Constructions of the Real

Intersections of Documentary-Based Film Practice and Theory

Christine Rogers, Kim Munro, Liz Burke, Catherine Gough-Brady (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

306 Seiten

2023
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-78938-743-8 (ISBN)

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Constructions of the Real features a wide range of writing from non-fiction and documentary filmmakers who undertake theoretically informed practice and think through making. These global filmmakers and writers straddle the divide between the academy and industry and they reflect on, interrogate and explicate their filmmaking practices in relationship to questions of form, content, and process.

The book is in four sections. The first is on intimate, first-person works where memory and identity are explored. The second features responses to and interventions in historical and dominant relationships to place. The third explores multivarious forms of essay films. In the final section, filmmakers discuss the precarity of non-fiction filmmaking in its form and financial rewards. This book is anti-colonial, in that it offers diverse new voices and new practices promoting hybridity and experimentation and makes claims for knowledges that fall outside of traditional scholarship. This book presents the silenced and the marginalized.

It engages with current debates about the role of creative scholarship and makes a claim for non-fiction filmmaking as a knowledge-making practice for revealing, critiquing, and interpreting the world.

Contributors include Kaveh Abbasian, Judith Aston, Nicholas Andueza, Elisabeth Brun, Joanna Callaghan, Gerda Cammaer, Philip Cartelli, Lorena Cervera, Jill Daniels, Kath Dooley, Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz, Andréa França, Catherine Gough-Brady, Robert Hardcastle, Alex Johnston, Elizabeth Miller, Ros Mortimer, Kim Munro, Minou Norouzi, Stefano Odorico, Rebecca Ora, Sheersha Perera, Christine Rogers, Isabel Seguí, Jeni Thornley and Masha Vlasova.

Christine Rogers is a Pākehā/Ngāi Tahu filmmaker, scholar and textile artist whose work explores belonging and identity. Kim Munro is a documentary maker and lecturer in digital media at the University of South Australia. Liz Burke is a filmmaker and documentary producer who teaches producing at Swinburne University of Technology. Catherine Gough-Brady is an award-winning documentary producer and director who explores the relational nature of filmmaking in her research.

List of Figures

Foreword

Judith Aston and Stefano Odorico

Thinking through Making in Non-Fiction Film

Christine Rogers, Kim Munro, Liz Burke and Catherine Gough-Brady

PART 1: THIS LENS MY EYE: FIRST PERSON, ETHNOGRAPHIC AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FILMMAKING

Christine Rogers

1. The Enigma of Film – ‘Memory Film: A Filmmaker’s Diary’

Jeni Thornley

2. Psychogeographical Choreography: On Filming Hand-Held

Masha Vlasova

3. Remaking Absurd Pictures

Rebecca Ora/rora

4. Creating/Recreating Memory: Cultural Menstruation Rituals through the Making of the Hybrid Documentary Big Girl

Sheersha Perera

5. Phantom Limbs and Failed Messages: A Phenomenological Provocation of First Person Film

Joanna Callaghan

6. Korimako and Macrocarpa Trees: Exploring Māori Experiences of Place through a Lens

Christine Rogers

PART 2: CONTESTED PLACES: FROM COLONIZATION TO CO-CREATION

Kim Munro

7. Interrogating Power and Unsettling Relations to Place in Documentary

Elizabeth Miller and Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz

8. Acclimations: Speculations on Making Documentary in the Climate Emergency

Kim Munro

9. In Search of Ambiguity

Philip Cartelli

10. Can Sound Be Used to Challenge the Colonial Legacies of Silent Archival Film?

Robert Hardcastle

11. Fraught Narratives, Archival Traces: Documentary Experiments in Carceral History

Alexander Johnston

PART 3: THE EXPANDED ESSAY FILM: THINKING WITH IMAGES AND SOUNDS

Liz Burke

12. Cinematic Aesthetics of Resistance: Reframing the Non-fiction Oppositional Film

Jill Daniels

13. Flaunting Artifice: Restaging History as Critical Fabulation in The Deathless Woman

Roz Mortimer

14. Tracing Yugoslavia: The Use of Narrative Time and Narrative Space to Re-Vision a Disappeared lieux de memoire (Memory-Site)

Mila Turajlic

15. The Creative Ti(d)es of Sea-Changes: Musings on the Making of an Eco-Avant-Doc

Gerda Cammaer

16. Weaving Fragments Together: Narrative and the Korsakow-Based Film

Liz Burke

17. The Expanded Essay Film: The Researcher-Filmmaker as a Topographical Thinker

Elisabeth Brun

PART 4: NOTICING THE FRAME AND THE FORM

Catherine Gough-Brady

18. Refugee Filmmaking: Finding Agency through the Lens

Kaveh Abbasian

19. Passeio Público: The Life of Images and the Irresistible Fascination of Archival Film

Andréa França and Nicholas Andueza

20. #PrecarityStory: Academic Casualization and Feminist Filmmaking

Lorena Cervera and Isabel Seguí

21. Exploring Viewer Positioning and Attention Cues in a Cinematic Virtual Reality Documentary: A Creative Research Project

Kath Dooley

22. Not Another Moment of Your Salvation: Documentary, Art Practice and Their Empathic Misadventures

Minou Norouzi

23. Three Questions: A Practitioner’s Approach to the Documentary Form

Catherine Gough-Brady

Notes on Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	28.04.2023
Reihe/Serie	Artwork Scholarship: International Perspectives in Education
Zusatzinfo	54 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Gewicht	694 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
ISBN-10	1-78938-743-4 / 1789387434
ISBN-13	978-1-78938-743-8 / 9781789387438
Zustand	Neuware