Film education with Le Cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse project

Christian will talk about the renowned film education program Le Cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse (CCAJ) that  will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2025. Founded in 1995 on the 100th anniversary of cinema in France by Nathalie Bourgeois and Alain Bergala, it has grown steadily and now encompasses a network of cinematheques and film initiatives, filmmakers and film professionals, educators and teachers in 15 countries across four continents. With annually changing aesthetic questions („questions of cinema“) and a very special educational approach, more than 1,600 short films have been created in the three decades of the program's existence. They were made by young people – accompanied by filmmakers and teachers – as a result of a whole year of intensive engagement with "film as art." This is also the German title of the film education classic by Alain Bergala: The Cinema Hypothesis - Teaching Cinema in the Classroom and Beyond. The IGS Herder in cooperation with the DFF in Frankfurt am Main is now in its fifth year participating in this particular program.

Christian Dirksen

Christian studied art education, history, and social studies for teaching in Frankfurt am Main. He has been working for 20 years at IGS Herder in Frankfurt am Main, a cultural school of the state of Hessen. There, he is engaged in various aspects of film education: in a four-hour practical film day, the youth film jury group, the short film break group, as well as in subject lessons. For the past five years, he has participated with the practical film day in the renowned international film education program Le cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse (CCAJ). At the school, he coordinates the cooperation with the German Film Institute & Film Museum (DFF).