Eyal Sivan is a filmmaker-producer, essayist and independent researcher based in Marseille. Born in 1964 in Haifa, Palestine-Israel, and raised in Jerusalem, he has lived in France since 1985.
With no formal academic or professional training, he left secondary school at 17 to start working. He was first a photographer in Tel Aviv, before directing, at 22, his first film Aqabat-Jaber, Passing Through, which won numerous festival awards, including the Grand Prize at the Cinéma du Réel festival.
Over this 40-year career, he has directed more than 15 internationally awarded political documentaries and produced many others. His films have been shown at prestigious festivals and broadcast around the world. Eyal Sivan's work is regularly featured in major art exhibitions and continues to inspire scholars and researchers across disciplines.
Alongside his filmmaking practice, he has pursued a long, itinerant career of lectures and teaching around the world. Eyal Sivan speaks regularly on the use of archives, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, documentary filmmaking and ethics, the representation of political crimes, the political uses of memory, and more.
In 2005, Eyal Sivan became a lecturer at the film school of the Sapir Academic College, Israel. In 2007, he was appointed Reader (associate professor) at the School of Arts and Creative Industries, University of East London (UEL), UK, where he co-directed the MA programme in Film, Video and New Media. At the same time, he joined the 'Round Table' of the spatial architecture research laboratory as an associate researcher and doctoral candidate in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where he earned an MPhil in 2006. In 2009, he was invited as guest professor and advisor to the master's film programme at the Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) – Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK). Between 2015 and 2020, he was lead professor of the master's programme and head of the film and visual art research unit at the Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK).
Eyal Sivan is the founder and first editor-in-chief of South Cinema Notebooks, a journal of cinema and political critique published by the Sapir Academic College. He was also for many years a member of the editorial board of La Fabrique, a Paris-based publishing house. He is a founding member of FRACBI, the French coordination for the academic, cultural and sporting boycott of Israel. Based in Marseille since 2020, he ran the production and distribution company Momento Films, which he founded in Paris in 1994. He is now associated with the Marseille-based production company Les films serendipity.
Filmography
2014 - Detour(s) - Doc, 23 min, colour, HD
2014 - Le Temps qui passe - Doc, 3 min, colour, HD
2012 - Common State, Potential Conversation [1] - Doc, 124 min, colour, HD
2009 - Jaffa, the Orange's Clockwork - Doc, 88 min, colour & b/w, HD
2007 - Citizens K, the Twin Brothers (with Georges Mink) - Doc, 54 min, colour, video
2005 - Faces of the Fallen - Doc, 52 min, colour, video
2004 - I Love You All / Aus Liebe zum Volk (with Audrey Maurion) - Doc, 98 min, colour & b/w, 35mm
2003 - Route 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel (with Michel Khleifi) - Doc, 4h30, colour, video
2001 - On the Top of the Descent - fiction, 32 min, colour, video
1999 - The Specialist, Portrait of a Modern Criminal (with Rony Brauman) - Doc, 128 min, b/w, 35mm
1997 - Burundi, Under Terror (with Alexis Cordesse) - Doc, 13 min, b/w, 35mm
1996 - Itsembatsemba, Rwanda One Genocide Later - Doc, 13 min, b/w, 35mm
1995 - Aqabat-Jaber, Peace with No Return? - Doc, 61 min, colour, 16mm
1994 - Jerusalem(s), Borderline Syndrome - Doc, 64 min, colour, 16mm
1993 - Itgaber, He Will Overcome — Conversation with Prof. Y. Leibowitz - Doc, 2 x 85 min, colour, video
1991 - Israland - Doc, 58 min, colour, video
1990 - Izkor, Slaves of Memory - Doc, 97 min, colour, 16mm
1987 - Aqabat-Jaber, Passing Through - Doc, 81 min, colour, 16mm
Visual works
2021 - Paroles juives contre le racisme (Jewish Voices Against Racism) - 10 clips for the UJFP (French Jewish Union for Peace), supported by the CGET
2013 - Revisit - collective work with students from the NFA (Netherlands Film Academy) master's program, HKW, 6 min 30
2012 - Montage Interdit.net - web project
2012 - Towards a Common Archive, interviews of Zionist veterans of 1948 - curated and directed multi-screen installation, 178 min, Zochrot Visual Arts Laboratory, Tel Aviv
2010 - Documentary Moments - programming and events, Berlin Documentary Forum 1, HKW, Berlin (4 evenings with Marie-José Mondzain and Adrian Rifkin, Edgar Morin, Frederick Wiseman and Stella Bruzzi, Marcel Ophuls)
2009 - Fragmented Memory of Spectatorship - documentary programme, IDFA's Top 10, IDFA Amsterdam
2008 - Happy birthdays, Towards a Common Archive - 1 - mixed-media installation, 3-channel video
2001 - Scalpel / Skalpel - concept and artistic direction, TV magazine, 14 x 42 min, video
1994 - Jerusalem, Jerusalems - concept and direction of a themed evening, Arte, 4h30
1988 - Liste progressiste pour la Paix (Progressive List for Peace) - TV clips, 11 x 2 min
Written publications (selected)
A Legitimate Boycott (with Armelle Laborie), La Fabrique, 2016, 200p
A Common State: Between the Jordan and the Sea (with Eric Hazan), La Fabrique, 2012, 70p
In Praise of Disobedience (with Rony Brauman), Fayard / Le Pommier, 1999, 175p
2025 - The Violence of Defeat, Two Years On: Thinking from October 7 — Article #8, Agence Média Palestine
2025 - Foreword, 'The Courage to Refuse', to Nous refusons: Dire non à l'armée en Israël by Martin Barzilai, Libertalia, Montreuil
2017 - Foreword to Refuzniks: Dire non à l'armée en Israël by Martin Barzilai, Libertalia, Montreuil
2016 - Montage Against All Odds, conversation with Antonia Majaca, in Documentary Across Disciplines, eds. Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin / The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London, UK, 2016, 328 pages
2015 - Never Again! Again and Again. When Memory Serves Political Violence, in Marco Scotini and Elisabetta Galasso (eds.), Politics of Memory – Documentary and Archive, Archive Books, Berlin, Germany, 2015 (English ed.)
