{"title":"Tuning and sensing with Korsakow: the ecocritical potentials of multilinear nonfiction","authors":"H. Brasier","doi":"10.1080/17503280.2022.2048231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17503280.2022.2048231","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The world is precarious and changing, yet we continue to find ways to order and understand these entanglements; taming the complexity out there. In linear documentary, shots by necessity need to be ordered and fixed by the edit, whilst some shots do not make the cut at all. Due to the affordances of the online network, multilinear documentary allows multiple possible arrangements of audiovisual nonfiction content without the time restrictions to leave content out. How can we conceive an audiovisual nonfiction practice which senses the entanglements of the fluxing world around us? Over the past six years I have been experimenting with the affordances of the Korsakow authoring system to make multilinear nonfiction. Korsakow works with fragments of audiovisual content and allows multiple possible relations to form between parts. Through the development of two major projects, I have found Korsakow offers a way of maintaining the world in fragments as soft multiple relations, reflecting an ecocritical world as entangled continually doing things. By sketching out the practice I developed through this body of work, I will propose that Korsakow provides an audiovisual nonfiction tool to tune into and sense the indeterminate patterns and rhythms of the world.","PeriodicalId":43545,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Documentary Film","volume":"71 26","pages":"114 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41312018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Smart storytelling","authors":"Max Schleser","doi":"10.1080/17503280.2022.2048230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17503280.2022.2048230","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While there are several publications in the field of documentary studies that deal with the digital disruption and innovations, the sub-field of emerging media needs constant re-examination as modes of production, dissemination and exhibition are exposed to significant changes and interact with documentary film in its various established and new facets. Smart Storytelling leverages contemporary digital transformations in Film and Screen Production, Screen and Digital Media and the Creative Arts more generally and synchs these with documentary studies. This special issue also explores creative practice research projects in order to demonstrate novel approaches in documentary storytelling with a focus on online, network and multilinear non-fiction and documentary practice. Particular emphasis is placed on accessible storytelling approaches, illustrating often overlooked creative processes, such as audio in cinematic VR documentary, and exploring current developments and trends such as AI for documentary media.","PeriodicalId":43545,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Documentary Film","volume":"16 1","pages":"97 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47296517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coding reality: implications of AI for documentary media","authors":"Anandana Kapur, N. Ansari","doi":"10.1080/17503280.2022.2048235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17503280.2022.2048235","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyses the frameworks of co-creation between artists and AI in the context of documentary studies. As a result of emerging AI-focused experiments in documentary and transdisciplinary arts practice, we examine the nature and scope of AI as a collaborator with a focus of documentary projects exhibited and showcased at international documentary festivals. An introduction to emergent creative possibilities is made in light of non-humanism and new materialism while presenting the implications for emerging documentary forms and formats. The AI-as-medium approach allows reflection on documentary genres through the limitations and possibilities of algorithms. With the experiential turn in arts, coding has become a means of producing novel experiences. This has led to the emergence of documentary projects at the intersection of human and machine collaboration. The article addresses how operating within AI has wider consequences for collective intelligence by going beyond the visible and locating itself in the ontological. Scholarship concerns are outlined when exploring algorithms in terms of agency and autonomy and consideration of how they have come to affect our socio-cultural fabric. Coding Reality: Implications of AI for Documentary Media further discusses documentaries which were created in close collaboration with AI.","PeriodicalId":43545,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Documentary Film","volume":"16 1","pages":"174 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41338729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The way of the bricoleuse: experiments in documentary filmmaking","authors":"Jill Daniels","doi":"10.1080/17503280.2022.2048232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17503280.2022.2048232","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article, I explore the way experimental documentary film practitioners may utilize the methodology of the bricoleuse in order to create films. I refer to my experiments in documentary film practice – mediations of memory, place and subjectivities – where I deploy hybrid filmic strategies of critical realism and fictional enactment. The bricoleuse may use footage obtained through pocket cameras, mobile devices, stills, archive or found footage – including their own past films, analogue and digital – using a digital database to store footage and to provide her with an endless storehouse of digital documents that can easily be accessed and reused in infinite ways to create new practice [Baron 2014. The Archive Effect. London: Routledge, 142]. I analyse in particular My Private Life II [Daniels, Jill. 2015. dir. My Private Life II. UK. https://vimeo.com/139077147] where I used the footage from an earlier film, My Private Life [Daniels, Jill. 2014. dir. My Private Life. UK. https://vimeo.com/104385249], to create a split screen view and my short documentary essay film, Breathing Still [Daniels, Jill. 2018. dir. Breathing Still. UK. https://vimeo.com/253291495] (shown at The Mobile Innovation Network and Association [MINA] in 2018), a short epistolary film addressed to Rosa Luxemburg and shot on a pocket camera (Canon