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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"essay film"”.
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Ode to Amiel: A Micro-budget Experimental Essay Film
Ode to Amiel is a feature-length experimental essay film by Phyllis Redman, made as part of the requirements for earning a Master of Fine Arts in Film in the Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema track from the University of Central Florida. The film explores one woman's reaction to trauma and …
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The Essay Film and Space: The Essayistic Filmic Space as aLocation of Thought
… research investigates the function of filmic space in essayistic discourse through the dialogic relationship between the essay film My Pink City that reflects on post-Soviet urban space in Yerevan and a written thesis that examines the role of space in the essay film. The research …
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Towards a practice of unmaking: the essay film as critical discourse for fashion in the expanded field
… at the intersection of fashion, fine arts, and film methodologies. This interdisciplinary strategy investigates fashion in the expanded field, exploring fashion practice as a form of critical thinking, questioning the fashion system itself: a practice of unmaking. The purpose of this research is …
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First-person documentary filmmaking : an ethical act or an act of betrayal?
… Ph.D. involves the making of a 50-minute essay film, Lessons Between the Lines (2025) - an intimate portrait of Monika a psychodynamic therapist whose childhood was shaped by her parents' alcoholism. I gathered testimony of Monika’s life through interviews carried out between 2020 and …
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Before You Go
Before You Go is a 13-minute essay film exploring the relationship between immigration, memory, personal identity, and how it relates to a larger Canadian narrative. Approaching this film using a hybrid process, Before You Go uses home video, old family correspondences, and actors to re-create and …
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Shadow of the Headframe
Shadow of the Headframe is a feature length essay film that paints a complex portrait of the Attawapiskat First Nation – a place that is a homeland for some, and a new frontier for others. In the shadow of a De Beers diamond mine, the remote indigenous community lurches from crisis to crisis, while …
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Shadow of the Headframe
Shadow of the Headframe is a feature length essay film that paints a complex portrait of the Attawapiskat First Nation a place that is a homeland for some, and a new frontier for others. In the shadow of a De Beers diamond mine, the remote indigenous community lurches from crisis to crisis, while …
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The Cycles of aMaízing Things
… circulates. They are further represented in an essay film. Whether referencing myths, projections, displays, or products, the artifacts become mnemonic objects to think with—depicting the cycles of maíz as a world-building exercise. Maíz becomes the point that traces simultaneity in the history …
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Al Lado, Afuera. // Beside, Outside.: The Performance of Solidarity between Archive and Repertoire in Guatemala and Canada
… and the hemispheric networks that enable it. The essay film al lado, afuera. // beside, outside. (2018, 21:12 min.), a synthesis of interviews with contemporary activists looks at human rights accompanimentthe process of situating oneself as an unarmed volunteer, assuming a physical presence …
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Gaddafi in Rome: Dissecting a Neocolonial Spectacle Crafting a genealogical strategy for an accountability-based framework
… of a series of experiments that translate the essay film form into other media: a performance-lecture (Gaddafi in Rome: the Expanded Script) and a three-channel video installation (Gaddafi in Rome: Notes for a Film). Based on the format and language of screenplays, this body of work highlights …
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Grand Tour – a film in-debt(ed): Exploring the possibilities of the essayistic filmmaking form.
… thesis concentrates on the field of essayistic filmmaking. Through my practice and the written thesis, I explore how the montage of interwoven layers of images, sound, interactivity and networking connectivity can potentially expand the conventions of essayistic filmmaking practice. …
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Enfrentar el material de archivo. El proceso de un film-ensayo
… más conocido y extendido; por otro lado, el film-ensayo aparece con menor popularidad, sin embargo, este posee un estilo muy genuino, casi único. El presente trabajo se enfoca en el proceso de construcción de un film-ensayo a partir del material de archivo personal. Se intenta dar una …
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Blivits!
… Sutter in pursuit of the Master of Fine Arts in Film & Digital Media from the University of Central Florida. This thesis examines the ethical questions of making a documentary in the digital era. In accordance with the restrictions of the program's guidelines, this film was completed a budget of …
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'Face Value' in the Moving Image Practices of Harun Farocki, William Kentridge, and Hito Steyerl
… as a locus of capture and resistance in the essay films and installations of Harun Farocki, the performance and video art of Hito Steyerl, and William Kentridge’s intermedial productions for gallery and stage. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s articulation of the face as a site of political …