Mirko
Winkel

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Mirko Winkel is the coordinator of the mLAB. The artist and curator teaches at the University of Bern and other places with the aim of synthesizing art with scientific research and socio-political concerns.

Susan
Thieme

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Susan Thieme is professor of Critical Sustainability Studies at the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern. She brought the Global Science Film Festival to Bern and co-developed the Social Learning Video Method. She is co-founder of the mLAB.  MORE

Carolin
Schurr

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Carolin Schurr is professor of Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Bern. As a feminist geographer, she has developed and experimented with affectual and visual methods to grasp the emotional effects of globalization processes on our intimate lives. She is co-founder of the mLAB.  MORE

Alexander
Vorbrugg

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Alexander Vorbrugg is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in Critical Sustainability Studies at the University of Bern. His research interests include visual forms of research and science communication. He is part of the coordination group of the mLAB. MORE

Laura
Perler

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Laura Perler is a postdoctoral researcher in Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Bern. In her research she investigates inequalities in relation to reproductive technologies and the Swiss asylum system. In her projects she uses audiovisual approaches and collaborates with artists. Together with Mirko Winkel, she is currently organizing a traveling exhibition on egg donation. She is part of the coordination group of the mLAB. MORE

Stefan
Brönnimann

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Stefan Brönnimann is a professor in Climatology at the University of Bern. His research focuses on weather and climate reconstruction, climate models, climate dynamics, effects of volcanic eruptions on climate and climate and society interactions. MORE

Elisabeth
Militz

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Elisabeth Militz is an Assistant Professor for Social and Digital Geographies at the University of Innsbruck. As a feminist political and cultural geographer, her focus lies on global/intimate relations and digital transformations. She experiments with affectual and feminist digital methodologies for human geographies. MORE

Adrien
Mestrot

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Adrien Mestrot is a professor in Soil Science at the University of Bern. Part of his research topics is analyzing the biogeochemistry of soils under global change to improve environmental health and food production.  MORE

Nora
Komposch

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Nora Komposch is a PhD student and assistant in Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Bern. Her research interests are geographies of the body, care and reproduction, migration and labor, and politics of the global intimate. MORE

Prisca Pfammatter

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Prisca Pfammatter (she/her) is a PhD student in Critical Sustainability Studies at the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern. Her research explores the experiences of queer farmworkers in Switzerland, using dance-based methodologies to examine the intersections of gender, sex, sexuality, and social sustainability in agriculture.

Johanna
Paschen

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Johanna Paschen is a PhD student in Critical Sustainability Studies at the University of Bern. Her research interests include social and environmental justice, transdisciplinarity and artistic research. In cooperation with the Academy of the Arts Bern, she is involved with the research project EcoArtLab. MORE

Luca
Tschiderer

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Luca Tschiderer is a PhD student in Critical Sustainability Studies at the University of Bern. His research focuses on alternative practices of work in health- and care related contexts. As part of his PhD project he uses social learning videos as a participatory method towards workers inquiry. MORE

Sarah
Hartmann

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Sarah Hartmann is a Postdoc student in Critical Sustainability Studies at the University of Bern. Her research looks at issues around work, transnational mobilities and future transformations in healthcare from a critical sustainability perspective. MORE

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2024
Workshop

7th Science Filmmaking Marathon

For Scientists, Postdocs and PhD students
Zurich 12-14 September 2024

 

DESCRIPTION

In the Filmmaking Marathon, we train researchers in the tools of dramatic storytelling and filmmaking to communicate their research and make their science more accessible to a broader audience. Participants from various Swiss universities and research centres learn the basics of visual storytelling and filmmaking and produce short films in groups under the guidance of professional filmmakers. The films produced will be screened as premieres at the 6th Global Science Film Festival (www.sciencefilm.ch) in Basel, Bern, Lugano and Zurich from November 8-10, 2024, with a special award for the best film.

WHERE

University of Zurich

DATES

12-14 September 2024 (University of Zurich)

APPLICANTS

Scientists, Postdocs and PhD students enrolled at any Swiss higher education institution

CONDITIONS

Free of charge
All participating PhD candidates matriculated can receive a certificate of participation

INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION

Samer Angelone: samer.angelone@gmail.com

MORE DETAILS

Some results of the previous filmmaking marathons:
www.sciencefilm.ch/filmmaking-marathon

PROGRAM

Day 1

  • Pitching of science stories, and creating of small groups (scientists and filmmakers)
  • Each group prepares their story, script and storyboard, and presents it to the other marathon participants

Day 2

  • Filming (participants are free to decide where and when to film)

Day 3

  • Film editing

ORGANISERS AND PARTNERS

mLAB of the Institute of Geography at University of Bern
with University of Basel, University of Zurich, ETH Zurich, Life Science Zurich, Graduate Centre of the University of Basel, EAWAG, WSL