Poetics of Online Documentary at Hot Docs documentary festival in Toronto, Canada.

Maybe you’ve heard of the internet and how everybody is going to be watching documentaries online in, well, soon. But will they look like documentaries as we know them? Panelists will present samples of online works and discuss the emergence of new doc forms.

Thursday May 6 | 11:00am – 12:15pm
Location: Rogers Industry Centre.

Moderator: Ana Serrano | Director, CFC Media Lab (Canada)

Participants:
Annette Bradford | Online Producer, CBC Documentary Unit, CBC (Canada)
Katerina Cizek | Director/Coordinator, HIGHRISE, National Film Board of Canada (Canada)
David Oppenheim | Head of Development / Interactive Producer, Kensington Communications Inc. (Canada)
Florian Thalhofer | Director, Korsakow (Germany)

Update: Kelly Anderson & Lindsay Gibb wrote an article about the panel.

Students at the Bilgi-University in Istanbul produce short video-clips for the ARTE-Istanbul website. The videos will go online in May. The workshop is led by Sabine Lange (ARTE, Strasbourg) and myself.

March 1 – 3, 2010

My mother is proud. I am invited to give the keynote-talk at the Documentary Now! conference in London. I will talk about storytelling, the Korsakow-way of thinking and the history of the Korsakow-System (Korsakow will turn 10 years this fall).  I will also show exepts of my Korsakow-films and explain how the world works.

Saturday 16 January | 4:30 – 6:00 pm
Birkbeck Main Building (Malet Street/Torrington Square)

A new exhibition is on at the Jewish Museum Berlin. The very last piece in the exhibition is a Korsakow-Film:

What does koscher mean to you?

Religious, traditional and secular Jews from different generations and different
cultural backgrounds ponder the significance of the dietary laws in their lives. They talk about the many possibilities of living out traditions, interpreting laws and designing identities in a non-Jewish environment.

October 9, 2009 – February 28, 2010
Jüdisches Museum Berlin

Director: Ruth Olshan, Camera: Simone Schmid, Dietmar Ratsch
Sound: Matthias Pätsch, Edit: Kathrine Granlund
Concept: Media-Department of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Made with the Korsakow-System by Florian Thalhofer | Berlin, 2009

With:
Aviel Avdar mit Katrin Wank, Hillel Ben Sasson, Inge Borck (geb. David), Benjamin, Shulamit Jakobi, Rachel Kohn mit Familie, Yael und Shelly, Chris Merritt, Irina Rosensaft, Irene Runge mit Igor Chalmiev und Andreas Poetke, Shlomit Tulgan

Questions asked by:
Monika Flores, Dagmar Ganßloser, Edna Herlinger, Henriette Kolb, Mirjam Wenzel

“Sheik Suellim has seven sons” Maher says proudly.
“Seven Sons, and not one daughter?” I wonder.
“Seven sons,” Maher replies, “and further more six daugthers.”

7 Sons is now available online watch in any browser:

www.7sons.com

The Documentary Film School ZeLIG in Bolzano turn twenty. They have invited me to talk:

Samstag/Sabato 29.11.08 | 14.30-16.30
Non-linear, interactive: new ways of storytelling
Seminar by Florian Thalhofer

And there is much more: download the Flyer

November 17, 2008, LOS ANGELES —The movie world has been fretting for years about the collapse of stardom. Now there are growing fears that another chunk of film architecture is looking wobbly: the story. …

Talk at Concordia University, Montréal, Canada

On Monday October 20th at 10.15am in CJ 1.114, Berlin-based media artist Florian Thalhofer will be giving a lecture about the emergent medium of database narrative. Specifically, this talk will focus on his development of the Korsakow System, a free authoring tool for creating interactive narrative works.

Florian will also show excerpts from a series of database documentaries he has created over the past eight years using Korsakow, exploring themes such as nationalism, identity, class and consumerism. This event is part of a three-week residency at Concordia sponsored by CINERG, and is open to grad students, senior undergrads, and faculty. (NB Space is limited since this talk will be part of a regular class.) Any questions, don’t hesitate to ask.

Tobias Hülswitt spricht in der Villa-Aurora-Nacht über sein Interview mit dem Erfinder und Langlebigkeitspionier Ray Kurzweil, über den u.V.v.D. und die Verzweiflung des Gilgamesch.

Tobias Huelswitt talks about his interview with longevity pioneer Ray Kurzweil, about the u.V.v.D. and Gilgamesh’s despair.

Villa Aurora Forum Berlin, Jägerstrasse 23, 4. November, 20 Uhr

Tobias Huelswitt is reading amongst other german, polish, ukrainian and russian authors at the Villa Deciusza, Sat., Oct. 11, 8 pm

London
Oct 27 – Nov 1 | Moving Image Lab @ B3 Media London

Amsterdam
Nov 21 – Nov 26 | Any Media Documentary Workshop @ IDFA

When the artist Holger Mohaupt visited Györ, a small town in the south of Hungary he was fascinated by the local people and their diverse means of navigating the city. He developped a non-linear journey using the Korsakow-System software that reflects on some of his observations.

CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
2nd Aug to 13th Sept 2008 / Tues to Sat 11am – 6pm

I always thought I am Mr. Gadget. Maybe it is George.

Dear All,

Florian Thalhofer the developer of the Korsakow software will be doing a presentation of his work and a preview of the Sam the Wheels Korsakow project at the 198 Gallery on Friday the 15th of August at 7.30pm.

Please email your interest in coming to see his presentation to
info@mutinyarts.co.uk

Cheers
George

Together with the Cinedans Festival, Mediamatic present a hands-on workshop on interactive dance film with a focus on interactive film installations.

Amsterdam, 30 June – 4 July 2008

Price:
€ 420
€ 300 (for people from new EU countries)

EsoDoc is a EU’s Media Plus training initiative that encourages documentary film makers to work in the areas of human rights, social justice and environmental protection. ESoDoc offers three 1-week sessions held over a 6-month period, during which participants develop a documentary film projects.
I am invited as a teacher, to meet up with a fantastic group of people from all over Europe. The first session of this workshop takes place in a christian monastery (the second time I am in christian monastery, this year). It is a cool place in North-Italy, in the middle of the mountains.

May 31 – June 6, 2008
Kloster Neustrift – Abbazia di Novacella, Bressanone, Italy