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Harrison, Nicholas. "PONTECORVO'S ‘DOCUMENTARY’ AESTHETICS." Interventions 9, no. 3 (November 2007): 389–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698010701618638.
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Lury, K. "Closeup: documentary aesthetics." Screen 44, no. 1 (March 1, 2003): 101–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/screen/44.1.101.
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Le Roy, Frederik, and Robrecht Vanderbeeken. "The Documentary Real: Thinking Documentary Aesthetics." Foundations of Science 23, no. 2 (December 29, 2016): 197–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10699-016-9513-8.
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Kang seyoon and 이원덕. "Sound aesthetics of documentary realism." journal of the moving image technology associon of korea 1, no. 28 (June 2018): 115–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.34269/mitak.2018.1.28.007.
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Capdevilla, Pol. "The objectifying documentary: realism, aesthetics and temporality." Communication & Society 28, no. 4 (October 15, 2015): 67–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.15581/003.28.4.67-85.
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Redmon, David. "Documentary criminology: Girl Model as a case study." Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal 13, no. 3 (July 4, 2016): 357–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1741659016653994.
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Visual and cultural criminology are integrated with documentary filmmaking to develop a theoretically grounded, practice-based approach called ‘documentary criminology’. The first section establishes the need for documentary filmmaking in criminology and outlines methodological opportunities. The second section examines theoretically the aesthetics and substance of documentary criminology. The third section takes the film Girl Model (Redmon and Sabin, 2011) as a case study to demonstrate how documentary criminology embedded in lived experience (in this case, the experience of scouts that recruit young Russian girls, purportedly for the modelling industry) can depict sensuous immediacy. The final section contrasts the aesthetic and ethical consequences of documentary criminology within Carrabine’s (2012, 2014) concept of ‘just’ images to a documentary filmmaking approach that remains interpretively open-ended. Readers can access Girl Model at https://vimeo.com/29694894 with the password industry.
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Battaglia, Giulia. "Documentary films in India: critical aesthetics at work." Studies in Documentary Film 11, no. 2 (March 20, 2017): 157–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17503280.2017.1304507.
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Friday, J. "Demonic curiosity and the aesthetics of documentary photography." British Journal of Aesthetics 40, no. 3 (July 1, 2000): 356–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/40.3.356.
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Heinemann, David, and Sharon Lin Tay. "The French documentary in context: genealogy, aesthetics, ethics." Studies in French Cinema 14, no. 3 (September 2, 2014): 157–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14715880.2014.949452.
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Chaudhary, Zahid R. "Desert Blooms." October 168 (May 2019): 92–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/octo_a_00351.
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This essay considers the place of abstraction in documentary photography, a genre whose primary aesthetic-political commitment is usually assumed to be on the side of figuration, denotation, and facticity. Taking up photographer Fazal Sheikh's photographic series Desert Bloom, which records natural and human-made disturbances in the Naqab/Negev desert, the essay considers artistic abstraction in relation to other forms of economic, juridical, and political abstraction critical to settler colonialism in particular and capitalism more generally. How might abstraction be the very condition of politics? What might this imply for our understandings of documentary aesthetics?
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Documentary aesthetics"
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Xu, Jiacheng 4159187. "Yi, Observational Documentary Aesthetics, and the Identity Politics of Transcultural Migrancy." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4816.
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There is a moment in Edward Yang’s acclaimed film Yi Yi (2000) in which a young boy in a conversation with his father observes that he cannot see what his father sees and that his father cannot see what he sees, prompting two questions: “How can I know what you see?” and “Can we only know half of the truth?” Unable to provide adequate answers, his father instead offers his son a camera. Later in the film, the same boy presents his uncle with a picture he took of the back of his head. When asked why, the boy responds by saying, “You cannot see it yourself, so I’m helping you.” These two scenes in Yang’s film illustrate the spirit of the questions that guide the aesthetic approach I have taken in my own documentary project. My thesis is composed of two parts: a video project and a research paper, the former of which is a documentary entitled Yi. Named after its primary subject, the film explores the intersections of transnational migrancy and cultural identity through a series of interviews that are intercut with scenes of everyday life that are shot in an observational style. The research paper that follows will situate the project within a specific historical, conceptual, and aesthetic context, before delineating how the cinematic composition of my documentary engages with this framework.