2014 - Foreword, 'An Observer Waiting to Wait No Longer', to the catalogue of Basma AlSharif's exhibition Doppelgänging, Galerie Iman Farès, Paris
2013 - Framing Perpetrators - A Proposal, booklet produced in residence at the Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam
2012 - Towards a Common Archive - DVD catalogue & booklet
2012 - Unending Archive and Human Agencies
2011 - Ve ha'ita le ed (You Will Become a Witness), on Shlomi Elkabez's film Edut, South Cinema, Sapir Academic College and Pardes Editions
2011 - Archive Images: Truth or Memory? The Case of Adolf Eichmann's Trial, in Marit Paasche and Judy Radul (eds.), A Thousand Eyes: Media, Technology, Law, and Aesthetics, Sternberg Press, London, UK, 2011, 275 pages
2010 - Tout est dans le montage (It's All in the Editing), Notes on 'Documentary Moments: Renaissance', in BDF1 Magazine, Berlin Documentary Forum
2007 - On the Palestinian Refugee Camp As A 'Permanent Temporary Solution Regime', in Arxipèlag d'excepcions (Archipelago of Exceptions, Sovereignties and Extraterritoriality), CCCB Centre of Contemporary Culture Barcelona, 2007, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 145–161
2007 - Eyal Sivan, Capturing the Enemy's Memory (Hebrew), Makhbarot Kolnoa Darom (South Cinema Notebooks), No. 2, Sapir Academic College & Pardes Publishers, September
2006 - Ceci n'est pas une frontière (This Is Not a Border), in Hervé Groscarret (ed.), Frontières, Images de vie entre les lignes, Ædelsa Éditions – Édition Gléna, 2006, Lyon, pp. 98–99
2006 - Eyal Sivan, Betrayal-Loyalty-Engagement (Hebrew), Makhbarot Kolnoa Darom (South Cinema Notebooks), No. 1, Sapir Academic College & Pardes Publishers, June 2006
2006 - L'Europe n'a rien à se reprocher (Europe Has Nothing to Reproach Itself For), De l'autre côté, No. 5
2006 - Article (Hebrew) on the Amona confrontation
2005 - Eyal Sivan & Junji Hori, Work of Memory (Japanese), Zen-ya, Japan, November
2004 - Ici Londres (This Is London), De l'autre côté, No. 4
2003 - Journal de Pologne (Poland Diary), De l'autre côté, No. 3
2002 - Un étranger d'ici (A Stranger from Here), De l'autre côté, No. 1
2002 - Un étranger d'ici II (A Stranger from Here II), De l'autre côté, No. 2
2001 - Archive Images: Truth or Memory?, in Experience with Truth, Transitional Justice and the Process of Truth and Reconciliation, Documenta, 2001, Kassel, Germany
2001 - La dangereuse confusion des juifs de France (The Dangerous Confusion of France's Jews), Le Monde, 7 December 2001
2000 - Never Again! Again and Again. When Memory Serves Political Violence, in Franz Kaltenbeck & Peter Weibel (eds.), Trauma und Erinnerung / Trauma and Memory: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, Passagen Verlag, 2000, Vienna, Austria, pp. 183–196
1999 - The Specialist - Press book
1998 - Images, le marketing de la mémoire (Images, the Marketing of Memory), in Marie-Hélène Joly & Thomas Compère-Morel (eds.), Des musées d'histoire pour l'avenir, Éditions Noêsis, 1998, France, pp. 25–32
1998 - Memoria, archivi. Gli archivi della memoria, in Francesco Monicelli & Carlo Saletti (eds.), Il racconto della catastrofe, Il cinema di fronte ad Auschwitz, Cierre Edizioni, 1998, Italy, pp. 35–40
1996 - Eyal Sivan & Philippe Mesnard, Visions of the Shoah: Transgression or Grotesque, Artpress, No. 215, Artpress Publishers, France, July–August
1990 - Des chemins de l'humanité vers la bestialité (From the Paths of Humanity to Bestiality), interview with Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Revue d'études palestiniennes, No. 37, Éditions de Minuit, Autumn 1990, pp. 89–98
1988 - An Ugly Face in the Mirror - National Stereotypes in Hebrew Children's Literature, book review, Revue d'études palestiniennes, No. 29, Éditions de Minuit, Autumn 1988, pp. 191–195
n.d. - Eyal Sivan, Il Cinema di un'altra Israele
n.d. - Article (Hebrew), Kedma
Producer
2022 - Le ciel pleura 40 jours, by Sabrina Mervin - Doc., 61 min - Momento, EHESS
2021 - Looking for Horses, by Stefan Pavlović - Doc., 88 min - Momento, ARtrace (Netherlands), Kaman Art Residency (Bosnia and Herzegovina), distributed by Light Box (Switzerland)
2017 - Ouroboros, by Basma AlSharif - experimental feature, 78 min - Momento, Luna Bleu (Belgium), Idioms Films (Poland), Doha Film Institute (Qatar)
2006 - Le cortège des captives, by Sabrina Mervin - Doc., 54 min - Momento, CNRS, IFPO
2006 - Lettre à ma sœur, by Habiba Djahnine - Doc., 70 min - Momento, Vidéorème
2003 - Les jardiniers de la Rue des Martyrs, by Leïla Habchi and Benoît Prin - Doc., 81 min - Momento, Vidéorème, CRAV, CNC (France), Arte, ZDF (Germany)
2003 - Insolites - Doc. series, 8 x 26 min - Momento, CNC, France 3 Aquitaine
2002 - Un arpent sur la Lune, by Rachel Leah Jones - Doc., 47 min - Momento, France 2, RLJ, CNC
2002 - Les Ralliés, by Adila Bennedjaï-Zou and Joseph Confavreux - Doc., 52 min - Momento, CNC
2002 - Les Marches en Italie, by Charles Castella - Doc., 43 min - Momento, Arte, CNC
2001 - On the Top of the Descent, by Eyal Sivan - short fiction, 32 min - Momento, Aventis
2001 - Scalpel / Skalpel, by Rony Brauman and Eyal Sivan - TV magazine, 12 x 43 min - Momento, Arte, CNC
2000 - La Fanfare ne perd pas le Nord, by Frédéric Touchard - Doc., 52 min - Momento, France 2, CNC (France), RTBF (Belgium)
1999 - Au pays du citron, by Frédéric Touchard - Doc., 52 min
1997 - Populations in Danger - Doc. series, 4 x 13 min - Momento, État d'Urgence
1994 - Maashi, by Menem Richa - short fiction, 12 min - Momento
Awards
Dialogues d'Exilés (screenplay), Marcati Prize, FIDlab (2021)
Featured artist, 59th Flaherty Seminar, "History is What's Happening", Colgate University, New York, USA (2013)
Guest of Honour, IDFA, International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands (2009)
Fellow, Académie de France, Villa Medici, Rome (1991–92)
Common State, Potential Conversation [1] : Juliano Mer-Khamis Award for Best Documentary, Cinema South Film Festival, Sderot, Israel, 2012
Jaffa, the Orange's Clockwork : Reus City Best Film Award, Memorimages International Film Festival of Films with Archival Footage, Reus, Spain, 2010 ; Best Editing Award, Soleluna International Documentary Film Festival on Islam and the Mediterranean, Palermo, Italy, 2010 ; International Jury Prize and Special Mention of the Youth Jury, Filmmaker Festival Internazionale di Cinema, Milan, Italy, 2009
