Friday, 22 March 2019 at 10:00 am – Friday, 22 March 2019 at 11:00 am

French Cinema Seminar

Date: Friday 22nd March 2019

Time: 10am - 11am

Location: GM225, Geoffrey Manton Building

Tickets: Free - All welcome! Just turn up!

A Talk by French Filmmaker Yannik Ruault

To be or not to be an independent filmmaker, followed by an introduction to “organic motion”

Yannik Ruault will share aspects of his personal experience of filmmaking in France discussing his first short film shown in the Festival de Cannes (Short Film Corner) and his first feature film Abrahadabra, (French Film Festival UK Discovery 2017 www.abrahadabra-film.com).

He will discuss independent film production in France and will introduce the original technique of "Organic Motion" experimented in his films. The talk, delivered in English, will be illustrated with films extracts and will be followed by a Q and A in English or in French. The film will be screened at the Alliance française de Manchester, at 6.30.

Film, Languages and Media in Education (FLAME) is a pioneering research group at Manchester Metropolitan University established in 2013 and dedicated to the development of research and knowledge exchange activity in the areas of Pedagogy, Languages, Film and Media. Each member of the FLAME Research Group is committed to progressing language pedagogy by carrying out active research into multimodal approaches to teaching and effective use of films, media, visual literacies and audio-visual material in the classroom. Research demonstrates how such approaches are beneficial to both learner and teacher and should be integrated into language teaching curriculum and educational contexts around the world.