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Application deadline: March 31, 2026
What does it mean to create media in a city poised at risk of vanishing? What can the video essay do to preserve, reframe, and reimagine our relationship to vulnerable spaces, ecologies, and cultural heritages? Step into Venice, one of the world’s most fragile landscapes, not as a visitor, but as a videoessayist, and learn to navigate through delicate terrains.
This summer school explores how the video essay can be a dynamic digital intervention to suture the fragments of past and present to imagine the Venice to come. Combining critical analysis with creative practice, we will engage with Venice as both subject and medium, using videographic methods to engage intellectually and emotionally with its layered histories, cultural resonances, and fragilities. Students will examine the city’s cinematic representations, explore video essays as landscapes of intellectual, spatial, and emotional experimentation, and reflect on the interplay between cultural heritage, social dynamics, and fragile ecologies.
Suitable for: participants of all levels - from graduate students to tenured faculty - and from any academic background, as the video essay is a versatile tool that can be applied across disciplines.
For further information visit our website or send an email to summerschools@univiu.org
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