I Love You All : Special Jury Award, Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival, Taiwan, 2005 ; Official Selection, Berlinale, Berlin, Germany, 2004 ; Jury Award, Filmmaker Doc9 International Festival, Milan, Italy, 2004
Route 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel : Mayor's Prize, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan, 2006 ; First Prize, Human Rights International Film Festival, Paris, France, 2005
The Specialist, Portrait of a Modern Criminal : SCAM Audiovisual Work Award, France, 2001 ; The Jubilee Third Millennium Award for the Vatican, Rome, Italy, 2000 ; Official Selection, Berlinale, Berlin, Germany, 1999 ; France Cinéma Prize, Florence, Italy, 1999 ; Adolf Grimme Award for Best Documentary, Germany, 1999
Itsembatsemba, Rwanda One Genocide Later : Special Jury Mention, International Film Festival Bilbao, Spain, 1997 ; Merit Award, San Francisco Film Festival, USA, 1997
Israland : Investigative Documentary Award, European Documentary Biennial, Marseille, France, 1991
Izkor, Slaves of Memory : Procirep French Producers' Film Fund Award, France, 1991 ; Special Jury Mention, FIPA (International Festival of Audiovisual Programmes), Cannes, France, 1991 ; Best Investigative Documentary Award, European Documentary Biennial, Marseille, France, 1991 ; Golden Lens Award for Best Photography, Tel Aviv Film Festival, Israel, 1991
Aqabat-Jaber, Passing Through : Jury Prize, Cinéma du Réel, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 1987 ; Golden Crown, Festikon, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1988 ; Air France-Radio France Prize, Belfort International Film Festival, France, 1988 ; Best Socio-Political Documentary Award, Oakland International Film Festival, USA, 1988 ; Special Jury Mention, Internationale Filmwoche, Mannheim, Germany, 1988
Retrospectives & tributes
2025 - Retrospective, Histoire(s) de se rencontrer au cinéma, Mas-d'Azil, France
2024 - Tribute, Unarchive International Film Festival, Rome, Italy
2024 - Focus, One World Romania, Bucharest, Romania
2023 - Focus, Ciné-Palestine Toulouse Occitanie, La Cinémathèque de Toulouse, France
2014 - The Clockwork of Power, Three Films by Eyal Sivan, Harvard Film Archive Cinémathèque, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, CA, USA
2013 - Eyal Sivan Film Series, Royal Belgian Film Archive, Brussels
2013 - Retrospective, 3X3 TIFF, 12th Transylvania International Film Festival, Cluj, Romania
2013 - Rassegna dedicata a Eyal Sivan (Programme Devoted to Eyal Sivan), SoleLuna Doc, Palermo, Italy
2013 - Tribute, Vision du Réel Workshop - Recognition for his creativity and formal research, VDR International Film Festival, Nyon, Switzerland (essay by Giona A. Nazzaro, also available in German)
2012–2013 - Israel/Palestine in Eyal Sivan's Cinematography, quarterly film series, Center for Near Eastern Studies, International Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
2012 - Tribute, 14th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Images of the 21st Century, Greece
2012 - Retrospective, DocPoint, 11th Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland
2012 - Artist in residence, AiR Amsterdam, hosted by the Film Academy's master film department, Netherlands, Winter
2011 - Retrospective, Exground Filmfest, 24th International Film Festival, Wiesbaden, Germany
2009 - Retrospective, IDFA, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands
2009 - Retrospective, Elogio della disobbedienza – su lavoro di Eyal Sivan (In Praise of Disobedience – On the Work of Eyal Sivan), Teatro CorTe di Coriano, Rimini, Italy
2007 - Tribute, Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
2006 - Retrospective, Sinergia de la Historia (The Synergies of History: The Cinema of Eyal Sivan), Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), L'Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Spain
2005 - Retrospective, Praise of Resistance, Cinemateca de Buenos Aires, Argentina
2004 - Tribute, Filmmaker International Film Festival, Milan, Italy
Art exhibitions
2016 - Nervous Systems - Quantified Life and the Social Question, curated by Stephanie Hankey, Marek Tuszynski and Anselm Franke, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2015 - Too Early, Too Late – Middle East and Modernity, curated by Marco Scotini, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Italy
2013 - Effervescence - Housing, Language, History - A New Generation in Jewish-Arab Cities, curated by Dr. Rona Sela, Nachum Gutman Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2013 - Disobedience Archive (The Republic), curated by Marco Scotini, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
2012 - Performing Recalcitrance, curated by Stefanie Hessler, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden, March
2010 - Documentary Moments: Renaissance - series of talks and screenings, Berlin Documentary Forum 1, New Practices Across Disciplines. Tribute to a generation of artists who contributed to the revival of documentary film in the post-war period, with filmmakers Edgar Morin, Marcel Ophuls, Alain Resnais, Frederick Wiseman and others. HKW, Berlin, Germany, 2–6 June
2010 - A History of Irritated Material, Raven Row, London, curated by Lars Bang Larsen, with Petra Bauer, Dan Kidner, Alex Sainsbury and Marco Scotini, London, UK, 25 February – 2 May
2009 - Model Court, in This Land Is Your Land, curated by Sidsel Meineche Hansen and Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow (CCA), UK, June
2008 - The Object Quality of the Problem (On the Space of Palestine/Israel), curated by Adania Shibli & Penelope Curtis, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK, 31 May – 27 July
2008 - THE SOUL (or, Much Trouble in the Transportation of Souls), Manifesta 7 European Biennial of Contemporary Art, curated by Anselm Franke and Hila Peleg, Palazzo delle Poste, Trento, Italy, July–November
2008 - Archive Fever: Between History and the Document, curated by Okwui Enwezor, International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, USA, opening in January
2007 - Frontiers, Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain
2005 - Second Present – Dislocated Memory, House of Contemporary Art Trafo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, November–December