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Grose, Robert. "The emergence of the documentary real within relational and post-relational political aesthetics." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/311131.
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The aim of this thesis is to conduct a post-relational reading of the programme of relational art and its influence upon current aesthetics. ‘Post’ is not used in the indicative sense here: it does not simply denote the passing of the high water mark of relational art’s critical reception. Rather, it seeks to identify what remains symptomatically unresolved in relational art through a reading of its texts together with its critique. Amongst these unresolved problems certain questions endure. The question of this art’s claim to autonomy and its problematic mode of appearance and materialism remain at large. Ironically it shares the same fate as the avant-garde it sought to distance itself from; the failure to unite art with the everyday. But it has nevertheless redefined the parameters of artistic production: this is its success. I argue that this is because relational art was internally riven from its outset by a contradiction between its micropolitical structures and the need to find a mode of representation that did not transgress its self-imposed taboo upon visual representation. I identify a number of strategies that relational art has used to address this problem: for example its transitive ethics and its separation of ‘the visual’ from formal representations of public space and of a liminal counter-public sphere. Above all, I argue that its principle of the productive mimesis and translation of social relations through art is the guarantor of this art’s autonomy. My thesis is premised upon the notion that one can learn much about new forms of critical art from the precepts and suppositions that informed relational aesthetics and its critical reception. Relational aesthetics, in fact, establishes the terms of engagement that inform new critical art. Above all, this is because the question of the ‘relation of non-relation’ is bigger than relational aesthetics. The ‘relation of non-relation’ does not denote the impossibility of relation between subjects. Rather, it is a category that identifies non-relation as the very source of productive relations. This can be applied to those liminal points of separation that 6 delineate the territory of critical art prior to relational aesthetics. For example, these instances of ‘non-relation’ appear in the separation of art from non-art; of representation from micropolitics and of the anti-relational opposition of the philosophical categories of the general and the particular. Overall, I seek to reclaim Bourriaud as instrumental to the re-thinking of these categories and as essential to a reading of current critical art discourse. I identify a number of misreadings of relational aesthetics that result from a misrecognition or unwillingness to engage with Nicolas Bourriaud’s direct influences: Serge Daney, Michel de Certeau, Gilles Deleuze and Louis Althusser are often overlooked in this respect. I argue that Bourriaud’s critics tend to bring their own agendas to bear on his work, often seeking to remediate what is problematic. These critiques introduce existing aesthetic and political paradigms into his work in order to claim him as their own. So for example we encounter antagonistic relational aesthetics as the reinstatement of the avant-garde. Also, relational aesthetics as an immanent critique of the commodity form within a selective reading of Theodor Adorno. Also, we encounter dissensual relational aesthetics as ‘communities of sense’ that adopt site-specific methodologies whose mode of inhabitation of the socius is a reaction to relational aesthetics and is premised upon separatism. This diversification of relational art’s critique does not address, however, its fundamental problems of autonomy and representation. Rather, in different ways, they sidestep these issues and duplicate their non-relationality in the form of an impasse. My reading seeks to read the relational programme as a whole and to reclaim that which is symptomatically post-relational within it. I think that this is important because the critique of Bourriaud is presently unduly weighted towards the analysis of Relational Aesthetics (Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics, trans. by S. Pleasance and F. Woods, (Dijon: Les presses du réel, 2002)), thus important developments within Postproduction (2002) and The Radicant(2009) have gone overlooked. Specifically, Bourriaud’s increased emphasis upon a topology of forms and an Althusserian ‘aleatory materialism’ demand that we ask whether relationality in art is ontological or epistemological in form. It also demands that we re-consider its claims to materialism and critical realism on its own terms. Bourriaud’s later works are important not simply because they set out how relational art might inhabit networks of electronic communication but because they begin to develop a more coherent thinking of new modes of relational representation. Bourriaud begins to address the aporia of micropolitics and representation in his later works. His notion of representation becomes increasingly a matter of spatio-temporal relation and the representational act becomes increasingly identified with the motility of the relational act as a performative presentation. In the light of these developments, I argue that the thinking of relation that has thus far dictated the philosophical analysis of relationality and political aesthetics results in an acute anti-relationality or a ‘relational anarchism’. This is why the philosophy of Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou respectively, are inadequate to the demands of current aesthetics. In fact they hinder its development. On this basis I turn to Rodolphe Gashé’s re-thinking of relation. His thinking grants relation a minimal ontology that in fact excludes it from philosophy, but at the same time, plays a key role in the construction of singularities as new epistemological categories. Gashé suggests a unique epistemological value for relations and recognizes what is evental within them. These singularities find their modes of appearance within various forms of the encounter. Gashé’s thought is helpful in that it identifies the non-relational of relation with its event. Also, I argue that a theory of post-relational representation is necessary to address the ‘weak manifestations of relational art’, although not in a transgressive or messianistic form; also, that this thinking of representation, when combined with aleatory materialism, produces a 8 broad constituency of representational forms with which to construct a more robust critical art. This includes the documentary form. In order to address the objections of micropolitics I therefore advance Philip Auslander’s notion of the performativity of the document as essential to relational aesthetics because it is an art form that in fact requires mediation by the visual. My argument is premised upon the ineliminability of representation from the aesthetic and moreover, that the artwork is constituted within a broad nexus of operations and acts of signification. This fragmentary construction is the source of the objectivity or critical realism of these practices. I argue that ‘visual’ documentation functions as a tool for presencing and connecting relations of exchange but is merely one of the forms of representation available to visual artists.
