CPH:DOX welcomes students from film schools, art academies and universities all over the world to take part in DOX:ACADEMY+ Classes. On top of your DOX:ACADEMY accreditation, you can decide to apply for DOX:ACADEMY+ Classes.
The DOX:ACADEMY+ Classes are a line of highly intensive courses taking place in Copenhagen for 5 full days during the festival with guest sessions, group discussions, and a tailored programme of films and festival activities, and more.
PRACTICAL INFO & ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
- Joining DOX:ACADEMY is both easy and affordable. We welcome individual students as well as larger groups, classes or schools from all over the world.
- Accreditations are restricted to students at higher educational institutions such as universities, film schools and art academies.
- Recent graduates or students on sabbatical leave may be taken into consideration.
When applying for DOX:ACADEMY Accreditation, you can decide to apply for a DOX:ACADEMY+ Classes to take part in one of our intensive one-week DOX:ACADEMY+ Classes that will take place for 5 full days in Copenhagen during the festival from March 24-28, 2025.
Alternatively, you can form your own path through the festival with a DOX:ACADEMY Accreditation that gives you the same access, but without the tailored classes. If you do not get a spot in one of the DOX:ACADEMY+ classes, you will still receive a DOX:ACADEMY accreditation.
HOW TO APPLY?
The DOX:ACADEMY is priced 800 DKK + 25% VAT (1.000 DKK).
- ACADEMY Accreditation
- Accreditation open: October, 2024
- Deadline to apply: March 1, 2025
- The DOX:ACADEMY accreditation application is unlimited and does not require a letter of motivation
- ACADEMY+ Classes
- Open for registration: October, 2024
- Deadline to apply: February 1, 2025. After this date the three DOX:ACADEMY+ classes will not accept more applications
- DOX:ACADEMY+ Classes have a limited capacity and a motivated application is required
- If you do not get a spot in one of the DOX:ACADEMY+ classes, you will still receive a DOX:ACADEMY accreditation.
For more information on all of our different accreditations, see here.
For group discounts and questions give us a shout at academy@cphdox.dk
ABOUT DOX:ACADEMY+ Classes
All of our DOX:ACADEMY+ classes explore the intersection between theory and practice and bring together students, teachers, experts and artists from different professional backgrounds to form new creative and cross-disciplinary networks. We value diversity and welcome all applicants – regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, disability (If you have any special accessibility needs, please let us know in the application how we can accommodate you), sexual orientation or gender identity. Each class is assembled of approximately 25 students with different backgrounds.
- ART: HYBRID CLASS examines the field between art, film and academic research, especially anthropology. The class will focus on the experimental form of documentary as an artistic practice that tests the boundaries of filmic expressions. Sign up for this ambitious and creative course if you want to meet, discuss and explore the intersection between documentary and fiction, experiment and reality, and new emerging art forms!
- SOCIETY: F:ACT CLASS is dedicated to the field between investigative journalism, political activism and expressive documentary genres. The class is a forum for documentarists and journalists to meet, inspire and challenge each other in the collective examination of social impact through documentary media. Join the class if you want to see or change the world through a camera lens!
- SCIENCE: NATURE CLASS explores the intersection between science, nature, and cinema, delving into how complex knowledge, new ecologies, and the urgencies of climate change can be transformed into compelling moving images. When filmmakers collaborate with environmental activists, scientists, and indigenous peoples, any kind of cinema can become aesthetically vibrant and politically acute. In this course, you will witness how a diverse range of phenomena related to science and nature can be transformed into thought-provoking and genre-bending documentaries. Join us in exploring cinema in the more-than-human life worlds!
Each DOX:ACADEMY+ class is hosted by a professional moderator from the three different disciplines, and is composed of a curated programme, guest sessions and extended discussions arranged exclusively for the participants. These will be weaved together with screenings and conferences from the CPH:DOX festival programme. In order to create a concentrated learning atmosphere based on exchange and engagement, students apply with motivated applications.
Please see below the selection of professional moderator at DOX:ACADEMY 2024:
ART: HYBRID I
Tinne Zenner is a visual artist, filmmaker and programmer based in Copenhagen. She holds an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2016). Her films Sleeping District (2014), Arrábida (2017), Nutsigassat (2018) and Honeycomb Image/Archive Cladding (with Eva la Cour, 2022) have been shown at a number of international film festivals including New York Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Curtas Vila do Conde, Courtisane, Oberhausen, EMAF, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin and Image Forum Tokyo, and her installation work exhibited at museums and galleries internationally. Zenner is a member of Terrassen, a roving cinema in Copenhagen engaging with the social life of film, and is a co-founder and member of Sharna Pax, a film collective based in London/Copenhagen working between the fields of anthropology, documentary and visual arts. She is the main coordinator of the DOX:ACADEMY programme and works as a film programmer for EMAF – European Media Arts Festival. Most recently, she presented her research project and solo exhibition (Im)material Extraction at Vermilion Sands in Copenhagen.
ART: HYBRID II
Therese Henningsen is a filmmaker and programmer. Her filmmaking often takes shape through the encounter with the person(s) filmed and the direction this takes. Her films include After Time (2023), Slow Delay (2018), Baby Jesus and Maintenancer (2023 and 2018, with Sidsel Meineche Hansen). In collaboration with Juliette Joffé, she has co-edited the interdisciplinary anthology Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter, published by Prototype in 2022. She is a member of Terrassen, a roving cinema in Copenhagen engaging with the social life of film, and is a co-founder of Sharna Pax, a film collective based in London/Copenhagen working between the fields of documentary, anthropology and visual arts. She is a mentor on MA Docfiction at UCL and on MA Performance: Screen at Central Saint Martins, and runs the Open City Docs short course Documentary as Encounter. She is working on a practice-led PhD in Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London.
SOCIETY: F:ACT
Nagieb Khaja is an internationally recognized and award-winning journalist and documentary director, whose films and reports have appeared on the BBC, Al Jazeera English, Vice International and the Guardian. In 2022, together with colleagues at Ekstra Bladet, he won the Cavling prize for the article series Mettes uønskede børn (Mette's unwanted children). Most recently, his and Martin Tamm Andersen’s film Bedraget i Helmand (My Enemy's Enemy) was nominated for a Cavling Award. He has covered the conflicts in Syria and Afghanistan for many years, but currently his focus is on Israel and Palestine. Nagieb Khaja is also a teacher on The National Film School of Denmark's Documentary programme.
SCIENCE: NATURE
Jeppe Sengupta Carstensen is an editor, human ecologist and researcher based in Copenhagen, Svendborg, and Berlin. He applies his practice across disciplines and often in collaboration with visual artists, writers, activists, and scientists. Sengupta Carstensen founded and served as editor-in-chief on all issues of Ny Jord – Tidsskrift for naturkritik (2015-2020), was a contributing editor in the film journal Krystalbilleder - Tidsskrift for filmkritik (2013-2016), and recently, he edited the reader Critical Coast (2023) for the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, published by the Danish Architectural Press. He contributes occasionally to newspapers and magazines as a writer and serves as a guest lecturer at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, the Royal Danish Academy of Design and Architecture, and various other institutions in Denmark and abroad. He is also a co-founding member of Terrassen, a roving cinema in Copenhagen engaging with the social life of film. Sengupta Carstensen holds an MA in Human Ecology and Comparative Literature and previously worked as a programmer at CPH:DOX. His interdisciplinary practice in art, documentary, and science is primarily oriented towards moving images and printed matter in relation to the environmental crisis and the conservation of biological diversity.