2005 - Time Suspended, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2004 - Contemporary Arab Representations, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain, October
2004 - Territories, Frontiers, the Architecture of Warfare, Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden, September–October
2004 - Manifesta 5, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, San Sebastián, Spain, June–September
2003 - Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York, and Steidl, Göttingen, September–November
2002 - Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany, June–September
Public talks (selected)
Masterclasses
2025
• Masterclass, RITCS, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
2024
• Masterclass, Greek Documentary Association (EEN), Athens, Greece
• Masterclass, UnArchive Found Footage Festival, Rome, Italy
• Masterclass, Brushing History Against the Grain – Documentary, Truth, Montage, One World Romania Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
2017
• Masterclass, To Brush History Against the Grain: Documentary Practice Following Walter Benjamin, Restart, Zagreb, Croatia
• Doc Talk, IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam), Netherlands
2013
• Masterclass, 17th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic
• Masterclass, The Political Documentary Essay, Oslo Conference, Le Monde diplomatique Scandinavia, Oslo, Norway
• Flaherty Fellows Seminar Masterclass, Political Use of Memory, 59th Flaherty Seminar, "History Is What's Happening Now", Colgate University, New York, USA
2012
• Artist Talk, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
• Discussing the Present Shaping the Future – conversation with Eyal Sivan, special edition of the Human Rights Day programme, Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Masterclass, Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival, Greece
2010
• Masterclass, Documentary Filmmaking, History (Re)Vision and Resistance, Documentarist, Istanbul, Turkey
2009
• Masterclass, 'Elogio della disobbedienza – sul lavoro di Eyal Sivan' (In Praise of Disobedience – On the Work of Eyal Sivan), lectio magistralis, screenings and conversation, in 'Libertà come bene supremo', days of contemporary observation and critique, Teatro CorTe di Coriano, Rimini, Italy
2008
• Masterclass, Forms of Memory in Documentary Film, Internationale Filmschule, Cologne, Germany
Seminars
2025
• Seminar, Cinematic 'Reenactment' and the Critique of the Witness-Spectator, International Laboratory for Research in the Arts, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
2024
• Seminar, 'Of Collaboration and Contention', Nida Doctoral School, Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Nida, Lithuania
• Workshop, 'Political Filmmaking', Dutch Art Institute, PAF, St-Erme, France
2021
• Seminar, 'On Production of Subjectivity, Beyond the Psychic I', Essay Film Studio | Łódź Film School, Poland
2015
• Seminar, 'Palestine/Israel: Political Reality – Filmic Perspectives', Philipps University of Marburg, Germany
2014
• Seminar, Montage, mon beau souci: du montage interdit au montage obligatoire (Editing, My Fine Concern: From Forbidden Editing to Compulsory Editing), in "une forme qui pense", or Cinema According to Jean-Luc Godard, Collège International de Philosophie, Paris
• Workshop, Master's in Creative Documentary, Lussas
• Workshop / Seminar, Methodology, Cinema Department / Cinéma du Réel, Bachelor & Master, HEAD Geneva, Switzerland, 2013 and 2014
2013
• Doc Nomads MA, International Filmmaker's Master in Film, LUCA School of Arts, Brussels, Belgium
• Workshop, 'Visioni Sociali' documentary workshop, INPUT/OUTPUT DOC, Arti & Laboratorio del Basso, Bari, Italy
2012
• 'DISSENT! Cinema of Politics, Politics of Cinema', KASK – School of Arts, Ghent, Belgium
2011
• Workshop, 'Elementi per un approccio documentaristico al cinema' (Elements for a Documentary Approach to Cinema), Imaginari Esplorazione Masterclass, Dynamoscopio, Milan, Italy
2010
• Seminar, Chris Marker, The Otolith Group's Turner Prize exhibition, Tate Britain, London, UK
• 'On the Right to Have Rights over Refugees' and Migrants' Images', in Imaging Migrants, a seminar series co-organized by the Centre for Research on London, Docklands Campus
• Seminar, 'Politics of Memory', New Academy of Fine Arts (NABA), Milan, Italy
2009
• Seminar, 'Common Archives: Manipulating the Enemy's Images', Design Department, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
• 'Sulla Verità e Media' (On Truth and Media), joint seminar with Prof. Giorgio Agamben, IUAV, Venice, Italy
• Seminar, 'Benjamin's Thesis on History and Documentary Practices', Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
2008
• Seminar, 'The Perpetrator's Gaze as Counter-Memory', Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Conferences, round tables, symposia
2026
• Boycotter l'exception (Boycotting the Exception – Why Boycott Culture, Part 2), with Olivier Marboeuf, Cinéma du Réel, Alliance française, Paris
2024
• Montage Interdit, in the series "Godard au contraire", Alphabetville, Art-o-rama, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille
• Izkor, Into the Heads of Israel, International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan
• Round table, 'Transmettre hier et aujourd'hui' (Passing It On, Yesterday and Today), in "30 ans après le génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda: Continuer à juger, enquêter et transmettre", Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris
• Round table, 'Civil Disobedience and Global Solidarity', in Penser avec la Palestine ("Thinking with Palestine"), École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris
• Round table, 'Reinventing Our Diasporas', in Faire bloc, international Jewish meeting, Paris
• Round table, 'Images du monde, inscription de la guerre' (Images of the World, the Inscription of War), Forum des images, Paris
• Round table, in Tigritudes, Forum des images, Paris
• Seminar, Exil. Arts, Conflictualités et Émancipation. Paysages écrits, CEPED, Université Paris Cité, Institut Convergences Migrations, Paris
2023
• 'Antisionisme – une histoire juive' (Anti-Zionism – A Jewish History), in The Passion, Crisis and Politics of Jewish Identity: Palestine-Israel and France, Sciences Po Aix/Iméra Albert Hirschman Chair, in collaboration with AMIDEX Iméra and MESOPOLHIS, Marseille
