Universidad ORT Uruguay a Lecture on Cinema in Contemporary Culture

June 30, 2003
The ORT School of Communication and Design, in collaboration with the Uruguayan Association of Engineers, organized an event titled "The Role of Cinema in Contemporary Audiovisual Culture."

The conference took place on June 11 in the auditorium at the Downtown Campus.

The session was moderated by Eduardo Hipogrosso and led by Pablo Ferré, an instructor of Cinematic Language and Audiovisual Language in the Bachelor’s Program in Audiovisual Communication.

Prof. Ferré addressed various topics, such as:

  • established filmmakers over emerging directors;
  • old and new authors;
  • the new French wave of globalization;
  • new visual and audio technologies and their influence on contemporary film styles;
  • the phenomenon of Asian cinema.