In AAVS Brussels you will experiment with film with the cutting edge film director Luis Cerveró. Film will be addressed as a critical instrument to inquire on the role of architecture in providing a space of representation for contemporary political bodies. Brussels, home of Benelux, EU and NATO, will be taken as a paradigmatic example, and the European Parliament as a concrete case study. The output of the workshop will be short films directed by the students and produced with the support of a specialized team from the HELB.
The workshop is based on the assumption that film is an instrument that can mediate architectural experience and thus construct a new understanding on existing architectures. This year, the workshop will use the audiovisual medium as an architectural tool to project new narratives on and unveil the hidden poetics of the building of the European Parliament. The objective of the exercise is to reactivate its representative role within a contemporary context in which generating strategies depend on digital media to a great extent.
The Directorate-General for Communication of the European Parliament will expose their present communication program and present the institution and building. A pool of invited teachers, with experience in different disciplines, will help to develop the projects and give a critical insight to the work. A series of lectures will articulate the theoretical content of the course. The final pieces will be presented in a public event. The European Parliament reserves the right to use the films for communication purposes.