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Sniadecki, John Paul. "Digital Jianghu: Independent Documentary in a Beijing Art Village." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10971.
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My ethnography explores the independent documentary film community in Songzhuang, an artist village in Beijing's Tongzhou District. Through participant-observation, interviews, participation in festivals, and my own filmmaking practice, I describe filmmakers and festival organizers as cultural producers endeavoring to work outside the confines of both the government and the mainstream cinema industry. To offer an analysis of the social, political, economic, and ethical conditions of this independent film community, my study also focuses on concrete practices of filmmakers and film supporters; privately-owned centers and social networks that enable the production, exhibition, and distribution of films; and the relationship between this community and government regulation. I argue that the independent documentary community constitutes a jianghu (literally, “rivers and lakes”), which, drawing from Chinese literature, I delimit as a social world of marginality and resistance against the status quo. Further, jianghu refers not only to independent filmmakers, but also to millions of “migrants” within the Chinese population who, even as they provide labor that fuels development, nonetheless subsist on the margins. This study also considers the efforts of filmmakers and scholars to elucidate a Chinese visual aesthetic, which has been called xianchang (“on the spot”) and, most recently, jingguan dianying (“quiet observational cinema”). These indigenous framings counter eurocentric notions of documentary and prevail among the majority of independent directors as an aesthetic wellsuited to represent the “cruelty of the social,” a term I introduce to describe social suffering born not only of China’s modern history of pain but also its contemporary turbulent era. I draw together the issues of distribution, social impact, and economic stability for independent documentary, as well as document the role of the state in quelling, censoring, and co-opting independent film. I conclude by exploring xianchang and my own filmmaking practice as advancing a form of knowledge that, owing to its experiential quality and its refusal to simplify and reduce phenomena into cultural data, is well-suited to represent the inherent complexity of Chinese society. Finally, a coda documents recent government oppression and festival cancellations to argue that the current moment is one of grave uncertainty for Chinese independent film.Anthropology
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Qian, Ying. "Visionary Realities: Documentary Cinema in Socialist China." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11035.
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This dissertation examines documentary cinema in Socialist China as an emerging technology of mass politics, a new medium for creating political imaginaries and writing history, and a global vernacular connecting China to other revolutionary and modernizing cultures. At the center of my investigation is documentary cinema's capacities to work across boundaries between reality and fiction, between physical and metaphysical worlds, and between a historical world bound by its materiality and a revolutionary world mobilized to take leaps into a brighter future. I argue that these capacities made documentary a particularly relevant media for socialism for both epistemological and historiographical reasons. Epistemologically, documentary brought together the empirical and the ideological, both fundamental to a Marxist quest for truth. Historiographically, documentary's deep bond to the present moment and its capacity for temporal re-structuring and mass mobilization allowed it to intervene radically into the making and writing of history, particularly in a society engaged with engineering its own transformation. Using visual archives only recently made available, the dissertation's wide-ranging discussions include how documentary re-enacted the civil war upon the founding of the PRC, documented "tomorrow" during the Great Leap Forward, created mass passions for diplomacy in the 1960s, and enabled a poetics of mourning and testimony in the immediate years after the Cultural Revolution.East Asian Languages and Civilizations
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McDaniel, Kyle. "Aesthetics of Historiophoty: The Uses and Affects of Visual Effects for Photography in the Historical Documentary Film." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20729.
