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Frost, Stephen. "Natural Bridge: Environmental Art in New Media Documentary." Thesis, Griffith University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367220.
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The Natural Bridge Project is a pilot study into design form as it applies to the Digital Media Documentation of Environmental Art. This component of the project aims to develop a new form of New Media Art Documentary that will help urban people reconnect with the natural environment.
The project throws doubt on existing assumptions surrounding “connectivity” via the Internet and the positive attributes of social media. It argues that social media actually disconnects people from each other and from the natural environment. In an attempt to offer a solution to this problem, the Natural Bridge Project seeks ways to use digital media not as a marketing tool but rather as a way to promote wellbeing through an appreciation of the natural environment through art.
It begins by studying the design of documentary films on art and identifies two dominant design formulas. It finds that one formula is primarily concerned with commerce and the other with ideology. The research then identifies “content-driven” design, as espoused by the Program for Art on Film (a joint venture between the New York Metropolitan Museum and the J.P. Getty Trust), as a viable alternative but discovers that the Program has not conducted studies into the practical application of content- driven design.Thesis (Professional Doctorate)
Doctor of Visual Arts (DVA)
Queensland College of Art
Arts, Education and Law
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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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Opal, Jack A. "Rethinking Documentary Photography: Documentary and Politics in Times of Riots and Uprisings." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1366971692.
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Bell, Leah Helanie. "Documentary Film: Access Denied." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5329/.
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Sculptor Eric McGehearty incorporates dyslexia, a learning disability, into his artwork to express his challenges with his limited ability to recognize and understand the written word. The film Access Denied focuses on Eric and his disability. Recognized in 1896, dyslexia has been studied and researched by scientists and educators. New assistive technology is now available to aid dyslexics in reading and writing. Specialized schools provide techniques to improve student learning. However, some options are not readily available to the general public; therefore, information about how to deal with the disability is not easily accessed. The aims of this documentary are to raise awareness of available resources to assist with learning as well as to demonstrate a relationship between art and dyslexia.
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Clausen, Barbara. "Staging the documentary." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-172646.
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Barbara Clausen thinks about the relationship between experience and knowledge in curating performance art. She will in particular explain her curatorial work on Babette Mangolte's first international solo exhibition which took place at the VOX center for contemporary art in Montreal in 2013. This exhibition and film retrospective showcased Mangolte's various practices and modes of production, as one of the key chroniclers of 1970s performance in dance, visual arts and theater, ranging from early archival works to new site specific multi-media installations. Clausen will consider the complexity of Mangolte's practices in light of the current processes of change that are taking hold in the visual politics of performance arts’ past and present.
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Fossen, Pamela, and n/a. "Errol Morris and the art of history." University of Otago. Department of Media, Film and Communication, 2009. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20091001.154456.
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The work of documentary director Errol Morris can be approached in a variety of ways as it intersects and engages with many of the major themes of film and television scholarship - genre, authorship, and historical representation. But while his films and television episodes expose debates within film and documentary studies, they also call up major elements of postmodern debates within the historical discipline. Morris makes historical documentaries that do not simply render a (hi)story visually; he also attempts to draw viewers' attention to the conventions and construction of both visual media and of history. His work reveals both his keen awareness of postmodern historical debates, and a willingness to play, to confront basic assumptions, question boundaries, and to contribute to those debates.
In 'Errol Morris and the Art of History', I argue that Morris is a visual historian; his films and television episodes draw as much from his understanding of historiographical debates as they do from his knowledge and artistic approach to visual media. All of Morris' work challenges the notion of objectivity in both documentary filmmaking and history; he attempts to illuminate the limits and conventions of visual depictions of history; he uses strategies to denaturalise historical and narrative construction, the naturalising tendencies of visual media, and the conventions of documentary practice; and he attempts to promote increased critical reflection. This thesis closely examines Morris' documentary films and television episodes to consider the structure and strategies that characterise his work, and situate it within contemporary film and historical debates. I explore Morris' methods and approach to documentary and history, showing how his work relates to postmodern history debates, to written and visual representations of history, and to documentary history and theory, including more recent factual forms like reality television.