2022
• Keynote lecture, Documentary Gesture – Commentary on the Film Aus Liebe zum Volk, in the Eutopia Connected Research Community Incubator symposium: Photography and Dissent, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Cinematek, Brussels, Belgium
• Round table, 'Croire en l'histoire' (Believing in History), Rencontres d'Averroès, "Croyances et sacrés entre Europe et Méditerranée", Marseille
• 'Historical Footage in Documentary Films', international conference "Moving Images from the Archives: Historical Footage of Nazi Crimes in Documentaries", DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany
2021
• 'Dissident Narratives of Contested Topographies', discussion with Yara Haskiel, Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria
2020
• Round table, 'Archive Fever', CEDOC, Krakow Film Festival, Poland
2019
• Brushing History Against the Grain: Critical Knowledge Production in and Through Radical Cinematic Archival Practices, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
2018
• Round table, 'The Relation Between Filmmaking, Research and Policy Making', SOURCE Societal Security Conference, Responding to Societal Needs Through Security Policy, Brussels, Belgium
• 'Future Scenarios', conference of the project Israel-Palestine: Lands and Peoples, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, Providence, USA
2017
• Keynote lecture, Redemptory Spectacle or Emancipatory Experience: The Politics Behind the Character- and Story-Driven Documentary, in Poetics and Politics, University of Sussex, UK
• Discussion with filmmaker Raed Andoni, in Shifting Perspectives: The Arab World, IDFA, De Kleine Komedie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Round table, 'The Two-State Solution in Question', part of "La Palestine à travers l'Histoire" by iReMMO, Maison des métallos, Paris
• ArtSearch, International Symposium, Wits School of Arts, Johannesburg, South Africa
• 'The Journey from Practice "As" to Practice "Is" – An Artistic Political Consideration', in The Camera as a Tool for Research, Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
2016
• Avenali Chair in the Humanities, Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, at the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley, USA
• Israeli Film Production and Distribution, with Armelle Laborie, national tour "Un boycott légitime", BDS France
• Panel: THE VOID, Towards a Common Archive, in After the Last Sky, Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin, Germany
• Symposium, 3rd Cycle Programmes in the Arts: Realities and Practices, organized by DAS Graduate School, GrootLab, Amsterdam University of the Arts, Netherlands
2015
• Round table, 'Quel avenir pour les Palestiniens?' (What Future for the Palestinians?), Maison des métallos, Paris
• Israeli Academia Embedded in the Occupation, in Academia's Commitment to International Law and Human Rights: The Case of Israel, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Round table, 'Pouvoir(s) et violence(s)' (Power(s) and Violence(s)), part of Penser les injustices: entre cinéma et philosophie politique, a research day on Raoul Peck, Paris-Sorbonne EDV – Concepts et langages, EA Rationalités contemporaines, Centre International de Philosophie Politique Appliquée (CIPPA), Paris
2014
• Documentary Practice Following Walter Benjamin's Concept of History, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
• Keynote lecture, On the Representation of Violence, in On Violence: Political, Ethical & Aesthetic Perspectives, graduate conference, Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA
• Extinction Marathon: Visions of the Future, Serpentine Sackler Gallery extension, London, UK
• Le montage de l'histoire dans le cinéma documentaire (The Editing of History in Documentary Cinema), in Montages: Assembling as a Form and Symptom in Contemporary Art, international conference, Università IUAV di Venezia – Dipartimento di Culture del Progetto – LABIM, Laboratorio di Teoria delle Immagini, Palazzo Venice, Italy
• How to Narrate? The Gaps Between the Images, in Narrating War, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2013
• Comment Israël-Palestine nous apparaît? (How Israel-Palestine Appears to Us), Arenberg Cinema Nomades, Brussels, Belgium
• Il montaggio interdetto, un progetto su Godard (Montage Interdit, A Project on Godard), plenary lecture, Politiche della memoria 5, New Academy of Fine Arts (NABA), Milan, Italy
• Round table, 'One State for One Land', Sciences Po Paris
2012
• Keynote lecture, 'Digesting the Tube: Reflections on Media Profanation Practice', IDFA industry panel 'Found Footage in the YouTube Era', IDFA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Keynote lecture, A Land Without Image, for an Image Without Land: Palestine-Israel Between Projection and Appropriation, in 'Contested Sites/Sights', a student-led research conference, TrAIN Centre, University of the Arts London, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
• Montage Interdit, conversation with Prof. Ella Shohat and Robert Stam, Berlin Documentary Forum 2, New Practices Across Disciplines, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
• Keynote lecture, Engaged Art: Discussing the Present, Shaping the Future, Human Rights Day, Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia
• Plenary lecture, Palestine on Film, 65th Edinburgh Film Festival, Scotland
• 'Israel/Palestine in Eyal Sivan's Cinematography', discussion with Professor Gabriel Piterberg, Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA, USA
• 'Critique of Nationalism and the Politics of Memory', festival and symposium, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
• 'Making' in Truth, Dare or Promise: Revisiting Art and Documentary, co-organized by Royal Holloway University of London, University of East London and University of Ulster, at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
2011
• Keynote lecture, Godard's Timeline: 1939–1949, From Europe to Palestine and Back, in "Cinema Clash Continuum: Film and History in the Age of Godard", Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Adolf Eichmann, 50 Years Later, plenary lecture, Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark
