1. Narrative structure (1st turning point, 2st turning point, conflict, exposition of main char + background queer + diy: dev smth new, support w existing mdls of myth&storytelling, metamorphosis of the hero) 2. char building 3. going deeper into
transgression:
queer aesthetics – creative power of chaos, transgressing already existing models/programs what’s the differenece between exing programmed and transgressed model? karakteri ID, creating other chars how to develop experiences into chars, creating IDs
what kind of love story is the best for our subject?
2. Concept
apply / to explore: letting go of ownership, jealousy; understanding more complicated social structures; eliminating or widening categories)
Polyamory as a possibility of transgression, from old system to new. (Emotions / social situations that
Themes
affectconceptpercept in art).
Technical device: Polyamory as a nonlinear model of narrative in film. Situations, dialogue
Polyamory Love story as model for developing nonlinear narrative structure
3. empathy, social and personal enlightenment, perfect verbal communication, perfect nonverbal
communication, the struggle of letting go of jealousy, different sexualities etc
polyamory (in contrast to fir ex. polygamy) is not a (or not only) social model of relations, but a much more
complicated fusion of practices: from corporal/sexual, through linguistic to political, but always with affect as
a major theme. That's why I think it's so interesting for film workshops (question: how to transform
keeping it a bit narrower than just "queer experience", but still including variations on human communication in the term,
The Polyamorous Experience: Film Script Writing Workshop
In writing this sort of script multiple and hybrid identities can be a point of departure for character building
and creating relations between characters in the film
Intimate and personal experience would be a ground for queer experience encoded later in the script. This
work involves analysis of structural elements of the story: characters as well as actions.
Searching for visual form which is the most interesting for pictorial space in the queer movie making, we
will consider this problem at the very primal stage of script writing
From concept to scenario: creative process and working with singularity, collecting and crystalizing the
materials for the script
Imagining the space: ...
I would like to keep the exercises and practices of the workshop itself quite simple to not overwhelm the
participants with theory. So hopefully we can derivate these ideas into simple tasks & questions. But these
details don't have to be in the concept, we can work on them later.
Queer dialogs: ...is about different voices that the writer has to hear when creating this kind of script. (this
is also a matter of transgression, but in this case transgressing one's identity phantasms. Anyway, we'll see
how this concepts work in practice during the workshop. And first in the scenario of the workshops we want
to design.)
