The Group

The Videomakers on line group in Dortmund consists mainly of Students of the Dortmund-University, who study Applied Literary and Cultural Studies in combination with Journalism.

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3 teams – 3 subjects

The Videomakers Dortmund consist of three teams, each dealing with different subjects for the video-production for the website flashvideo.org. In terms of the required themes “lifestyle” and “multi-culture”, the main subjects are:

1. the gamer community
2. DJs and music
3. Dortmund as a social and cultural melting pot


Interrelations
"blind spots", "forbidden areas", "sub-cultures",...

The group decided to have a kind of thread, or rather a common base, which all their videos shall deal with, so that the videos are not isolated from each other but become interrelated. The idea of what they all have in common is to focus on the social and cultural “blind spots”: forbidden areas – public as well as pprivate spaces -, youth sub-culture, mechanisms of social exclusion and taboos, which are touched by dealing with different cultures and Nationalities.

Content

The first video deals with the gamer community and was produced within the scope of the exhibition games. Computer games by artists. During the exhibition, a LAN party was organised and some of the videomakers made interviews with gamers and normal exhibition visitors.

The second topic, DJs and music, will deal with the lively music scene in Dortmund. In Dortmund you find a quite big scene of rock and pop musicians as well as the whole field of electronic music. The video will focus on Dortmund’s music-culture and the different ethnic groups involved. It will question, what kind of music the different DJ communities are into, which cultural roots they have or adopt and which music styles they prefer.

The third video, Dortmund as a social and cultural melting pot, will follow three Kids of different districts and/or nationalities, for example one from a district, which is mainly populated by Russians or Turkish immigrants, one from the district around the University, where most of the foreign students live and one from a typical German middle-class district. The video will document their daily lives and analyse the different ways, in which young people make use of the social and cultural infrastructure and institutions the districts offer to them.

Links

Videomakers Rotterdam
http://www.beeldfabriek.org/videomakers/

do1 tv
http://www.do1-tv.de/do1tv.htm

Universität Dortmund
http://www.uni-dortmund.de

Offener Kanal Dortmund
http://www.ok-dortmund.de

Dortmund Site
http://www.dortmund.de