Screening of short documentaries produced through the SPOTLIGHT Summer School in Bucharest on placemaking (2024) and multispecies relations (2025)
Screening of short documentaries produced through the SPOTLIGHT Summer School in Bucharest on placemaking (2024) and multispecies relations (2025).
by
dr. Michał Wanke, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Opole
Clara Kleininger-Wanik, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Opole; Department of Communications, Drama and Film, University of Exeter.
Moderator:
dr. Oana Șerban, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest.
An event hosted by the UNESCO Chair in Interculturality, Good Governance and Sustainable Development.
Save the date: September 30, 2025, 10AM.
The screening follows the international SPOTLIGHT Summer School on Audiovisual Capturing of the Dynamics of Place Attachment and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe. This program has been held in Opole (Poland), Budapest (Hungary), and twice in Bucharest (Romania), with financial support from the University of St. Gallen and co-hosting by New Europe College and UNATC (I. L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film).
Each year, students from across Europe collaborate in teams to develop short documentaries within a one-week intensive workshop. This event will present four short films created during the Bucharest editions of the Summer School. The screening (approx. 45 minutes) will be followed by a discussion (approx. 45 minutes) focusing on the conceptual and methodological dimensions of visual research in urban contexts. This year, the docs explore human and more-than-human relationships, multispecies encounters and urban ecology and we invite you to watch your city through their frames.
Please join us for a multimodal intellectual journey: to watch, feel, think, and talk together.
The films will be introduced and pitched by Dr. Michał Wanke, sociologist and Head of the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Opole, and Clara Kleinigner-Wanik, documentary filmmaker and visual anthropologist affiliated with the University of Opole and the University of Exeter, where she is completing her PhD on film, multispecies relationships and Indigenous knowledge.