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This dissertation examines the origins, applications, and functions of visual effects in the historical documentary film. This research study investigates how aesthetic and editorial practices and tools are used for different image forms and as part of the visual presentation. A research design that implements qualitative interviews, visual analysis, and focus groups was incorporated to examine visual effects and images at three specific sites. The pan-and-zoom effect and its variants as well as select titles from the filmography of Ken Burns were used as case studies for this dissertation. The findings from the analyses suggest that visual effects for still image forms and the repetition of these applications and strategies are significant to the content depicted in images, the scope of the visual presentation, and the capacity for audiences to connect to historical information in the film.
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Van, de Peer Stefanie E. "The aesthetics of moderation in documentaries by North African women." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3535.
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This thesis focuses on documentaries by North African women, who have been marginalised within the limited space of the field of African filmmaking. I illustrate how North African cinema has suffered from neglect in studies on African as well as Arab culture and particularly African and Arab cinema. I discuss the work of four pioneering women documentary makers in Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. Consecutively I will discuss Ateyyat El Abnoudy, Selma Baccar, Assia Djebar and Izza Génini’s work. My approach is transnational and Bakhtinian in the sense that I am an outsider looking in. I promote a constant self-awareness as a Western European and an academic interested in the area that is defined as the Middle East. Like the documentary makers, I take the nation state as a starting point so as to understand its effects, in order to be able to critique it and place the films in a transnational context. The documentaries in this thesis illustrate that films of a socio-political nature contest the notion of a singular national identity and can become a means of self-definition. Asserting one’s own cultural and national identity, and subjectively offering the spectator an individual’s interpretation of that self-definition, is a way towards female emancipation. Going against the grain and avoiding stereotypes, evading censorship and dependence on state control, these directors find ways to give a different dimension to their identity. Analysing the work of these four pioneering filmmakers, I uncover diverse female subject matters treated by a similar aesthetic. I argue that through overlooked cinematic techniques, they succeed in subverting the censor and communicating a subtle but convincing critique of the patriarchal system in their respective countries. Their preoccupation with representing ‘the other half’ puts a new and under-explored spin on perceptions of anti-establishment filming with subtly emancipating consequences. I suggest that their common aesthetic is one that develops moderation in terms of context, content and style. There is a cinematic way of implicitly subverting not only the (colonial) past but also the (neo-colonial) present which goes further than re-inscription or compensation: new modes of resistance co-exist with the more rebellious and heroic ones. These women’s films rewrite, imply and contemplate rather than denounce and attack heroically. They do not reject as much as interrogate their situations, counting on the empathic and intersubjective abilities of the spectator. A relationship of trust between director, subject and spectator is crucial if we want to believe in the subalterns’ aptitude for voicing issues and gazing back. I reveal a different approach to communication beyond the verbal, and a belief in the subjects’ capacities to speak and listen. This is echoed in the filmmaker’s sensitive analysis of the subjects’ expression and voice and the non-vocal expression – the gaze. The intended outcome is dependent on the willingness of the spectator to take part in the intersubjective communication triangle. I conclude with the idea that moderation is the foundational concept of a post-Third Cinema transnational aesthetic in North Africa. Ateyyat El Abnoudy, Selma Baccar, Assia Djebar and Izza Génini are pioneers of women’s filmmaking in North Africa, who opened up a space for underrepresented subjects, voices and gazes.
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Martin, Deborah. "Gender, politics & aesthetics in Colombian women's cultural production 1940-2005 : Débora Arango, Laura Restrepo & women's documentary." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612030.
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Hart, Phoebe. "Orchids : intersex and identity in documentary." Queensland University of Technology, 2009. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/29712/.
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Orchids: Intersex and Identity in Documentary explores the creative practice challenges of working with bodies with intersex in the long-form auto/biographical documentary Orchids. Just as creative practice research challenges the dominant hegemony of quantitative and qualitative research, so does my creative work position itself as a nuanced piece, pushing the boundaries of traditional cultural studies theories, documentary film practice and creative practice method, through its distinctive distillation and celebration of a new form of discursive rupturing, the intersex voice.
