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11. Fragments, Form and Photogénie: Using Practice to Research the Intersectional Work of Poetic Documentary

Author : Bettina Frankham

Published in: Screen Production Research

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

As creators of media works defined by a close relationship with the real, a significant question for documentary practitioners is how to respond to the complexity of reality. Theories of spectator embodiment suggest opportunities to address these conditions through both the content and form of documentary work. Building on Epstein’s photogénie and Marks’s tactile epistemologies, this chapter examines a poetic approach to documentary production as one way to activate diverse knowledges that go beyond what can be expressed verbally. Using examples from the production of the short documentary, How Many Ways to Say You? this chapter suggests that the intersectional methodology of an open, poetic approach to documentary can provoke diverse knowledges for makers and spectators that may address our fragile and changeful context.

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Footnotes
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Creative works that informed and shaped the research project include Stati d’Animo (Fairskye 2009), Cows (Golder 2002), Christmas Birrimbirr (Gurrumuruwuy et al. 2011), Manapanmirr, in Christmas Spirit (Gurrumuruwuy et al. 2012), Glas (Haanstra 1958), The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (Honkasalo 2004), Regen (Ivens 1929), Ten Thousand Waves (Julien 2010), Iraqi Kurdistan (Kashi et al. 2006), Sleep Furiously (Koppel 2007), Letters to Ali (Law 2004), Sans Soleil (Marker 1983), Phantom Limb (Rosenblatt 2005), Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (Ruttman 1927), Disorient (Tan 2009), Reassemblage (Trinh 1982), Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (Varda 2000), Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov 1929) and Jade Green Station (Yu 2003).
 
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Metadata
Title
Fragments, Form and Photogénie: Using Practice to Research the Intersectional Work of Poetic Documentary
Author
Bettina Frankham
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Screen Production Research

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-62836-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-62837-0

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62837-0_11