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One World Human Rights Documentary Film Festival: Limits of (de)centralised management during the pandemic

June 8, 2021/in Festival Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2021_#Solidarity /by Greg DeCuir

The One World Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (One World), which takes place in March, opens the Czech festival season. Since its inception in 1999, initiated by a human rights campaigner Igor Blaževič, this has become a reputable event and one of the major European human rights film festivals. In terms of the total number […]

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Hybrid Conference – ‘Television Histories in Development’

March 31, 2021/in News /by Greg DeCuir

Taking place from 30 September – 1 October 2021 in a hybrid format, the conference ‘Television Histories in Development’ will explore the histories of television from a broad cultural and societal perspective. Coinciding with 70 years of television in the Netherlands, the event (organized by Prof. Huub Wijfjes, University of Groningen, and Dr. Josette Wolthuis, […]

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Hybrid Conference – ‘Visible Evidence XXVII’

March 25, 2021/in News /by Greg DeCuir

From 15-18 December 2021, the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies (TFM) at Goethe University Frankfurt will be hosting the ‘Visible Evidence XXVII’ conference. Taking place in a hybrid format, the conference will bring together scholars and practitioners to explore how documentary responds to the current crisis of democracy. Special themes – under the […]

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Lecture Series – ‘MIT Open Documentary Lab’

February 22, 2021/in News /by Greg DeCuir

The MIT Open Documentary Lab lecture series explores collaborative, interactive and immersive forms of storytelling in documentary, with a particular focus on emerging technologies. On February 23, Joe Brewster, Yasmin Elayat and Michèle Stephenson will discuss the challenges and opportunities in their quest to use virtual reality and storytelling as a tool for healing and […]

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Sound and the audiovisual essay, part 1: Dialogue, music, and effects

November 29, 2020/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2020_#Method /by Greg DeCuir

This first part of a two-part issue on sound and music in the audiovisual essay considers the contribution of discrete areas of sound and music to film. Presenting these different approaches to researching sound and music provides an opportunity to collectively investigate the integrated soundtrack.

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Festival – ‘Open City Documentary Festival’

September 4, 2020/in News /by Greg DeCuir

From 9-15 September 2020, the tenth edition of the Open City Documentary Festival London will celebrate the art of non-fiction and provide a platform for both young and established filmmakers to challenge the idea of documentary in all its forms. Taking place online this year, the programme combines film screenings, industry events, audio documentaries as […]

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Female Authorship and the Documentary Image / Female Agency and Documentary Strategies

December 21, 2019/in Autumn 2019_#Gesture, Book Reviews, Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

At a time when women’s access to shaping the public discourse through the exercise of their agency remains a precious commodity, the volumes edited by Boel Ulfsdotter and Anna Backman Rogers – Female Authorship and the Documentary Image and Female Agency and Documentary Strategies – come as important and necessary contributions to the field of […]

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Media mapping and oil extraction: A Louisiana story

December 2, 2018/in Autumn 2018_#Mapping /by Greg DeCuir

by Janet Walker Introduction  Dead trees with leafless branches grey against the sky, flooded roads, houses raised up on stilts: such are the marks of coastal communities in peril in this time of environmental volatility and degradation. Chief Albert Naquin states in the 2015 documentary Can’t Stop the Water that ‘[t]he small Indian community of […]

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The Flaherty names Jon-Sesrie Goff as new Executive Director

September 5, 2018/in News /by Greg DeCuir

The Board of Trustees of The Flaherty is pleased to announce that Jon-Sesrie Goff will become Executive Director effective 10 September 2018. Goff, who previously served as Museum Specialist in Film at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, brings considerable talent, deep knowledge of art and film, administrative experience, and leadership ability […]

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Providing evidence for a philosophical claim: The Act of Killing and the banality of evil

December 6, 2017/in Autumn 2017_#Dress, Features /by Greg DeCuir

by Thomas E. Wartenberg[1] There has been an ongoing debate among philosophers and film theorists about whether films are capable of doing philosophy. The vast majority of the contributions to this debate have concentrated on narrative fiction films and the extent to which they are capable of producing something recognisable as philosophy.[2] This essay begins […]

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Current trends across three European human rights film festivals

May 28, 2017/in Festival Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2017_#True /by Greg DeCuir

Three major human rights film festivals (HRFFs) take place on the European continent annually in March. In 2017 the line-up was as follows: One World was held in Prague, Czech Republic from 6-15 March; the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) in Geneva, Switzerland unfolded between 10-19 March; and Movies that Matter […]

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The filmic representation of home in transnational families: The case of ‘I for India’

December 5, 2016/in Autumn 2016_#Home /by Greg DeCuir

by Efrén Cuevas In an increasingly globalised world, the phenomenon of transnational families has spanned many countries, raising questions as to the traditional understanding of home, a concept normally associated with the notions of homeland and the family house. This article intends to study these issues through an analysis of I for India (2005), a […]

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Being Bowie

December 4, 2016/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2016_#Home /by Greg DeCuir

by Will Brooker and Rebecca Hughes Brooker This film documents a project that began when a musical hero and cultural icon of mine died. Lou Reed passed away in October 2013, which made me realise I should celebrate one of my other heroes, David Bowie, while he was still alive. My way of paying tribute […]

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House Arrest

December 4, 2016/1 Comment/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2016_#Home /by Greg DeCuir

by Domietta Torlasco I have always been interested in doing what Godard once described as ‘research in the form of a spectacle’. Even in my writing, I begin by collecting images and quotes, treating the latter as passages (walkways), visible points of entry into a world (of ideas) that for me always maintains a sensorial, […]

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How do film festivals work?: A conversation with Joshua Oppenheimer

December 4, 2016/in Autumn 2016_#Home, Festival Reviews, Interviews, Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

Few documentary filmmakers have been as widely discussed in recent years as Joshua Oppenheimer. He burst onto the scene in 2012 with The Act of Killing, one of the more powerful feature-length debuts of any genre in recent memory. The documentary is about politically-motivated, state-sponsored killings in the 1960s in Indonesia and the residue of […]

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