Manifesto
DIP is an international training program that questions the familiar ways of thinking about, learning and making cinema. It was created in the middle of the pandemic, with the idea of making dialogue possible and bringing about an encounter between artists from different parts of the world in a bleak, dystopian context.

The pandemic ended, but DIP had to go on, because the world keeps getting more confusing. Because we believe it is necessary for us artists to come together to research, experiment and think collectively. In the virtual we discovered a bridge that connects people who could not otherwise meet.

For DIP, cinema is a means to investigate the complexity of people and their relationships. We believe in a cinema that needs no resources or technical tools. We prioritize the process of filmmaking —as a human, social and enriching experience— over the result. We believe that the best way to learn is by doing and by making mistakes. We believe that as artists we bear a responsibility for the images and languages we create and for the ideas we represent and reproduce.

The artists and guests who make up the DIP community live in a permanent state of personal, artistic and political questioning. We are interested in artists who take nothing for granted, who question the norms and conventions of the systems of power that oppress us. We value process and artistic research, convinced that art is a space of resistance at a time when the world seems to be falling apart. We think of DIP as a contribution to the world: a place to share processes drawn from diverse experiences. A virtual utopia of audiovisual resistance.

Program Structure
The group's yearly journey is organized in two stages. In the first stage, the aim is to give participants a series of resources and devices that serve as exercises for inspiration —a kind of toolbox— so they can develop their own strategies for researching the real. Based on open prompts, participants will make a series of audiovisual exercises in which they will rehearse their own devices for staging intimacy. An intensive space for experimentation. An invitation to become aware of the layers of fiction that surround us in everyday life, and to approach them with curiosity and a critical eye.

During the sessions, the work produced will be screened as a starting point for analyzing the problems involved in representing intimacy, and from there to discuss ethical, conceptual and aesthetic positions, and their potential.

The second stage will be a space for collective exchange around a project or idea that each participant is working on or wants to begin researching audiovisually. The aim is for participants to find a framework of work and inspiration in which to set their ideas in motion and turn them into audiovisual material. The group will function as a critical and supportive network, making room for each participant's artistic and personal process to deepen.

In this stage, we will work with a system of tests, attempts and exercises designed specifically for each project, to strengthen each person's own process and to connect with the power of our mistakes. In each weekly session, the audiovisual tests each participant has produced individually are screened and then opened up to the group for collective analysis and exchange.

The goal of DIP is not the production of a finished work or a successful result, but a conscious journey through the different stages of research.

Since 2026, DIP has added the RESIDENCY AT THE BORDER to its yearly program. In October 2027, the artists who have worked online throughout the year meet in person in Misiones, on the border between Argentina and Brazil, for an immersive experience in dialogue with the border and its people. Over a week of working and living together, they will collectively put into practice the toolbox created during the program, shooting short documentaries in collaboration with the people who live along the border.

In addition, every month the group's journey is interrupted by a practical workshop led by a spAcial guest, who shares their own tools and devices with the group and proposes exercises for inspiration during an intimate session.

Some of the spAcial guests who have taken part in DIP are: Lucrecia Martel, Joao Pedro Rodrigues, Karim Ainouz, Leila Guerriero, Maite Alberdi, Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Albertina Carri, Maruja Bustamante, Petra Costa, Inés Efrón, Marina Otero, Vivi Tellas, Brigitte Vasallo and Marlene Wayar.

The program ends with an online screening of the participants' work.