• The Human Snapshot: 'Retour aux biens communs' and 'Une démocratie xénophobe', dialogue between Eyal Sivan, Alessandro Petti and Sandi Hilal, LUMA, Arles, France
• 'The Family of Man', discussion with Ariella Azoulay, Georges Didi-Huberman and Eyal Sivan, Le Bal, Paris
• 'Le racisme dans tous ses états' (Racism in All Its Forms), conversation around two books, Question juive/Question noire by Léon Trotsky and Racisme: mode d'emploi by Rokhaya Diallo, Le Lieu dit, Paris
• 'Devil's Advocate: Collaboration and Resistance by the Law', Forensic Architecture, Beit Sahour, Palestine
• 'The Use of Film in the 1946 Nuremberg Tribunal and Its Influence on Documentary Practice', in Cross-Disciplinary Drama in the Courtroom, symposium 'A Thousand Eyes – Media, Technology, Law, and Aesthetics', Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
• Seminar, 'Adolf Eichmann: Fifty Years Later', DIIS, co-organized with the Department of History and Area Studies, Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier, Aarhus University, Denmark
2010
• Artist Talk, On 'Memory', 'Analogy', 'Comparison'... and My Other Cinematographic Crimes, Architectural Association Artist's Series (supported by the London Consortium), London, UK
• Plenary lecture, Memory and Disobedience, in Politiche della memoria, NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti), Milan, Italy
• 'The Common Archive' & 'Imaginary Property': Between Practice and Theoretical Research, Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland. SRG SSR Idée Suisse, Focal
• Plenary lecture, On the Archive Concept and Media Practice From and Towards the Archive, SnapShots exhibition, Zochrot Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
• Round table, 'The Image in Question II: Henchman Glance (Chris Marker, undated)', discussion between Adrian Rifkin, Eyal Sivan and The Otolith Group (Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar), Tate Britain, London, UK
• 'The Common Archive & Imaginary Property, Towards an Authentic Documentary Film Practice on the Internet!', in AGORA: Web Issues, Visions du Réel, Ferme du Manoir, Nyon, Switzerland
• 'Thinking Truth, Memory and Film Editing Following the Eichmann Trial Filmed Archive', paper presented at Filming the Eichmann Trial, Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES), Center for Jewish Studies (CJS), supported by the UCLA/Mellon Program on the Holocaust in American and World Culture, international conference, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
• 'Concentrationary Memories', Centre CATH, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, UK
2009
• Plenary lecture, History Re-Vision, in 'Politics of Memory 2', NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti), Milan, Italy
• Studio Talk (Part 2), plenary lecture, in 'Of a People Who Are Missing', on the films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, film club and exhibition, curated by Annett Busch and Florian Schneider, Extra City – Kunsthal Antwerpen, Belgium
• Moses and Aaron, introduced by Eyal Sivan, in 'Of a People Who Are Missing', Extra City – Kunsthal Antwerpen, Belgium
• Keynote lecture, Political Evil and Perpetrators' Representation in Documentary Practice, in 'Libertà come bene supremo', days of contemporary observation and critique, co-organized by Comune di Coriano, Fondazione G.A. Battarra, Fondazione Corte Coriano, Rimini, Italy
• Seminar, 'Generosity and the Common', Research Architecture Roundtable, Extra City – Kunsthal Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
• Seminar, 'Common Archive', in Liminal Zone: The Nicosia Seminar, Nicosia, Cyprus, co-organized by the Department of Architecture, School of Engineering, University of Cyprus (UCY), Reconstruction and Resettlement Council, Cyprus (RRC), Goethe-Institut Nicosia, Nicosia Municipality, Pharos Trust, Jan van Eyck Academie, University of East London
• 'In the Court of the Image, A Discussion with Eyal Sivan and The Otolith Group', in A Long Time Between Suns, Part II, The Showroom, London, UK
• 'War Crimes Justice in the Context of the Recent Attack on Gaza', Human Rights Film Festival, Multimedia Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
• Opposition to Zionism Within Judaism, SOAS Palestine Society, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK
• 'Justice, histoire et mémoire, quelles relations? Que juger, comment juger, pourquoi juger?' (Justice, History and Memory: What Relations? What to Judge, How to Judge, Why Judge?), Les sentiers de la mémoire, Coutances, France
• 'Transmission Interrupted', conversation between Eyal Sivan and Thomas Keenan, Director, Human Rights Project, and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Bard College, New York, Department of History of Art, Oxford, UK
• 'Manipulation of Perpetrators' Memory in Archival Practices', in 'Imag(in)ing (Hi)storytelling', 16th Image Studies Symposium, Madrid, Spain
• 'Spaces of Perpetration' (with Eyal Weizman), in Zones of Conflict: 'Uneven Geographies' Symposium, UCL Department of History of Art, London, UK
2008
• Keynote lecture, The Witness Eichmann: On Redeeming the Perpetrator Testimony, in Eyewitness, a Leverhulme Workshop on the Documentary Turn in Legal and Visual Culture, School of Law, Birkbeck College, London, UK
• 'The Israeli Occupation: Society in Apathy', conversation with Gideon Levy (Haaretz) and Karma Nabulsi (Oxford), SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London, UK
• 'Towards a Common Archive: The Nakba in the Words of Its Perpetrators', SOAS Oral History Day, in association with the SOAS Palestine Society and LSE SU Palestine Society
• Documentary: Nakba Perpetrators / History of the Jaffa Orange Brand Name, symposium 'Palestine Variations: Contrapuntal Themes in History, Religion, and Culture', Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
• 'Cinematic Memory: Holocaust and Nakba', in 'Palestine: 60 Years of Dispossession and Resistance', Nakba Day event, School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, supported by the Refugee Research Centre, Matrix East Research Lab, Framing Muslims (an AHRC research programme), London, UK
2007
• 'Passeur de réel: Eyal Sivan', in the series Sur les Docks by Joseph Confavreux, France Culture, Radio France
