entropyTV
First Workshop
Gülpınar August 5 - 11, 2007
The first workshop of entropyTV took place in Gülpınar during the meeting point festival in August 2007. The course leader Thomas Büsch and Sabine Küper analysed examples of single take movies from the history of the moving image in a wide spectrum from “L'Arrive d'un train en gare de la Ciotat” by the Lumiere Brothers to “Children of Men” by Alfonso Cuaron. After having sessions for developing ideas for short single take digital narratives, the participants moved into the hands-on process of shooting. The course highlighted the difficulties of the single take and concentrated on ways of transforming the idea from conception into a narrative. The narratives focussed mostly on the environment in Gülpınar, or the events taking place during the festival, documenting the surrounding and the participant’s perceptions.
Subsequently these digital videos are published as part of the workshop over the Internet, in the section of entropyTV.
German independent filmmakers and TV journalists Sabine Küper and Thomas Büsch make movies, supplying the broadcast channels with investigations and research in the form of contemporary documentaries, current affairs, specialist features, new narration and daytime factual genres.
They are based in Istanbul, focusing on creative programmes, documentaries on South East Europe, Turkey and its neighbouring countries. In 2007, they have won "Best Short Documentary" award by the Brooklyn Arts Council for the BAC 41st International Film and Video Festival in New York City, USA with their short documentary “The Story of Water Sprite”.
http://www.doc-film.de/
This workshop is part of the New Media Program of Diyalog.
entropy
In information theory, entropy or information entropy is a measure of the uncertainty associated with a random variable.
Entropy quantifies information in a piece of data.
It is also the shortest average message length, that can be sent to communicate the true value of the random variable to a recipient.
For the 10th International İstanbul Biennial, five curators from Turkey have been invited to select over 150 short video works from an open-call to the public. During the nights, the program, under the title of "Nightcomers", will be projected in public spaces in different parts of the city, from the centre to the periphery.
The Workshop Series
entropyTV will be the result of a series of workshops organized by Diyalog taking place in different regions in Turkey and the European countries.
entropyTV stands for a 'television network to reduce the hegemony of broadcast channels and film industries’. It is intended to become a video-blog publishing short videos and acting as an online archive committed to the preservation of the diversity of identities.
The workshops are focusing on creating short video narratives, shot in a single take. The whole process is an act focusing on the economics of video narration. Because shooting single takes requires knowledge, creative vision and organizational precision.
The videos, shot from the moment of turning the camera on, to the moment of turning the camera off, with no interruption and no editing, are published online on the videosection of entropyTV.
