Boutin, P;
Henzler, B;
(2025)
The act of showing: film as a social learning process.
Film Education Journal
, 8
(2)
, Article 5. 10.14324/FEJ.08.2.05.
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Abstract
This article frames the gesture of showing as – at the same time – a pedagogical gesture and a gesture intrinsic to film. It raises the question of what happens when this gesture passes on to pupils who are making their own films in class and projecting them in a cinema space. What are the effects on the pedagogical relation, on the social dynamics and on the possible learning processes? These questions are addressed in analysing and comparing the long-term observations of two workshops: in Paris (France) and in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). The workshops formed part of the international film education programme Le cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse, in the cycle 2022–2023 on the subject ‘Centred-Decentred’. The article deals with the role of the filmmaker; the social dimension of the process of filmmaking; the social and symbolic function of technical devices; and the projection of films as a collective process of recognition, responsibility and exchange. It discusses these dimensions within three different frames: the school institution, professional filmmaking and the international programme, especially taking into consideration the aspects of inclusion and gender.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The act of showing: film as a social learning process |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/FEJ.08.2.05 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/FEJ.08.2.05 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | 2025, Perrine Boutin and Bettina Henzler. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/FEJ.08.2.05. |
| Keywords: | Le cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse, film education, filmmaking, film projection, social learning, aesthetic education, film techniques, gesture of showing, inclusion, gender |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10219753 |
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