Think Twice Workshop

Anze Grabeljsek from Slovenia has posted all the pictures he had taken during the workshop on his website. Needless to say, they are all fantastic.  

One of the requirements of the workshop was that participants from each country were required to bring along a piece of work highlighting an artist from said country. Olof Werngren has just posted the video made by him and Maja Atterstig, a portrait of Swedish artist Kristofer Ström.

These photos were mainly taken during the production of Madarka, madarka, but they include some sightseeing shots as well.

Another short film created during Think Twice by Katja Zerko, Albertina Sparrhult, James Ward & Pedro Maia, starring Zita Téby.  

Here's the completed film of another group. Lightbulbs was screened first on Wednesday in Toldi Mozi. Actress:Bea Lass Movie by: Mariana Pereira Paul McGuigan Olof Werngren

The workshop ended this Wednesday, but we are finally receiving the finished works for the blog. Here is the world premiere of Holy Squeezes, a short film created by Maja Atterstig, Ana Marques Dias, Sasa Spacal and Gary Boyd, starring Bálint Adorjáni. Holy Squeezes was shot on a Canon XH A1s…

Maja offered us another batch of pictures, displaying their work in the hostel, a bit of sightseeing and meeting with Hungarian director Virág Zomborácz.  

Here are some photos made by Anze Grabeljsek during the thematic sightseeing and the actual creation of one of the projects, along with some candid snapshots of workshop participants.

One of the participants, Maja Atterstig, gave us some pictures tonight, encapsulating her first day, preparing props for their shoot and the filming itself in Kerepesi Cemetery.  

Two volunteers, Kinga Hárskuti and Anna Gyimesi have organized a tour one night for the participants, based around the more well-known "ruin pubs" of Budapest. Here is a short album of that night. 

Day 4, Saturday - Reto Caffi, the Swiss director whose short film 'Along the Line' has been nominated for Oscar and screened in the 'This Is Europe' block, was conducting a miniworkshop on how to direct actors for the participants of Think Twice. James Lees, English director of two other screened…

On 13th November, on the 3rd day of the workshop the Eushorts Festival started in Toldi. Little welcome speech by the creators before the screening of the opening block, 'This Is Europe', and chill out around midnight with Lamantin DJs' concert. Between the two visitors could be shivered by the…

First working day, 12th Nov 09: the first mixed international team of the participants had the Beyond Budapest tour in the 'Creative 8th District' ('Alkotó Nyócker'). Pictures taken by Olof Wengren, Swedish music video maker, participant of the workshop.  

Here are some photos a volunteer, Szabó Karolina made yesterday, while walking around last night with participants of the workshop. We'll upload more photos as we receive them.

No, just because there isn't any update on the blog, it doesn't mean that nothing happened today during the Think Twice workshop. Participants screened their projects, showcasing a contemporary artist of choice from their country this morning in Toldi. Hopefully all of them will be presented on this…

Teams will visit another disctrict of Budapest. This time however, they must discover this part of the city on their own, with the helping guidance of a Hungarian speaking volunteer. The volunteers are art and film students from Budapest. Participants will get a theme according to which you need to…

This is a complex task, consisting of several phases.First phase: a special thematic sightseeing tour in the 8th disctrict of Budapest, which has a infamous reputation among locals, but in fact is a great source of hidden treasures and interesting people. The tour is organised by our partners,…

As mentioned in the post about the workshop tasks previously, participants will have to cooperate with a young director during the preproduction of the Exercise in Style bit. Here is a list of - extremely helpful - directors who agreed to participate in Think Twice. Simon Szabó is a young…

Here is one of the three tasks the participants of the workshop have to complete during the week.Every team will receive an object on the first day. They will have to use this object at its fullest potential for a week to reate a concept around it with the audiovisual instruments at hand. The object…

The participants for the Think Twice workshop are arriving today. One of their first tasks will be to get to know each other. For those who would like to find out what they do online, here are some websites of the people involved. Saša Spačal from Slovenia is a video artist, on her vimeo page…

Participants in the Think Twice Workshop will have the opportunity to work with young actresses and actors from Hungary. Here is a short description of them. Bea Lass is a young Hungarian actress. After graduation, her university class decided to form their own ensemble and continue working…

The EuShorts Festival is planning an audiovisual workshop for 2009, with young people of five European countries participating. The aim is to have the debuting artists arriving in Budapest to test their creativity, their artistic ambitions and to acquire useful experiencewith the help of Hungarian…