A 3-hour interactive workshop to develop creative ideas. Participate in a series of embodied exercises designed to catalyze concepts, images, sounds, movement motifs, structures, and rhythms for new screen dance works. Excerpts and examples of key cinematic moments from films directed and edited by Shirley Clarke will be jumping off points for exploring ideas in motion and editing as a generative art. Workshop leader Karen Pearlman will bring core principles from her recent books – 'Cutting Rhythms: Creative Film Editing' and 'Shirley Clarke: Thinking Through Movement’ – to life in a workshop designed to enhance and empower kineasthetic creativity. (space is limited)
Spots are extremely limited.
Deadline to Sign-up January 15th.
Karen Pearlman Associate Professor (Macquarie University), Pearlman writes, directs. and edits screen productions. She researches creative practice, distributed cognition and feminist film histories. Karen’s short films about historical women editors (2016, 2018 & 2020) have won 34 competitive national and international awards from peak industry bodies and film festivals. Her film ‘Breaking Plates’ was awarded ‘Best Short Documentary’ at the 2025 Antenna International Film Festival for “... a playful invitation to consider very serious questions of feminism and voice, as well as dynamics of structure and agency” (Jury Citation). Karen was accredited by the Australian Screen Editors (ASE) Guild in 2024. A 5-time ASE Best Editing Award nominee, and 2 time winner, Karen is the author of Cutting Rhythms, Creative Film Editing, which is now in its third edition and has translations into Chinese, Korean, Turkish, and Arabic. She is also the author of the monograph Shirley Clarke Thinking through Movement (EUP 2025). Karen is the director, with Richard James Allen, of The Physical TV Company, whose documentary, drama, and dance films have been broadcast on ABC and SBS-TV, screened at more than 500 film festivals on six continents, garnering well over 100 awards or nominations, and added to the collections of 10 major film archives around the world.