G9X).","PeriodicalId":43545,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Documentary Film","volume":"16 1","pages":"127 - 139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46773721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond sonic realism: a cinematic sound approach in documentary 360° film","authors":"Alicia Butterworth","doi":"10.1080/17503280.2022.2048234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17503280.2022.2048234","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Sound is often recognised as critical to the success of 360° film, but in a new medium fraught with technological challenges and time constraints, there is little research to guide sound designers in their creative practice. As practitioners engage with this new 360° format, the wisdom and techniques developed from decades of documentary sound practice promise more compelling viewing experiences; however, there are many differences between cinematic documentary and non-fiction 360° film. This article contributes towards a new language of sound for this medium by exploring the sound design approaches of four non-fiction 360° films that experiment with cinematic sound practices. The findings discussed were gained from interviews conducted with leading sound designers Tom Myers from Skywalker Sound (Collisions, 2016); Joel Douek (Under the Canopy, 2017); Roland Heap (My Africa, 2018); and Mike Lange, Michael Thomas and Heath Plumb (Inside Manus, 2017). The findings detail the benefits of including sound designers from the beginning of pre-production, the implications for sound recording, and the post-production considerations in the sound studio. The practice-centred guidelines presented in this paper can be used by sound designers, directors and screen educators in the creative design and development of 360° film soundscapes.","PeriodicalId":43545,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Documentary Film","volume":"16 1","pages":"156 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42666052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Smartphone filmmaking for queer Australian documentary","authors":"P. Kelly","doi":"10.1080/17503280.2022.2048233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17503280.2022.2048233","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article draws on my experience creating the film What's With Your Nails? (2018), a film about queerness, normality, slowness, and painting fingernails, and which embraces the affordances of smartphone filmmaking for queer documentary production in Australia. Documentary practices in this field are notable for a ‘privileging of authenticity’ through a subjective perspective, and there has been a history of queer filmmakers utilising accessible production technologies. The utilisation of hyper-accessible smartphone technologies presents an opportunity for queer activist filmmakers to make work that alters what we think of empowerment and self-identity by being different to mainstream media. In this article, I observe these concepts at play in notable historical contributions to queer Australian documentary, before discussing the creation of my own film, which was created in response to mainstream representations during and after the successful Australian Marriage Equality Postal Survey in 2017. As such, I argue that mobile media devices are ideal, hyper-accessible tools that can be used to interrogate subjectivities, generate material unlike that seen in mainstream media, and contribute to a growing history of queer documentary in Australia that changes the way we think about representation.","PeriodicalId":43545,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Documentary Film","volume":"16 1","pages":"140 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42919400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Radical documentary and global crises: militant evidence in the digital age","authors":"Madison E Brown","doi":"10.1080/17503280.2022.2046738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17503280.2022.2046738","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43545,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Documentary Film","volume":"16 1","pages":"186 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44749397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interactive documentary: theory and debate","authors":"K. Munro","doi":"10.1080/17503280.2022.2039429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17503280.2022.2039429","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43545,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Documentary Film","volume":"16 1","pages":"188 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41557538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kashmir: a long winding road to freedom","authors":"S. Venkatesan, R. James","doi":"10.1080/17503280.2021.2005456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17503280.2021.2005456","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Questions of political allegiance between India and Pakistan have turned Kashmir into one of the most militarised zones in the world. Although antagonism between India and Pakistan vis-à-vis Kashmir is predicated on territorial disputes, the Kashmir Valley since the end of the British rule in India in 1947 has struggled with the contentious issues of identity, freedom, armed intrusions, often resulting in mass murders, and illegal arrests of its people. Although independent documentary film-makers address these issues, and thus offer a complicated history and politics of Kashmir, Iffat Fatima, perhaps as the only independent woman documentary film-maker based in Kashmir, engages a wide-ranging issues including enforced disappearances, politics of memory/remembrance, resistance, neo-national ideologies, ‘states of exception’ in her films. Unlike the usual male dominated conflict zones, protests in Kashmir are characterized by its resisting and protesting women. In boldly articulating Kashmiri experiences through her independent films, Fatima foregrounds women’s participation as an essential aspect of Kashmiri protest producing different outcomes and relations. Situating herself in such a precarious space, Fatima in the interview at hand discusses her filmic self, her engagement with resistance movements in Kashmir, and women’s protest movements in Kashmir.","PeriodicalId":43545,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Documentary Film","volume":"17 1","pages":"82 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45725790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}