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Shapins, Jesse Moss. "Mapping the Urban Database Documentary: Authorial Agency in Utopias of Kaleidoscopic Perception and Sensory Estrangement." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11021.
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This dissertation theorizes the genre of the urban database documentary, a mode of media art practice that uses structural systems to uncover new perspectives on the lived experience of place. While particularly prominent in recent decades, I argue that the genre of the urban database documentary arises at the turn of the 20th century in response to the rise of the metropolis and the widespread adoption of new media technologies such as photography, cinema, and radio. This was a time when the modern city engendered significant disorientation in its inhabitants, dramatically expanding horizontally and vertically. The rampant pace of technological development at this time also spawned feelings of dehumanization and the loss of connection to embodied experience. The urban database documentary emerges as a symptomatic response to the period's new cultural conditions, meeting a collective need to create order from vast quantities of information and re-frame perception of daily experience. The design of structural systems became a creative method for simultaneously addressing these vast new quantities of information, while attending to the particularities of individual experience. For media artists, building a database into the aesthetic design of a work itself offers an avenue for creatively documenting the radical multiplicity of urbanized environments, preserving attention to the sensory experience of details while aspiring to a legible whole. Crucially, I argue that the design of these systems is a vital form of authorial agency. By reading these artists' work in relation to contemporary practice, I aim to make transparent the underlying, non-technical ambitions that fuel this distinctive mode of media art practice.
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Araújo, Juliano José de 1981. "Cineastas indígenas, documentário e autoetnografia : um estudo do projeto Vídeo nas Aldeias." [s.n.], 2015. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285321.
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Resumo: Criado em 1986 pelo indigenista e documentarista Vincent Carelli, o projeto Vídeo nas Aldeias (VNA) objetiva fortalecer as identidades, patrimônios culturais e territoriais dos povos indígenas através dos recursos audiovisuais. O VNA atua como uma escola de cinema para os povos indígenas brasileiros por meio de oficinas de formação em audiovisual realizadas nas aldeias e na sede do projeto, em Olinda, no estado de Pernambuco. Desempenha também um papel fundamental como entidade responsável pela captação de recursos, produção e distribuição dos documentários. Nesse contexto, esta pesquisa analisa 28 documentários da série "Cineastas indígenas" realizados entre 1999 e 2011 no âmbito do projeto VNA. Trata-se de seis curtas-metragens e 22 médias-metragens de cineastas indígenas das etnias Ashaninka, Huni Kui, Kisedje, Kuikuiro, Mbya-Guarani, Panará e Xavante. Essa produção audiovisual de não-ficção é considerada como uma prática de autoetnografia no documentário, à medida que ao conceder a câmera para os indígenas lhes é permitido o que dizer, quando, onde e como filmar, a partir de uma perspectiva interna, na qual eles apresentam suas aldeias, seu cotidiano, sua história, suas festas e rituais, como também os problemas sociais que enfrentam. Nesse sentido, a tese propõe a categoria de documentário autoetnográfico para o corpus analisado, tendo como questões norteadoras: Quais são os procedimentos de criação, métodos de trabalho e condições de realização dos documentários autoetnográficos do projeto VNA? E as posturas éticas, opções estéticas e técnicas neles presentes? Qual a importância desses filmes para as comunidades indígenas que deles participam? Com que finalidade eles são realizados? A partir da análise fílmica, em uma perspectiva textual e contextual, isto é, estabelecendo um diálogo entre elementos internos (imagem, som etc.) e externos dos documentários (entrevistas com realizadores indígenas, equipe do VNA, sujeitos filmados, conceitos das teorias do cinema antropológico e documentário etc.), apresenta-se o estudo do corpus enfatizando, respectivamente, as dimensões ética, estética e política da produção audiovisual de não-ficção do projeto VNA. Considera-se essas três dimensões do discurso fílmico como fundamentais para se compreender melhor a categoria de documentário autoetnográfico que, para além de um conceito dos estudos pós-coloniais, acredita-se constituir em uma tomada de posição e reflexão do campo do cinema diante dos filmes dos realizadores indígenas. A análise dos documentários autoetnográficos do projeto VNA revela: um processo de realização cinematográfica (preparação, filmagem e montagem) no qual a autoria é compartilhada, sendo a ética um elemento presente em todas as etapas; o emprego e a modulação de diferentes gestos estéticos com uma forte influência dos cinemas direto/verdade, mas também questões que emergem com força na produção audiovisual de não-ficção contemporânea, como a encenação e o uso das imagens de arquivo; o papel político desempenhado pelos documentários, tendo em vista que se direcionam aos espectadores não-indígenas, seus enunciatários, para discutir a relação entre história oficial versus história não-oficial, a identidade e cultura indígenas, ou ainda para denunciar, reivindicar e lhes dar visibilidade
