Module description & objectives
This module explores the forms and practices of ‘creative documentary’ that regards documentary as artistic expression with strong social, cultural, political and ecological values, and creative documentary filmmakers as artists and researchers.
Challenging some of the key tenets and ideas of documentary, including
notions of truth, reality, transparency, objectivity and representational performativity, in this module, we push the boundaries of the documentary and nonfiction film form. We will explore many different registers of documentary and nonfiction film practice, from embodied filmmaking, personal documentary, essay film, performative documentary, and the use of archival and found footage in film. We aim to develop your understanding of documentary as a creative research practice, and a moving image art form to explore, interrogate, and making meanings of the contemporary world.
Our interest is in filmmakers who transgress aesthetic, cultural and social norms, opening
up a space that gives rise to behavioural difference. The films you will be exposed to either challenge, disregard or mix and match traditional modes, or move beyond humans to nonhuman things and spaces. Examining unorthodox modes of nonfiction filmmaking will help to enhance and reconfigure your own documentary practices, and enable you to take risks and test out new theoretical, aesthetic and rhetorical strategies in your production work.
This module explores the forms and practices of ‘creative documentary’ that regards documentary as artistic expression with strong social, cultural, political and ecological values, and creative documentary filmmakers as artists and researchers.
Challenging some of the key tenets and ideas of documentary, including
notions of truth, reality, transparency, objectivity and representational performativity, in this module, we push the boundaries of the documentary and nonfiction film form. We will explore many different registers of documentary and nonfiction film practice, from embodied filmmaking, personal documentary, essay film, performative documentary, and the use of archival and found footage in film. We aim to develop your understanding of documentary as a creative research practice, and a moving image art form to explore, interrogate, and making meanings of the contemporary world.
Our interest is in filmmakers who transgress aesthetic, cultural and social norms, opening
up a space that gives rise to behavioural difference. The films you will be exposed to either challenge, disregard or mix and match traditional modes, or move beyond humans to nonhuman things and spaces. Examining unorthodox modes of nonfiction filmmaking will help to enhance and reconfigure your own documentary practices, and enable you to take risks and test out new theoretical, aesthetic and rhetorical strategies in your production work.
