Food for Thought
In FOOD FOR THOUGHT, we will compare the process of cooking and the process of filmmaking. We will watch a lot of different films and discuss different approaches and film languages the filmmakers used to inspire, challenge, “edutain” human beings about subject of food in all its forms. Students will work in groups and will attempt to create short films and trailers using different filmmaking approaches. They may choose to conduct a video investigation at their own school cafeteria, or come up with an avant-garde cooking show, devise a fictional tale about children stuck on a deserted island in New England, or trace a journey of a plastic cup using found footage…
Alla Kovgan
Filmmaker
Alla Kovgan is a Boston-based filmmaker, born in Moscow (Russia). Her films and films that she co-directed have been presented worldwide including at the Sundance, Rotterdam, Toronto, Oberhausen, Clemont-Ferrand, MOMA, Louvre, Tate Modern, and numerous others. Alla’s film NORA (2008) – her collaboration with a British filmmaker David Hinton and a Zimbabwe-born choreographer Nora Chipaumire, has been presented at over 100 festivals. It was selected to represent the US at INPUT 2011. It received 30 awards and was broadcast on ARTE/ZDF, PBS, LINK TV, Spanish and Norwegian TV. Within the last five years, Alla co-directed, wrote and edited two documentary-features an Emmy-nominated TRACES OF THE TRADE (2007) and MOVEMENT REVOLUTION AFRICA (2008). She also edited MY PERESTROIKA (2010), which premiered at Sundance and was broadcast on PBS. Since 1999, Alla has been a member of the KINODANCE Company, an interdisciplinary artist collaborative, which creates intermedia performances and installations. KINODANCE’s work has been supported by the Bank of America Celebrity Series, ICA (Boston), New England Foundation for the Arts and others. In 2008, KINODANCE was selected as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 To Watch”. Alla received many awards including a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship (2009) and Brother Thomas Fellowship (2009) for artists working at a high level of excellence and creativity.