INPUT / … / … / Visual Storytelling How to sharpen the visual aspects of our stories

These content creators found inspiration and at times beauty in surprising places. We will discuss programs with an eye for showing, rather than the telling. In this session we will explore how visual choices can provide the space for the audience to draw their own conclusions. How do these visual choices represent or misrepresent reality? Add poetic resonance? How do the directors, cinematographers, and editors work together to find the hidden moments to move the narrative forward? What are the challenges of cutting back on narration? How did Mexican and Indian public television stations work together with well-known ‘auteurs’ to do visual collaborations? In this session we will meet a burlesque dancer in Mexico City challenging her audience, Japanese detectives using a surprising technique to capture fugitives, South korean high school students finding their pocket of joy in a rapidly changing shipbuilding community, and workers engaged in the production (creation) and the destruction (explosion) of fireworks in 1ndia. Whether the protagonists are filmed enjoying their passions or working hard to put food on the table, these programs show the beauty, poetry, and dignity of the human touch. A time to reconnect with the power of visual storytelling.