Left Bank

Left Bank is an active center dedicated to non-fiction cinema. Since 2018, it has officially pursued its activities in the field of non-fiction cinema with a focus on education, production, and filmmaking. Left Bank is a collective, self-governed, and non-affiliated cinematic entity that seeks—through the adoption of a council-based structure—to dismantle conventional modes of film production and vertical, hierarchical models of education. To date, Left Bank has produced and screened dozens of films in the field of non-fiction cinema, with a particular emphasis on documentary and experimental practices. Its educational and production workshops recruit participants annually through open calls for multi-month programs and engage in the continuous production of films, whose creative processes extend uninterrupted until their public screening. Among the core principles of Left Bank are the screening, retrieval, and rediscovery of marginalized and abandoned peaks of non-fiction cinema; a revolt against dominant and stabilized cinematic grammar; the elimination or reduction of delay as a defining condition of cinema; the revival of collective and reactive filmmaking; opposition to cinematic centralism; resistance to the hegemony of narrative cinema; the removal of hierarchies in both education and production; the redefinition of cinematic economics; and the creation of no-budget or low-budget works through lightweight tools and minimal means.