Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Campus Magazin 21/22

home institutions. All the films were shot in FABW’s
Studio 1 (now renamed as “Jochen Kuhn Studio”), under
the strict eyes of specially trained hygiene officers.
Despite the high level of control and the stressful situation,
ICLA members handled the restrictions with great
professionalism and discipline, yet watching them work
made it very clear that a film set during the pandemic is
a far cry from the joyful intimacy and enthusiasm one
would expect from a student film production. Making
it happen, though, was a major effort, both for the students
and for FABW’s staff who worked numerous extra
hours to make this happen. Even though none of the
films explicitly dealt with the Corona Pandemic: in the
years to come, these films will very likely be watched
with a different eye, as comments on our time of isolation,
great disruption and insecurity.
ICLA 2.0: NETWORKING IS KEY
While isolation, disruption and insecurity might be appropriate
terms to describe last year’s general mood, we
cannot allow these forces to dominate our minds, nor
the way we work, nor the perspectives we are opening
up to our students. Therefore, in the academic year
of 2021/2022, we are making a number of significant
changes to the concept and timeline of ICLA, moving
from the fall to the spring term, in order to allow the
students to participate in the vivid campus life in summer,
instead of the sometimes unsociable German winter.
Also, the objective of the class is shifting, from the production
of short films as in previous editions, towards
collaborative international project development within
a larger scope. ICLA 2.0’s multicultural environment is
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