Abstract: Created in 1986 by the indigenist and documentary filmmaker Vincent Carelli, the project Vídeo nas Aldeias ¿ VNA (Video in the Villages) aims at reinforcing the identities, cultural and territorial patrimonies of indigenous peoples by means of audiovisual resources. VNA works as a cinema school and provides Brazilian indigenous peoples with workshops on audiovisual production, both in the villages and at the project headquarters, located in the city of Olinda, in the state of Pernambuco. It also plays a fundamental role as the responsible entity for the fundraising, production and distribution of documentaries. In this context, this research analyzes 28 documentaries from "Indigenous Filmmakers", a series produced by VNA from 1999 to 2011. This set of documentaries includes 6 short films and 22 medium-length films by indigenous filmmakers of the ethnic groups Ashaninka, Huni Kui, Kisedje, Kuikuiro, Mbya-Guarani, Panará, and Xavante. This nonfiction audiovisual production is seen as a practice of autoethnography inside the documentary: once the Indians are provided with cameras, they are also allowed to decide what to say, when, where and how to shoot. From an inner perspective, they present their villages, their daily life, their histories, their rituals and traditional events, as well as the social problems they face. That being said, this dissertation argues that the corpus analyzed in this work fit into the category of autoethnographic documentary and presents the following questions: What are the creation procedures, working methods and realization conditions involved in the production of VNA¿s autoethnographic documentaries? And what are the ethical stances, the aesthetic and the technical options presented by them? What is the importance of these films for the indigenous communities that take part in them? For what purpose are they made? The study of the corpus is based on filmic analysis, from textual and contextual perspectives, that is, establishing a dialogue between internal (image, sound etc.) and external (interviews with indigenous filmmakers, the VNA¿s staff, the filmed subjects, concepts from the anthropological cinema and documentary film theories etc.) elements of the documentaries. It also underscores the ethical, aesthetical and political dimension of VNA¿s nonfiction audiovisual production. These three dimensions of the filmic discourse are seen as fundamental for a better comprehension of the autoethnographic documentary ¿ a category which is not only a concept from the postcolonial studies, but also a way through which cinema takes a stance and reflects on the production of indigenous filmmakers. The analysis of VNA¿s autoethnographic documentaries reveals: a filmmaking process (preparation, filmmaking and montage) in which authorship is shared and the ethics an element present in all these steps; the employment and modulation of different aesthetic gestures, a strong influence from the direct cinema/cinéma vérité, alongside issues that emerge with force in the contemporary nonfiction audiovisual production, such as the staging and the use of archival footage; the political role played by the documentaries, since they are addressed to the non-indigenous public in order to discuss the relation between official and unofficial history, indigenous identity and culture, or even to denounce, claim and give visibility to indigenous peoples
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Books on the topic "Documentary aesthetics"
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Latta, Maureen. Documentary reframed: Process, politics, and aesthetics. Saskatoon, SK: Paved Arts, 2008.
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Sharma, Aparna Katara. Documentary films in India: Critical aesthetics at work. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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Taiwan ji lu pian mei xue lun tan (2010 Guo li Taiwan mei shu guan). 2010 Taiwan ji lu pian mei xue lun tan: Taiwan Documentary Aesthetics Forum. Taizhong Shi: Guo li Taiwan mei shu guan, 2010.
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Indigenous aesthetics: Native art, media, and identity. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998.
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Manufacturing truth: The documentary moment in early Soviet culture. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2008.
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Giorgi, Leoniże. Telepublicʻistikis poetika: Dokumenturi masalis organizacʻiuli strukʻtura satelevizio publicʻistikaši. Tʻbilisi: [s.n.], 2002.
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Beyaert-Geslin, Anne. L'image préoccupée. Paris: Hermès science publications, 2009.