• 'Visual Civil Fundamentalism', symposium around the book The Civil Contract of Photography by Dr. Ariella Azoulay, Minshar School of Art and Cultural Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
• 'Le fonti audiovisive e la storia contemporanea: Eyal Sivan e Pierre Sorlin – Il Documentario', Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Istituto Parri Emilia-Romagna, Modena, Italy
• 'Filming the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict', 7th International Documentary Conference – Ethics and the Documentary, Instituto Itaú Cultural, organized by CINUSP 'Paulo Emílio' – Vice-Rectorate of Culture/Extension, University of São Paulo, 'It's All True' International Documentary Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
• 'Filmed Interviews and Individual Stories: What Kind of History Do They Tell Us? The Relationship Between History, Cinema and Television', Parri Institute of Bologna, with the University and the Videoteca Regionale, Bologna, Italy
• 'The Construction of Double-Standard Humanity, Zionism, Israeli Media and Rationalising Racist Consciousness', Israeli Apartheid Week, international conference organized by the SOAS Palestine Society, London, UK
2006
• Conversation between Tzvetan Todorov and Eyal Sivan: 'Storie e narrazioni, Usi propri e impropri della memoria' (Stories and Narratives: Proper and Improper Uses of Memory), Casa della Cultura, Milan, Italy
2005
• Keynote lecture, History and Memory: A Visual Approach, in "Historia y Memoria: perspectivas para el abordaje del pasado reciente", international conference organized by the Comisión por la Memoria, the Museo de Arte y Memoria and the Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
• Second edition of the Cinéma et Justice festival: conflicts, crimes and reconciliation, organized by Filmhuis Den Haag (The Hague Film House), the International Criminal Court and the French Embassy in the Netherlands
• 'Forger un avenir commun' (Forging a Common Future), in "L'éducation à la diversité", part of Une âme pour la mondialisation, organized by Les Rencontres de Fès, Morocco
• 'Route 181, en quoi cela nous regarde?' (Route 181, How Does It Concern Us?), organized by the journal Zenya and the Institut Français de Tokyo, Maison Française d'Iidabashi, Tokyo, Japan
• 'Racisme et Cinéma' (Racism and Cinema), part of a young leadership training programme in the periphery at the Mandel Institute, Jerusalem, Israel
• 'La politique de la mémoire' (The Politics of Memory), Jaffa Academic College, Tel Aviv, Israel
• 'Mon lieu israélien' (My Israeli Place), in L'Espace israélien, organized by the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
• 'Les camps de réfugiés palestiniens, une solution provisoire devenue permanente' (Palestinian Refugee Camps: A Provisional Solution Become Permanent), in Archipelago of Exception, Sovereignties of Extraterritoriality, organized by the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), Goldsmiths, University of London, the Human Rights Project at Bard College (New York) and Kunst-Werke, Berlin
• 'Violence and New Waves of Institutional Violence: Prisons and Torture', organized by La Comisión Provincial por la Memoria, La Plata, Argentina
2004
• Plenary lecture, Mémoire pour l'oubli: de la politique de la mémoire en Israël, ou La mémoire comme un moyen de combat (Memory for Forgetting: On the Politics of Memory in Israel, or Memory as a Means of Struggle), Gilo Center for Citizenship, Democracy and Civic Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• 'Rôle et influence des religions et des églises dans le domaine social' (The Role and Influence of Religions and Churches in the Social Sphere), organized by La Libre Pensée and the International Humanist and Ethical Union, Paris, France
• 'Apprendre l'histoire par le cinéma' (Learning History Through Cinema), in Cinéma, Mémoire et Histoire, Rencontres oranaises du cinéma, Alençon, France
• 'Analogical Memory, Aus Liebe zum Volk', Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
• 'The New Wall', Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
• 'The Partition Road', in Cities of Collision, organized by the International Peace and Cooperation Center (IPCC), Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, University of the Arts Berlin and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem & Tel Aviv, Israel
• 'Re-Appropriation of Memory in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict', in Arab Contemporary Representations, Critical Discourses and Political Thinking, San Sebastián, Spain
2003
• 'Mental Borders', in Negotiations: From a Peace of Land to a Land of Peace, University of Toronto, Canada
• 'Instrumentalisation of Memory in Israel', Paideia Institute, European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden
• 'Filmer l'histoire' (Filming History), Studio National des Arts Contemporains Le Fresnoy, France
• 'Crossing Borders', in Conflict, Ma'alot Tarshiha, Israel
• Round table, 'Israéliens, Palestiniens: que peut le cinéma?' (Israelis, Palestinians: What Can Cinema Do?), moderated by Jean-Luc Hees, published in La Revue Documentaires, No. 19
2002
• 'La mémoire dans les relations entre Israël et la communauté internationale' (Memory in Relations Between Israel and the International Community), Institut d'Études Politiques, Paris
2001
• 'Historical Testimony and the Limits of Representation', in Transitional Justice and the Process of Truth and Reconciliation, Documenta XI Platform 2, New Delhi, India
2000
• 'Opposition et dissidence' (Opposition and Dissidence), in La Paix et les institutions internationales, Rotary Centre for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution, Paris, France
• Mémoire interdite (Forbidden Memory) – Meeting at Lussas, États généraux du film documentaire, La Revue Documentaires No. 16 – Mémoire interdite
Academic
Positions
• Co-director, Master in Artistic Research, Royal Academy of Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark (2019–2020)
• Head of the Film and Visual Art Research Unit and Lead Professor of the Film Master's, NFA National Film Academy, Amsterdam University of the Arts (AhK), Amsterdam, Netherlands (2016–2020)
• Mentor for graduation films and projects, HES-SO Master's in Cinema, HEAD Geneva School of Art and Design and ECAL Cantonal School of Art of Lausanne, Switzerland (2014–2015)
