Reading Groups
EFS Film School · Encounters
A text, read slowly and in common — so that reading becomes an instrument for thinking through cinema.
Reading at EFS Film School is a form of attention close to the one cinema asks of us. A reading group gathers a small circle around a text — in cinema, philosophy, literature, aesthetics, or artistic practice — and reads it slowly, patiently, and together, allowing it to open rather than to close.
These are not seminars in the academic sense, and they do not seek mastery over a text. They treat reading as a living practice: a way of letting ideas become active instruments for thinking through the moving image, and companions to one’s own work. Slow reading, shared reflection, and serious, unhurried discussion are their whole substance.
A text read slowly does not give us answers; it gives us a sharper way of seeing.
Particular reading groups, when they are formed, are announced through the News.
Beyond these gatherings, the school teaches in four forms — each a different distance to the same fire.