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Roshalʹ, L. Ėffekt skrytogo izobrazhenii͡a︡: Fakt i avtor v neigrovom kino. Moskva: Materik, 2001.
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Szeman, Imre. "Crude Aesthetics." In A Companion to Contemporary Documentary Film, 28–42. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118884584.ch1.
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French, Lisa. "Aesthetics and the Influence of Gender." In The Female Gaze in Documentary Film, 71–90. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68094-7_4.
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French, Lisa. "Marie Mandy: Female Subjectivity and Aesthetics." In The Female Gaze in Documentary Film, 177–97. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68094-7_9.
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Bal, Mieke. "Documenting What? Auto-Theory and Migratory Aesthetics." In A Companion to Contemporary Documentary Film, 124–44. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118884584.ch6.
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Beckford, Robert. "Black Suit Matters: Faith, Politics, and Representation in the Religious Documentary." In Black Religion and Aesthetics, 135–51. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230622944_8.
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Diniz, Debora. "The House of the Dead—The Ethics and Aesthetics of Documentary." In Ethics and the Arts, 79–87. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8816-8_8.
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Gustafsson, Tommy. "Performativity and documentary aesthetics in Staffan Hildebrand’s earliest conference films on AIDS in the 1980s." In A Visual History of HIV/AIDS, 73–89. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315145310-6.
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García-Mainar, Luis M. "A Documentary Aesthetic of Helplessness." In The Introspective Realist Crime Film, 107–40. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49653-9_5.
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Schiwy, Freya. "An Other Documentary Is Possible: Indy Solidarity Video and Aesthetic Politics." In New Documentaries in Latin America, 145–65. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137291349_9.
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Tay, Sharon Lin. "On the Edges of the Documentary: Jill Craigie’s Political and Aesthetic Sensibilities." In Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices, 42–60. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230250543_3.
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Fan, Liu, and Zhang Yansong. "Research on the “Instantaneity” of Documentary Photography from the Perspective of Reception Aesthetics." In 2021 International Conference on Modern Educational Technology and Social Sciences (ICMETSS 2021). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210824.032.
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Seiça, Mariana, Pedro Martins, Licínio Roque, and F. Amílcar Cardoso. "A Sonification Experience to Portray the Sounds of Portuguese Consumption Habits." In ICAD 2019: The 25th International Conference on Auditory Display. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Northumbria University, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.21785/icad2019.050.
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The stimuli for consumption is present in everyday life, where major retail companies play a role in providing a large range of products every single day. Using sonification techniques, we present a listening experiment of Portuguese consumption habits in the course of ten days, gathered from a Portuguese retail company. We focused on how to represent this time-series data as a musical piece that would engage the listener’s attention and promote an active listening attitude, exploring the influence of aesthetics in the perception of auditory displays. Through a phenomenological approach, ten participants were interviewed to gather perceptions evoked by the piece, and how the consumption variations were un-derstood. The tested composition revealed relevant associations about the data, with the consumption context indirectly present throughout the emerging themes: from the idea of everyday life, routine and consumption peaks to aesthetic aspects as the passage of time, frenzy and consumerism. Documentary, movie imagery and soundtrack were also perceived. Several musical aspects were also mentioned, as the constant, steady rhythm and the repetitive nature of the composition, and sensations such as pleasantness, sat-isfaction, annoyance, boredom and anxiety. These collected topics convey the incessant feeling and consumption needs which portray our present society, offering new paths for comprehending musical sound perception and consequent exploration.
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Nguyen Thi, Dung. "The World Miraculous Characters in Vietnamese Fairy Tales Aspect of Languages – Ethnic in Scene South East Asia Region." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.13-1.