• Guest professor and advisor, Film Master's programme, NFA National Film Academy, Amsterdam University of the Arts (AhK), Amsterdam, Netherlands (2010–2015)
• Co-director, MA in Film and New Media, School of Arts and Digital Industries (ADI), University of East London, London, UK (2007–2011)
• Head of the Film and New Media programme, UEL (University of East London), UK (2007–2010)
• Reader (associate professor) in Media Production, School of Arts and Digital Industries (ADI), University of East London, London, UK (2007–2011)
• Guest professor, Cultural Studies and Visual Practices, Film Department, School of Visual Arts, Sapir Academic College, Sderot, Israel (2004–2015)
• Visiting lecturer, Film Department, IUAV Venice, Italy (2004)
• Guest professor, Arab School of Cinema, Nazareth, Palestine (2005–2006)
• Lecturer, Media School, College of Management, Herzliya, Israel (2005)
Curriculum development
• Co-designed the MA in Audio-Visual Media Practice for Non-Artistic Academic Research Disciplines - NFA, National Film Academy, Amsterdam University of the Arts (AhK), Netherlands (2017)
• Curriculum advisor to the head of the undergraduate Film and Television programme, School of Sound and Screen Arts, Sapir Academic College, Israel (2015)
• Co-author and advisor on the design of the Film Master's: Artistic Research in and through Cinema - NFA, National Film Academy, Amsterdam University of the Arts (AhK), Netherlands (2014)
• Research director, project 'Towards a Common Archive, Palestine 1948', UEL, AHRC, Exeter University (ECPS), UK (2011–2012)
• Academic advisor and evaluator for the Film Master's programme, written by Prof. A. Feingelernt and J. Neeman, Sapir Academic College, Israel (2011)
• Designed the postgraduate programme, Department of Visual Arts, NABA Academy, Milan, Italy (2011)
• Co-designed the MA in Film and Media and the BA in Film Studies, UEL, London, UK (2007–2010)
• Co-initiator and coordinator of the international symposium Lesser Evils, with Ariella Azoulay, Roger Berkowitz, Simon Critchley, Olivia Custer, Adi Ophir, Renata Salecl, Joshua Simon and Karen Sullivan, Bard College, New York, USA (February 2008)
• Conceptualisation and development of a postgraduate programme in Theory through Practice, University of East London, UK (2007–2010)
Courses
• Visualising History, reading Walter Benjamin's theses - BA in Film Studies
• What Do We See When We Look? - undergraduate Film Studies
• Independent Film and Video Production - postgraduate
• On Revolution and Cinema - undergraduate Film Studies
• From Idea to Project through Research, a Subjective Journey - introduction to the course series Artistic Research in and through Cinema, focusing on intention and subjectivity. The course defines the stages from intention to project and develops knowledge of the research context and of one's individual positioning within cinematic research, emphasising the ability to understand, develop and creatively express one's subjectivity.
• Method(s) and Methodology in Cinematic Research - within artistic research, one's working method(s) form part of each researcher's artistic identity. This subjective approach to methodology questions existing research methods in other fields, the absence of a fixed methodology in research in and through cinema, and the diversity of its subjective research methods.
• Experience, Experimentation and Research Plan - the role of experience in the process of cinematic and visual research. The dialectical and practical relations between experimentation and experience in research 'in and through cinema'. The research and project plan is conceived and established through the process of experimentation and experience.
• Concept & Process of Conceptualisation - by studying the close links between visual and cinematic concepts and other concepts, this course considers the capacity of visual practice to contribute to new forms of (subjective) knowledge production, emphasising the importance of developing critical concepts throughout the practice process.
• P.O.V. - Conceptualisation and Research Outcomes Exhibition - a workshop based on publishing and exhibiting research and project outcomes with regard to each researcher's point of view (POV) on knowledge production. The workshop invites critical examination of the academic written abstract and presents the practice of the visual abstract as a tool for conceptualising and exhibiting concepts and research outcomes.
• Projecting History - How Cinema Writes History? - the relations between cinema and history operate on several levels. Both are 'edited' along a timeline. They deal with history and its narration, and exist between reality and representation. This practical and theoretical seminar focuses on the relations between history and cinema, emphasising the writing of history in general and the practice of cinema in particular.
• Towards a Critical Visual Thinking - in our image-saturated reality, where icons determine the perception of reality, it is necessary to develop a critical visual theory as a tool for changing reality. This course is a journey through the schools, thinkers, theorists and practitioners of the 20th century and today, active across different disciplines and visual media.
• Cinema History, Memory, Testimony - what do we see when we observe a representation of reality? The course addresses the link between the historical event and time, memory and what is represented by cinema. It questions the dialectic between remembering and forgetting, testimony, who bears witness and what testimony is.
• Ethical Dilemmas in Documentary Filmmaking - visual practice or representation is not morally neutral. Artistic instinct, need or desire, and freedom of expression and creation cannot be the only considerations when making moral choices. The course addresses practical and theoretical questions concerning ethics across different fields and levels of documentary visual practice.
• Introduction to Documentary Cinema - the course presents, in non-chronological order, the multilayered, multiform history of documentary cinema, both as a visual positioning and as an attitude towards reality. So-called documentary, non-fiction or reality-cinema practices, with their many visual genres, function as a laboratory and an avant-garde for all cinematic practices.