Study

Black-and-white film still — ways to study at EFS Film School

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Study

To study at EFS Film School is to enter a practice, not a programme.

Cinema here is learned as it is made: slowly, inwardly, by attention. The teaching takes several forms, each suited to a different rhythm of life, practice, and commitment. Each is a different distance to the same fire — choose the one your life allows; the work itself does not change.

Choose your way in
Alone · at your own pace

Self-Paced Courses

Recorded courses to enter at any hour and keep without end — studied independently, in your own order, and returned to for as long as their questions stay alive. The descent, taken alone.
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In real time · in company

Live Online Courses

Taught live to a small cohort gathered from anywhere in the world — the séance conducted together, in real time. The same descent, witnessed.
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In person · in a single city

Onsite Masterclasses

Held in person over consecutive days, when the moment is right — films watched together in the dark, and, by the end, a work made in common.
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One to one · by arrangement

Mentoring

A sustained, bespoke accompaniment to an artist’s own work — its method, its difficulties, and its unresolved questions. Offered by arrangement, in limited number.
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However you enter, the work is the same.

These four paths are not separate products but a single practice approached at different speeds and in different company — alone or together, in your own time or in real time, at a distance or in the same room. What changes is the rhythm and the company; the cinema does not. Each path is a way of cultivating a personal, poetic, and experimental cinema, and of learning to make the films that only you can make.

The Companion Films

Three films accompany every course at EFS Film School — Phantom Islands, Trailers, and Homo Sapiens Project (200). They are given to each student on enrolment: personal download links, yours to keep, watched in your own time. They are not illustrations of the teaching; they are its evidence. The ideas met in these courses were first worked out inside these films, and lead back to them.

If you are uncertain which path is yours, write to us, and we will help you find the way in that suits your life and your work.

For universities, festivals, and cultural organisations — commissioned workshops, lectures, and programmes: For Institutions →

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