READING

This page will include links to readings for IMA Doc II

 

Here is the section of Barbash and Taylor’s Cross-Cultural Filmmaking about fieldwork:

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Taylor is Lucien Taylor Castaing of Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab note…

Researching the Overcode

Brian Holmes is a philosopher who works with activists and artists and with people who are both, and sees the artist’s task (or did in 2009) as a kind of activist research: “locating yourself against the horizons of disaster, then finding the modes and scales of concrete intervention into lived experience.”

Here is a section of his book Escape the Overcode that attempts to address the research project of our times:  https://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/activist-research/

ETHICS

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Here is my article “Documentary: Trauma and an Ethics of Knowing.”  In it I explore some of the issues surrounding working with traumatic subjects.

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For Online Lecture – The Essay Film

In the Lecture I reference a text by Ursula Biemann from the collection Stuff It: The video essay in the digital age.

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Rabiger: Chapter 18 Dramatic Development, Time, and Story Structure 

FAIR USE READING

READING FOR WEEK 12/13

And for additional reading I recommend Roland Barthes’ Mythologies: