Constructions of the Real

List of Figures

Foreword

Judith Aston and Stefano Odorico

Thinking through Making in Non-Fiction Film

Christine Rogers, Kim Munro, Liz Burke and Catherine Gough-Brady





PART 1: THIS LENS MY EYE: FIRST PERSON, ETHNOGRAPHIC AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FILMMAKING

Christine Rogers

1. The Enigma of Film - 'Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary'

Jeni Thornley

2. Psychogeographical Choreography: On Filming Hand-Held

Masha Vlasova

3. Remaking Absurd Pictures

Rebecca Ora/rora

4. Creating/Recreating Memory: Cultural Menstruation Rituals through the Making of the Hybrid Documentary Big Girl

Sheersha Perera

5. Phantom Limbs and Failed Messages: A Phenomenological Provocation of First Person Film

Joanna Callaghan

6. Korimako and Macrocarpa Trees: Exploring Maori Experiences of Place through a Lens

Christine Rogers



PART 2: CONTESTED PLACES: FROM COLONIZATION TO CO-CREATION

Kim Munro

7. Interrogating Power and Unsettling Relations to Place in Documentary

Elizabeth Miller and Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz

8. Acclimations: Speculations on Making Documentary in the Climate Emergency

Kim Munro

9. In Search of Ambiguity

Philip Cartelli

10. Can Sound Be Used to Challenge the Colonial Legacies of Silent Archival Film?

Robert Hardcastle

11. Fraught Narratives, Archival Traces: Documentary Experiments in Carceral History

Alexander Johnston





PART 3: THE EXPANDED ESSAY FILM: THINKING WITH IMAGES AND SOUNDS

Liz Burke

12. Cinematic Aesthetics of Resistance: Reframing the Non-fiction Oppositional Film

Jill Daniels

13. Flaunting Artifice: Restaging History as Critical Fabulation in The Deathless Woman

Roz Mortimer

14. Tracing Yugoslavia: The Use of Narrative Time and Narrative Space to Re-Vision a Disappeared lieux de memoire (Memory-Site)

Mila Turajlic

15. The Creative Ti(d)es of Sea-Changes: Musings on the Making of an Eco-Avant-Doc

Gerda Cammaer

16. Weaving Fragments Together: Narrative and the Korsakow-Based Film

Liz Burke

17. The Expanded Essay Film: The Researcher-Filmmaker as a Topographical Thinker

Elisabeth Brun



PART 4: NOTICING THE FRAME AND THE FORM

Catherine Gough-Brady

18. Refugee Filmmaking: Finding Agency through the Lens

Kaveh Abbasian

19. Passeio Publico: The Life of Images and the Irresistible Fascination of Archival Film

Andrea Franca and Nicholas Andueza

20. #PrecarityStory: Academic Casualization and Feminist Filmmaking



Lorena Cervera and Isabel Segui



21. Exploring Viewer Positioning and Attention Cues in a Cinematic Virtual Reality Documentary: A Creative Research Project

Kath Dooley

22. Not Another Moment of Your Salvation: Documentary, Art Practice and Their Empathic Misadventures

Minou Norouzi

23. Three Questions: A Practitioner's Approach to the Documentary Form

Catherine Gough-Brady



Notes on Contributors