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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Film practice"”.
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Politicizing a film practice
This is a practice-based Ph. D. in filmmaking and concerns the generation of a radical film practice. It is situated in the field of no-budget experimental film and video making and deploys a combination of deconstruction and critical perspectives of cultural production in the construction of its …
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Montage and ethnicity : experimental film practice and editing in the documentation of the Gujarati Indian community in Wales
… research, Montage and Ethnicity: Experimental Film Practice and Editing in the Documentation of the Gujarati Indian Community in Wales, posits montage practice involving a polyphonic film structure as relevant for documentation of ethnic subjects; and it explicates the implication of cultural …
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Realist Collage: Non-fiction Film Practice Addressing the History and Identity of 'Welsh Wales' through Critical Realism, Found Footage and Animation
… 20th century, the techniques of collage and film montage were linked with the cultural production of political radicalism. The assemblage of new wholes from existing parts established a critical method for negotiating the social world. Driven by technological and cultural developments, the …
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Transcending the documentary : the films of Arthur Lipsett
… Lipsett (1936-1986) was an innovative 'collage' filmmaker who worked at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) from 1958 to 1970. By combining 'found film footage' and sound with images he shot, his work explored the human condition and challenged conventional notions of documentary film and …
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Towards a Cinema of Imperfection: Participatory Film as Research
This PhD is a practice as research interrogation of the emancipatory potential of the idea of imperfection. It is framed around the key leading question: ‘How can the generation of imperfect praxis – cultural production in and through social dialogues challenging notions of technical expertise – …
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Intuitive Interventions: Constructing Documentary Cinematic Narratives
… decision method in observational documentary film practice and is based upon three films produced, directed, edited and published by the author: In Transit [2011]; Prosperous Mountain [2013]; and Pseudotachylyte [2019]. The films are created with digital technologies employing state of the art …
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Policy and practice: funding and strategies for short film in New Zealand 1994-1998
… funding influences on the strategies of short film practice in New Zealand. It seeks to connect the processes of policy and practice and the relationships of institutions and individuals as they impinge on short film. It also illustrates some of these processes as they jointly influence the …
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The Quest for a Black Film Language: archives, sound and Black aesthetics in the context of The Black Radical Tradition.
… how the world sees us. My research and practice for this PhD draw from the Black radical tradition, and its ongoing project for emancipation. This study and my film practice trace the genesis of the term “Black” to denote peoples of African origin, and interrogate its political, …
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The Quest for a Black Film Language: archives, sound and Black aesthetics in the context of The Black Radical Tradition
… how the world sees us. My research and practice for this PhD draw from the Black radical tradition, and its ongoing project for emancipation. This study and my film practice trace the genesis of the term “Black” to denote peoples of African origin, and interrogate its political, …
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WE-MOVEO Audience Innovation and the Democratization of Data
… and creator-centred resource for independent filmmaking within the contemporary platform economy. While commercial streaming platforms generate extensive behavioural analytics to optimise engagement and retention, independent filmmakers remain largely excluded from meaningful access to …
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Show of Force: film, ghosts and genres of historical performance in the Indonesian genocide
… reflection on Vision Machine's North Sumatran film project, articulating a cinema practice that seeks to address a genocide that has barely been investigated. The primary footage comprises extensive interviews, re-enactments and dramatisations of the various practices and procedures that …
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How can structural film expand the language of experimental ethnography?
This research question 'How can structural film expand the language of experimental ethnography?' considers the potential cross-fertilisation of a structural film practice with experimental ethnography to challenge dominant assumptions about cultural representation in anthropology and to suggest …
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Situating documentary film in a speculative future: an exploration in multi species entanglements
This practice-based research is a formal experiment in situating documentary film in an immanent future and, by doing so, puts forward propositions on what it means to be human in an entangled multispecies world. The research consists of A Terrible Beauty, a feature length documentary, and this …
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Visualizing global drug flows : transnational connections to the overdose crisis in New England, USA
This documentary film practice-based PhD explores the impacts of two global drug trajectories: (a) heroin adulterated with illicitly manufactured fentanyl (IMF), a powerful synthetic opioid; and (b) naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote used in the public health crisis of drug overdose deaths in …
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Mapping the Politics of Vision: searching for a transformative gaze
… to create a coherent rationale to account for my film practice, which is based on, and is the result of, research. This reflective process will draw out the aesthetic and political approaches that I have forged over the last ten years, so as to reveal their singularity. To do so, I revisit and …
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Darkness in the shadows: post-conflict trauma and the documentary image
… In the absence of such support, the work of filmmakers has increasingly sought to address this phenomenon by highlighting issues concerning transitional justice; a task complicated by contested interpretations of what defines justice. For Unionism, an emphasis on the application of law, order …
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The Integrated Soundtrack in Practice: an Electroacoustic Sensibility to Composition in Film Sound Design
This practice-led doctoral research investigates integrated approaches to filmmaking through the lens of sound design and electroacoustic composition, advancing a relational understanding of film practice in which creative processes emerge through dynamic interrelations between filmmakers, …
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Moving Image, Montage and Memory: The development of a critical documentary practice, exploring Irish identity through an exploration into found film archives and the cinematic treatment of time and memory
… North West coast of Co. Donegal in Ireland. The film’s usefulness lies in its portrayal of a small, indigenous, fragile community that clings to existence and its strength lies in giving voice to this minority in an attempt to correct perceptions of Irishness. This thesis seeks to enrich the …
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Offerings for a ghost film: From fragmented work to cosmic assemblages
… thesis takes as its starting point an unfinished film. The short history of cinema has been dominated by notions of what constitutes a film and what does not. While the establishment of technical standards enabled cinema to become one of the most pervasive global art forms, this curtailed many …
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Ghosts, Imagination and Theatre: re-enacting the futural past through documentary film
This practice-led research looks at creative strategies to address the under-represented and marginalised history of Roma persecution in WWII The research has resulted in a film, The Deathless Woman (89’ 2019), a hybrid documentary film that has been created in response to European sites of …
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