短片《黑夜來臨》述說鄭宇勝－三民高中的王牌投手，正侃侃而談他得到勝利與小聯盟合約的喜悅，這讓他可以逃離充滿恐懼的生活。但其實勝利並不是屬於他的，生涯早已報銷的鄭宇勝，將自己投射在別人的勝利中，逃避現實的威脅，在這場設計成「記者採訪」的心理治療裡，鄭宇勝被迫在幻想中看到矛盾之處，道出一場夢靨與真實的自己，而這又是何其殘酷… 　　《黑夜來臨》以黑色電影手法，從選手心理的角度切入台灣棒球的教育問題，探究選手對其選手生命的心理過程，帶觀眾去經歷這樣的過程，藉由一個極端的遭遇，隱喻當代台灣每一個高中選手面對職涯選擇時，受全球選手交易與高中教育不見全的影想。 　　本創作論述報告包含創作動機、電影表現形式手法、相關心理學研究及高中棒球環境的田野調查報告，亦包含從前製、攝製期與後製期的工作紀錄，並說明本片在試映後的觀眾反應及修改方向。 / In psychiatrist's room, CHENG Yusheng, the ace pitcher from Shan Min Senior High School, was eloquently talking about the wining of the game and the joy of signing his minor league's contract. This is not only a childhood dream but, more important, an escape from a lifelong fear, his mother. But in reality, this victory never belongs to Cheng, his career has ended log time ago. He imagined a victory not his own in order to runaway from the threat of real world. In the process of psychotherapy, Cheng was forced to face the contradictions in his hallucination, and told the story of nightmare and truth. And soon the Darkness is a short film about a Taiwanese high school baseball player’s struggle. The film is produced by skills of film noir, and we look at this situation from the angle of sports psychology, focus on the moment when Taiwanese high school players face their future. The director’s report demonstrates the production background of the story, presents the perspective to make this film, and records the process of the production and screening.

" Dwelling at the Margins" is an exegesis of the short film Boundaries. Boundaries is a journey into the world of marginalised young people in inner urban Brisbane seen through the eyes of a the female main character with an eye for gentle beauty. The film forms the first part of the research and in the exegesis the ideas unfold that were behind the making of the film and that emerged further through its production and audience reception. The exegesis discussion centres on the major aspects of the film which are visual representations, female narratives and the themes of home and dwelling. Boundaries is a political film that looks from the edges of society. The exegesis seeks to explain the ideas behind this intention.

In this chapter, enacted possibilities for learning in a Scottish and a Swedish music lesson are analysed and compared with the intended learning outcomes as defined in the Swedish national curriculum. The Scotland-Lesson proves to place more emphasis on music's auditive aspects while the Sweden-Lesson focuses playing as individual manual skills.

Video-recorded music lessons (on multi angle DVDs) were used to inspire and improve understanding among experts from different cultures and discourses of music education. To make the process manageable and focused we developed the Analytical Short Film (2-3 minutes) to address particular areas of interest and starting points for debate. We asked selected music teachers from seven nation-states to allow a typical and (in their opinion) good lesson to be recorded. We also asked the students and their parents for permission. At a symposium, national experts and researchers presented views on „their“ lessons through Analytical Short Films. Discussion included implicit and explicit comparisons. The presenters also used a lesson from one of the other countries to stimulate discussion about assumptions in and challenges to their own views. We documented all comparisons made and compared these to derive cross cultural categories (tertia comparationis). These categories should be relevant for understanding what makes a music lesson „good“. The different perspectives and discussions offered by the authors in this book provide rich and diverse material for researchers, teachers and teacher educators.

[pt] Este trabalho discute a ascensão do cinema digital e o papel da curadoria na programação e seleção de curtas-metragens brasileiros contemporâneos em três festivais de cinema: Cine PE - Festival do Audiovisual, Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro e na Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes. O recorte temporal se dá entre os anos de 2017 e 2021 por conta do encontro entre uma progressiva popularização ao acesso dos sensores digitais e a imersão do Brasil em uma severa e polarizante crise político-social. O trabalho retoma e analisa a noção de aura, tal como proposta por Walter Benjamin em seu ensaio A obra de arte na era de sua reprodutibilidade técnica; retoma igualmente a ideia de programação e curadoria como formas de pós-produção, tal como proposta por Thomas Elsaesser. Um dos objetivos é analisar a mudança de cenário - favorecida pela entrada da tecnologia do digital - onde o curta-metragem brasileiro passa a ter um valor simbólico e cultural gradativamente mais significativo. Os três festivais de cinema, já citados, foram escolhidos porque suas curadorias ou condições de acontecimento sofreram grandes reviravoltas em função dos diferentes contextos político-sociais do país. Por fim, interessa discutir o papel da curadoria e dos festivais dentro do processo de legitimação histórica e artística de filmes assim como a relação entre os realizadores e a construção de um imaginário sobre o cinema nacional / [en] This study discusses the rise of digital cinema and the role of curatorship in the programming and selection of contemporary Brazilian short films in three film festivals: Cine PE - Festival do Audiovisual, Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro and Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes. The time frame takes place between the years 2017 and 2021 due to the encounter between a progressive popularization of access to digital sensors with the immersion of Brazil in a severe and polarizing political-social crisis. The study resumes and analyzes the notion of aura, as proposed by Walter Benjamin in his essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction; and it also takes up the idea of programming and curation as forms of post-production, as proposed by Thomas Elsaesser. One of the objectives is to analyze the change in scenario - favored by the entry of digital technology - where the Brazilian short film starts to have a gradually more significant symbolic and cultural value. The three aforementioned film festivals were chosen because their curatorship or event conditions underwent major upheavals due to the different political and social contexts in the country. Lastly, it is relevant for the study to discuss the role of curatorship and festivals within the process of historical and artistic legitimation of films as well as the relationship between filmmakers and the construction of an imaginary about national cinema.

The Chapter consists in two sections complementing Analytical Short Films. The first is about a supposedly universal atmosphere called RED in the Bavaria-Lesson, the second about different cultures in voice and posture coming together in the Beijing-Lesson. Both are related to theory as well as German philosophies of music education.