Events are an integral part of the master programs: from workshops with guests professors to lectures series with relevant practitioners.
past events
Tue, Apr 7, 2026
Cine Club Talks
Alejo Levis
Thinking, writing, directing
Open to all Masters’ students
This masterclass approaches the creative process from a cross-disciplinary perspective, exploring the relationships between screenwriting, directing, and staging. Drawing on his experience in film, theater, and television, Alejo Levis reflects on how to construct narratives, develop a unique vision, and translate ideas into audiovisual works with identity and coherence.
Alejo Levis is a screenwriter, director, and playwright trained in Fine Arts and at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona. He has worked across film, theater, and television, directing projects such as Todo parecía perfecto and No quiero perderte nunca.
Wed, Mar 18, 2026
Masters’ Talks
7.30 pm — Event at DHub
Open to the public
Kathy Ryan
Backstories
Backstories
Kathy Ryan will choose a handful of photographs that stand out in her mind from the pages of The New York Times Magazine during the 39 years she worked there. She will share the backstory for each picture to give insight into how that image came into being. The photographs will cover a wide range of subject matter including international news, lifestyle stories, and culture coverage.
© Inez and Vinoodh
Ryan will also show and talk about some of the photographs from her Office Romance series that she made during the last decade she worked at The NYTMAG. They are a love poem to her colleagues and a celebration of the radiant light in the Renzo Piano-designed New York Times building.
The longtime director of photography at The New York Times Magazine, Kathy Ryan has been a pioneer of combining fine art photography with photojournalism. She has worked with the world’s best photographers across all genres of photography. She regularly brought new talent into The Magazine’s pages. She left The Times after 39 years to focus on her own artwork, curating exhibitions, teaching a course at Yale, and speaking engagements.
In 2011, Ryan edited The New York Times Magazine Photographs, a landmark book published by Aperture. An accompanying exhibition, curated by Ryan and Lesley Martin opened at the Rencontres d’Arles in 2012, traveled to FOAM Museum in Amsterdam, Palau Robert in Barcelona, Universidad Católica in Santiago and ended its run at the Aperture Gallery in New York City.
Ryan has contributed essays and Q&A’s to books by photographers Lee Friedlander, Christopher Payne, Seydou Keïta, Paolo Pellegrin, Lynsey Addario, Jack Davison and Brian Finke. She was the picture editor of Feeling the Spirit by Chester Higgins.
The Magazine‘s photography and videos have been recognized with numerous awards. Ryan was awarded the Dr. Erich Salomon Prize from the German Photographic Society in September 2025. Ryan was a recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Griffin Museum of Photography in 2007; the Royal Photographic Society’s annual award for Outstanding Service to Photography in 2012; the Vision Award at the Center for Photography at Woodstock in 2014; and the Outstanding Contribution to Photography recognition from Creative Review in 2016. Ryan has been recognized as Photo Editor of the Year by the Lucie Awards and Visa Pour l’Image. Ryan won two Emmy’s for videos she produced for The New York Times Magazine’s Great Performers series. Kathy was the International Center of Photography’s Spotlight honoree in 2024.
Office Romance, a book of Ryan’s photographs featuring her colleagues and the beauty and poetry to be found in the radiant light in the New York Times building was published by Aperture in 2014. This work has been exhibited in Europe and the U.S. All of Ryan’s photography is done with the iPhone.
Tue, Mar 10, 2026
Cine Club Talks
Pol González, White Horse
Gallery Sessions: Producing Live Music for the Screen
Open to all Master’s students
Connected to the music video project, this masterclass focuses on Gallery Sessions, a project developed by the production company Whitehorse. Pol González breaks down its creative and production approach, exploring how live music formats can be translated into strong audiovisual experiences.
Pol González is a creative director and audiovisual producer specialized in music-related content. He combines strategic thinking with a deep understanding of format, audience and digital platforms.
Tue, Mar 10, 2026
Cine Club Talks
Belén Gayán, Agosto
Advertising as Narrative: A Different Perspective on Audiovisual Creation
Open to all Master’s students
This masterclass approaches audiovisual creation from an advertising perspective, offering a complementary viewpoint to the music video project. Through a selection of campaigns developed at the production company Agosto, Belén Gayán reflects on concept, storytelling and visual language within commercial contexts, and on how advertising can provide valuable tools and insights for narrative efficiency and creative clarity.
Belén Gayán is a director and co-founder of the production company Agosto. Her work is focused exclusively on advertising, developing campaigns characterized by strong concepts, refined visual language and a clear narrative intention.
Tue, Feb 24, 2026
Cine Club Talks
Pablo Maestres
Music Video as Experimentation: Language and Form
Open to all Master’s students
Linked to the music video project, this masterclass revisits Pablo Maestres’ most relevant works in this field. The session explores the music video as a space for experimentation, where concept, rhythm and visual language converge to create expressive and unconventional audiovisual narratives.
Pablo Maestres is an artist, filmmaker and researcher whose practice moves between audiovisual creation, experimental cinema and music-related projects, questioning narrative conventions and exploring new forms of visual expression.
Tue, Feb 24, 2026
Cine Club Talks
Salvador Sunyer
Directing Music Videos: Concept, Rhythm and Narrative
Open to all Master’s students
This masterclass reviews Salvador Sunyer’s main projects in the field of music videos, focusing on the creative decisions that shape concept, rhythm and tone. The session offers insights into directing processes and narrative construction within short-form audiovisual formats.
Salvador Sunyer is a filmmaker and cultural professional with a background in cinema, performing arts and audiovisual education. His work explores narrative experimentation and the relationship between form and meaning.
