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Survey on teaching experiences in cinematography

• Peter C. Slansky

  Peter C. Slansky studied engineering at the University of Duisburg 1982–1984 and photoengineering at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne 1985–1991, with the main subject Film and Television Production. Between 1988 and 1999, he realised 60 corporate and image films as a cinematographer, author, director and/or producer. From 1992 to 1995, he studied Film/Television at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne as postgraduate; 1992–1999, he was a freelancer lecturer for cinematography, camera technology and editing; 1996–1998, he was a visiting lecturer at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, Department of Media Arts/Film; and 1998–1999, he was a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Photoengineering at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne. Since 1999, he is the executive professor of Film and Television Technology at the University of Television and Film (HFF), Munich. Between 1999 and 2014, he was also executive coordinator for the new building of the University of Television and Film Munich in the center of the Munich Arts Quarter. In 2007, he became the founding director of the Centre for Advanced Studies of Film Technology of the HFF. He received a PhD degree in 2013 from the Faculty of Architecture of the Bauhaus–University Weimar with his thesis: ‘The Part of the User in University Building Processes.’ Since 2013, he is the Dean of Studies at the HFF Munich.

  and Katrin Richthofer

  Katrin Richthofer studied Film and Media at the University of Stirling, Scotland, from 1989 to 1990, and Documentary Film at the University of Television and Film (HFF), Munich, from 1990 to 1997. Since 1991, she is a freelancer in Film and Television Production for the Film Festival Munich, the International Festival of Film Schools, with a focus on multimedia. From 1994 to 1995, she absolved a postgraduate studies in directing at the Northern School for Film and Television, Leeds/UK. Since 1997, she is a freelance director and cinematographer (BR, ZDF, Pro Sieben, SWR, SRF). From 1998 until today, she teaches as a visiting lecturer at the HFF Munich, Department II Technology and Department IV Documentary Film and Television Journalism. From 1997 to 2006, she was a contract teacher at the Camera Department of the HFF Munich. Since 2007, she is the founding manager of the Centre for Advanced Studies of Film Technology at the HFF, and since 2017, she is also the manager of the conference and training program of IMAGO.