The Doctoral School will educate specialists in the discipline of film and theatre in all areas covered by the Lodz Film School curriculum: film and television direction, cinematography, acting, film and television production management, screenwriting, film editing, animation and special effects and photography.
PhD students are artists, researchers and future educators.
The purpose of the School's existence is to support their development in each of these areas. PhD students participate in lectures, seminars and workshops provided for in the School's curriculum, work on their own projects in cooperation with lecturers and invited guests, and run classes for the students of BA and MA programmes.
The curriculum of the Doctoral School creates contexts, inspires and provides its students with the necessary instruments to combine in their work original creativity with a deepened reflection on reality and the medium of their choice as well as preparing them to conduct teaching in art schools in the field of film and theatre arts.
The philosophy of the Doctoral School was based on the "practice as research" approach, which treats artistic creation as an equivalent, methodologically original component of the research process. According to this approach, the work is not only the result or presentation of conclusions from the research process, but the actual place of thinking - thinking not only with the help of concepts and words, but forms and techniques specific to the chosen medium.