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Like other genres of folk literature, fairy tales of Vietnamese ethnicity with miraculous character systems become strongly influenced by Southeast Asia’s historical-cultural region. Apart from being influenced by farming, Buddhism, Confucianism, urbanism, Vietnamese fairy tales are deeply influenced by ethno-linguistic elements. Consequently, fairy tales do not preserve their root identities, but shift and emerge over time. The study investigates and classifies the miraculous tales of peoples of Vietnam with strange characters (fairies, gods, Buddha, devils) in linguistic and ethnographic groups, and in high-to-low ratios. Here the study expands on, evaluates, correlates, and differentiates global miraculous characters, and describes influences of creation of miraculous characters in these fairy tales. The author affirms the value of this character system within the fairy tales, and develops conceptions of global aesthetic views. To conduct the research, the author applies statistical methods, documentary surveys, type comparison methods, systematic approaches, synthetic analysis methods, and interdisciplinary methods (cultural studies, ethnography, psychoanalysis). The author conducted a reading of and referring to the miraculous fairy tales of the peoples of Vietnam with strange characters. 250 fairy tales were selected from 32 ethnic groups of Vietnam, which have the most types of miraculous characters, classifying these according to respective language groups, through an ethnography. The author compares sources to determine characteristics of each miraculous character, and employs system methods to understand the components of characters. The author analyzes and evaluates the results based on the results of the survey and classification. Within the framework of the article, the author focuses on the following two issues; some general features of the geographical conditions and history of Vietnam in the context of Southeast Asia’s ancient and medieval periods were observed; a survey was conducted of results of virtual characters in the fairy tales of Vietnam from the perspective of language, yet accomplished through an ethnography. The results of the study indicate a calculation and quantification of magical characters in the fairy tales of Vietnamese. This study contributes to the field of Linguistic Anthropology in that it presents the first work to address the system of virtual characters in the fairy tales of Vietnam in terms of language, while it surveys different types of material, origins formed, and so forth.
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Aristizábal, José Antonio. "HUMBERTO RIVAS, DESDE LO ROMÁNTICO Y LO SINIESTRO. HUMBERTO RIVAS FROM THE ROMANTIC AND THE SINISTER." In I Congreso Internacional sobre Fotografia: Nuevas propuestas en Investigacion y Docencia de la Fotografia. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/cifo17.2017.6880.
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Palabras clave:Fotografía, estética, Humberto Rivas, Rafael Argullol, Eugenio Trías.Keywords: Photography, esthetic, Humberto Rivas, Rafael Argullol, Eugenio Trías.Resumen:El siguiente artículo busca dar una lectura a la obra del fotógrafo Humberto Rivas, Premio Nacional de Fotografía y unos de los mayores exponentes de la fotografía española de finales del siglo XX. Se parte de la convicción de que hace falta ubicar a Humberto Rivas en una tradición de pensamiento estético, ya que las distintas lecturas que existen sobre su trabajo, aunque importantes, no han dejado de ser lecturas impresionistas que no han reflexionado en profundidad sobre su obra. Este artículo trata de ver a Rivas a partir de unas categorías estéticas. Para ello se remite a las reflexiones de Rafael Argullol para distinguir aquello propio del artista romántico, y a las aportaciones filosóficas de Eugenio Trías acerca de lo siniestro en la obra de arte, y las vincula a la obra de Humberto Rivas. La hipótesis inicial es de que Rivas no se sentía como un fotógrafo que atrapa momentos o documenta acontecimientos, sino como un creador, y su obra es resultado de un artista que se repliega sobre sí mismo con la intención de producir una imagen reflejo de su mundo interior, la cual se puede explicar desde la mente del artista romántico, aunque el contexto no sea el romanticismo. Por último, aunque el artículo hable sobre Humberto Rivas, también es una manera de construir un relato entre la imagen fotográfica y distintos valores estéticos que hacen parte la historia del arte. Abstract:The following article seeks to give a reading to the work of photographer Humberto Rivas, National Photography Prize and one of the greatest exponents of Spanish photography at the end of the 20th century. It is based on the conviction that it is necessary to locate Humberto Rivas in a translation of aesthetic thought, since the different readings that exist on his work, although important, have not ceased to be Impressionist readings that have not reflected in depth on his work . This article tries to see Rivas from some aesthetic categories. For this he refers to the reflections of Rafael Argullol to distinguish that of the romantic artist and the philosophical contributions of Eugenio Trías about the sinister in the work of art, and links them to the work of Humberto Rivas. The initial hypothesis is that Rivas did not feel like a photographer who catches moments or documents events, but as a creator, and his work is the result of an artist who recoils on himself with the intention of producing a reflex image of Its inner world, which can be explained, from the mind of the romantic artist although the context is not romanticism. Finally, although the article talks about Humberto Rivas, it is also a way to build a narrative between the photographic image and the values that have served to interpret painting or sculpture in the history of art.