Drawing on my work as a film critic and researcher, I offer workshops, lectures, presentations and Q&As that bring together contextual understanding and critical engagement.
* Young Critics workshop
Fantômas at MOOOV Film Festival
-> 2022-…
A week-long film criticism boot camp. [read some of the results here]
* Guest lecture on film criticism
Master of Film Studies and Visual Culture, University of Antwerp; Master of Theatre and Film Studies, University of Antwerp
-> 2022-…
Placing film criticism into context (media landscape, methodologies…), paired with a group peer-review session
* Film introductions and Q&As
For a variety of organisations and venues, such as Fantômas, De Cinema (Antwerp), M HKA, Lumière (Antwerp, Mechelen, Bruges), MOOOV, Film Fest Gent, KASKcinema, Acteur.be, Willemsfonds, Filmmagie, Cartoon’s, Cinéma Galeries, Palace, Pelliculot…
-> 2016-…
* Lecture ‘Genealogies of the documentary gaze’
Part of the Erasmus Blended Intensive Programme course ‘New Territories of Visual Arts’, Université Bourgogne Europe
-> 2026
A two-part lecture on the basic history of documentary cinema, and strategies to counter this historiography
* Lecture on Häxan (Benjamin Christensen, 1922)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literature, University of Antwerp
-> 2023, 2024
A deep dive into the documentary and essayistic strategies of Häxan
* Guest lecture ‘Visual Criticism: Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism’
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literature, University of Antwerp
-> 2023
A collaborative reflection on Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities (1983) and Anthony D. Smith’s ‘Images of the Nation. Cinema, art and national identity’ (2000)
Agenda
Young Critics workshop
Each April, the film magazine Fantômas hosts a Dutch-language film criticism workshop at the MOOOV Film Festival in Bruges. For those keen to join the conversation, keep an eye on the Fantômas newsletter and social media channels for the next call for applications.
Bjorn Gabriels, film critic & researcher 