Current technologies are bringing about radical changes in our ways of creating and disseminating images: millions of digital video and stills are produced and shared daily, reflecting every aspect of reality.
In this new situation there seems to be little room for film-based photography: its once impressive capacities for reproduction and distribution seem rather limited today, when compared to current technologies. A recent article in WIRED magazine refers to photo equipment as “dinosaurs of the film age”.
All of this begs the question: What are the reasons to carry on a film-based photographic practice?
This course is conceived as a response to this question and to current challenges confronted by film- based photography as a valid means to reflect on the world today. In ongoing discussions and class projects we will examine this medium’s history as well as its technical and philosophical basis in order to adventure new possibilities for a film-based artistic photographic practise.