, Toulouse
The ENSAV is one of the three major national public film schools in France and the first to be established outside of Paris. It was the first film school affiliated with a university: the University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès. This connection with higher education gives it a unique identity, as the school considers manual and verbal thinking in synergy. Many of its teachers are both film researchers, working within the Lara-Seppia laboratory, and filmmakers.
Website: https://www.ensav.fr
Presentation of the course:
Responsable: Claire Chatelet
The film program was created as part of a course entitled “Desktop Filmmaking,” taught in the first year of the Master’s program in Cinema and Audiovisual Studies (general course). This 18-hour module explores the aesthetic and narrative challenges of desktop films. It is structured around an 8-hour theoretical component and a 10-hour practical component dedicated to writing and producing projects. The creative constraint is to produce films, either documentary or fictional, in an intensive format, using only images and videos found online or in video games. This practical component, which adopts a renewed approach to “found footage,” consists of three stages:
– choosing topics, forming groups, and presenting the concept
– selecting data and developing the script
– editing the selected data, processing the images, recording voice-overs (if necessary), and audio editing.
Groups are composed of 4 to 5 people to allow for task distribution. The films must update Nicolas Bourriaud’s concept of the art of ‘post-production’ and Lev Manovich’s concept of ‘aesthetics of selection-combination’.
VIDEO PROGRAMME
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