Fagområde
Filmregi

Avhandlingens arbeidstittel
"Being the Director" - Maintaining your Artistic Vision While Swimming with Sharks

Problemstilling/sammendrag
How can a film director maintain and nourish a personal, artistic vision in such a collaborative and highly commercial art form?

The plan is to document and discuss my own work and role as director during the next three years - on video, in autoethographic fashion, much of it as a video-diary/confessionals/vlog. This will be the core of Being the Director.

I will also interview leading, international directors that have managed to build a career by leaving an undeniable, personal, artistic imprint on a body of films. I will choose directors from a variety of continents, countries and hence, production environments. Through personal interviews I hope to extract and formulate possible definitions of what a personal, artistic vision actually is; and, more important, possible strategies on how to implement and keep this vision through the whole production process.

It will be a kind of discussion where my ongoing experiences will face the sum of (some of) theirs. I hope to find answers that will contain at least a core of universal truth or interest. And there will also be discussions on methodology and how to focus - on what questions to ask, where in the film making process the most important decisions are made.

Doktorgradsinstitusjon, veileder, stipendperiode
Diesen er ansatt som stipendiat ved Den norske filmskolen, Høgskolen i Lillehammer. Stipendperioden er finansiert av Stipendprogrammet for kunstnerisk utviklingsarbeid. Det finnes ikke formaliserte utdanningsprogram for kunstnerisk utviklingsarbeid på doktorgradsnivå innenfor Diesens felt. Den norske filmskolen ved Høgskolen i Lillehammer har imidlertid ansvaret Diesens utdanningsløp og sluttbedømmelse.

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Hovedveileder: professor Suzanne Osten fra Dramatiska Institutet i Stockholm

Biveileder: filmklipper/regissør Anders Refn og associate professor Thomas Abrams fra University of Southern California

Faglig kontakt Den norske filmskolen Høgskolen i Lillehammer er professor Leidulv Risan, linjeleder manus ved Den norske filmskolen.

Trygve Allister Diesen er ansatt ved Høgskolen i Lillehammer som kunststipendiat i perioden 1. oktober 2005 til 10. september 2008.