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- UAB Specialisation Course
- Code: 5218/1
- 1st edition
- Modality: Online
- Credits: 8 ECTS
- Start date: 19/11/2025
- Finish date: 10/06/2026
- Places: 80
- Orientation: Professional
- Price: 496 €
- Teaching language: Spanish
Advanced online course offering a deep immersion into the authorship of contemporary documentary cinema. Aimed at individuals interested in critically and creatively exploring the diverse forms of expression and engagement in documentary filmmaking, it combines theory, analysis, and direct experience with the work of international filmmakers.
Each session revolves around a key figure, examining their creative strategies and fostering debate with professionals and specialists, thus encouraging reflection and inspiration for personal projects with a unique and contemporary perspective.
The course, 100% online and synchronous, allows participation from anywhere, integrating audiovisual materials, preparatory readings, and live discussions, supported by UAB's virtual infrastructures that ensure a comprehensive learning experience.
The program is based on the idea that documentary authorship is a tool for thinking about the world beyond personal signature, and addresses topics such as gender, race, class, memory, decolonization, and formal experimentation, focusing on contemporary filmmakers often excluded from conventional circuits.
Taught by active filmmakers, programmers, and researchers, the course blends professional experience with critical insight, stimulating both analysis and personal positioning.
This training is an opportunity to deepen the practice and understanding of documentary authorship, ideal for future creative works, research, or educational projects, with a flexible and up-to-date format.
- Chris Marker: epistolarity and film essay
- Pierre Perrault, the civil servant who served
- Les Blank: with hands in the dough
- Danny Lyon: the margins of reality
- Sumiko Haneda: the attentive gaze
- Joaquim Jordà or how to overflow documentary
- Marilú Mallet: diaspora, authorship and first person
- Mani Kaul and the soul of clay in India's memory
- Subjective landscapes: Ulrike Ottingers film writing
- Marta Rodríguez: from participatory action to collective imagination
- For a clitoridian vaginal cinema. Practices and counter-aesthetics of feminist film collectives
- Modesty and spectacle in Ulrich Seidl
- Rehearsing the world: authorship, archive and manipulation in Adam Curtis
- Narrating from the wound: self-representation and found footage in Albertina Carri
- The echo of the invisible: sound as memory in the cinema of Tatiana Huezo and other women filmmakers
- Occupied time: Kamal Aljafari and intervened memory
- Making the invisible visible: the documentary short film and inherited memory
- Bodies, margins and gaze in the cinema of Alice Diop
- The real and the dreamed: Eduardo Williams' liminal gaze
- Spanish documentary cinema and authorship
- Closing session: AI and authorship
Specialized film writing and criticism: production of analytical texts and reviews for media outlets, specialized journals, or digital platforms, with a particular focus on documentary cinema and its languages.
Teaching in film and audiovisual studies: delivery of classes, workshops, and seminars in higher education settings, film schools, or cultural programs, related to documentary theory and practice.
Documentary directing and production: development of personal projects in the field of non-fiction cinema, taking on creative and production roles from initial conception to execution and dissemination.
Each session revolves around a key figure, examining their creative strategies and fostering debate with professionals and specialists, thus encouraging reflection and inspiration for personal projects with a unique and contemporary perspective.
The course, 100% online and synchronous, allows participation from anywhere, integrating audiovisual materials, preparatory readings, and live discussions, supported by UAB's virtual infrastructures that ensure a comprehensive learning experience.
The program is based on the idea that documentary authorship is a tool for thinking about the world beyond personal signature, and addresses topics such as gender, race, class, memory, decolonization, and formal experimentation, focusing on contemporary filmmakers often excluded from conventional circuits.
Taught by active filmmakers, programmers, and researchers, the course blends professional experience with critical insight, stimulating both analysis and personal positioning.
This training is an opportunity to deepen the practice and understanding of documentary authorship, ideal for future creative works, research, or educational projects, with a flexible and up-to-date format.
Contents
- Authorship and the voice of documentary- Chris Marker: epistolarity and film essay
- Pierre Perrault, the civil servant who served
- Les Blank: with hands in the dough
- Danny Lyon: the margins of reality
- Sumiko Haneda: the attentive gaze
- Joaquim Jordà or how to overflow documentary
- Marilú Mallet: diaspora, authorship and first person
- Mani Kaul and the soul of clay in India's memory
- Subjective landscapes: Ulrike Ottingers film writing
- Marta Rodríguez: from participatory action to collective imagination
- For a clitoridian vaginal cinema. Practices and counter-aesthetics of feminist film collectives
- Modesty and spectacle in Ulrich Seidl
- Rehearsing the world: authorship, archive and manipulation in Adam Curtis
- Narrating from the wound: self-representation and found footage in Albertina Carri
- The echo of the invisible: sound as memory in the cinema of Tatiana Huezo and other women filmmakers
- Occupied time: Kamal Aljafari and intervened memory
- Making the invisible visible: the documentary short film and inherited memory
- Bodies, margins and gaze in the cinema of Alice Diop
- The real and the dreamed: Eduardo Williams' liminal gaze
- Spanish documentary cinema and authorship
- Closing session: AI and authorship
Career opportunities
Research in documentary cinema: development of research projects focused on audiovisual non-fiction with the aim of generating knowledge and contributing to the publication of articles, books, or other academic and outreach formats. Specialized film writing and criticism: production of analytical texts and reviews for media outlets, specialized journals, or digital platforms, with a particular focus on documentary cinema and its languages.
Teaching in film and audiovisual studies: delivery of classes, workshops, and seminars in higher education settings, film schools, or cultural programs, related to documentary theory and practice.
Documentary directing and production: development of personal projects in the field of non-fiction cinema, taking on creative and production roles from initial conception to execution and dissemination.
Scholarships and financial aid
Chek all the information on the possibilities for grants and scholarships in the page for UAB financial aids, grants and calls.
Coordinating centres
Departamento de Comunicación Audiovisual y Publicidad
Contact
Jorge Tur Moltó
Phone: 931244885