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Berigny, Wall Caitilin de. "Documentary transforms into video installation via the processes of intertextuality and detournement /." Canberra : University of Canberra, 2006. http://erl.canberra.edu.au/public/adt-AUC20070723.103335/index.html.
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Thesis (PhD) -- University of Canberra, 2007.Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Canberra, May 2007. Includes filmography (leaves 124-126) and bibliography (leaves 130-136). Also available online.
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Lee, Hyunseok. "Representing Korean Buddhist art and architecture : a 3D animated documentary installation." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2011. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/9420.
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This practice-led research One Mind - seeks to represent Korean Buddhist architectural aesthetics and Buddhist spiritual ideas using the animated documentary genre as a form of creative representation. It is intended that the piece be shown either as an installation in a gallery, or within a museum or cultural exhibition context. The key goal is to offer this digital artwork to European audiences, in a spirit of engendering the same feeling state as when present in the real monastery, encouraging an understanding of the sacred, and experiencing a form of transcendence. My art work in some ways functions as a digital restoration of sacred architecture outside its real environment and context, and seeks to document cultural heritage and knowledge. One Mind is different from a classic form of documentary, though, because it does not echo the idea of documentary based on live-action footage as a mode of non-fiction record and expression. I have particularly stressed the suggestiveness of the architectural aesthetics and the philosophic principles embedded in the environment. I have sought to bring my own subjective artistic interpretation to Korean Buddhism accordingly, resisting typical character animation and classical narrative, seeking instead, to encourage the viewer to be part of the environment. I focus on the meaning in Buddhist buildings and the landscape they are part of, and dramatise the environment, using the poetic tone of the voice over performance, the sound track of Buddhist chanting, and the visual effects and perspectives of computer generated imagery. This digital visualisation of the Buddhist s spiritual world is informed by a Buddhist s traditional way of life, but, most importantly, by my own past experience, feelings and memory of the Buddhist monastery compound, as a practising artist. My thesis is categorised into eight chapters. Chapter One offers an overview of the aims and objectives of my project. Chapter Two identifies my research questions and my intended methodology. Chapter Three focuses on important background knowledge about Korea s natural and cultural aspects and conditions. Chapter Four offers an analysis of the issue of the Korean cultural identity, suggesting that a more authentic image of Korea and Korean-ness is available in the philosophy and spiritual agenda of Buddhism. Chapter Five addresses the practical ways in which digital restoration of architecture has taken place, identifying three previous cases which both resemble and differ from my own project. Chapter Six looks at the specific characteristics of Korean Seon Buddhism and architecture, and engages with three theoretical approaches about the spatial composition of the monastery, and the ways it may help in constructing the monastery in a digital environment. Chapter Seven offers an evaluation and validation of my artwork, having adopted the approach of creating an animated spiritual documentary to reveal Buddhist philosophy and experience as a model of Korean cultural identity. Chapter Eight offers some conclusions about my intention, process and outcomes.
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Ehrlich, Nea E. "Animated realities : from animated documentaries to documentary animation." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25699.
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My thesis on contemporary animated documentaries links new media aesthetics with the documentary turn in contemporary visual culture. Drawing from the fields of Contemporary Art, Animation, Film Studies and Gaming Theory, my aim has been to explore the development of animated documentaries in the context of animation's intersection with other visual fields in a very specific technological moment of the past two decades in order to broaden the scope within which animation is analysed and understood. The starting point of my research was the widely accepted divide assumed to exist between animation and documentary. I, however, claim that the supposedly contradictory nature of animated documentaries can no longer be considered a given. Despite the potentially challenging reception of animated documentaries, it is important to identify what it is that the animated image contributes to documentary, which is the visualisation of what is otherwise un-representable. My thesis investigates a new area of the intangible, focusing on the virtualisation of culture rather than on subjective or imaginary aspects of documentary works and visual interpretations. This cultural shift consequently requires new aesthetics of documentation that exceed the capacities of the photographic. My main argument is that due to contemporary technological changes, animation has permeated real contexts of daily life to the extent that it has become disassociated from the realm of fiction. Rather, in altering the way viewers are becoming accustomed to observing, learning about and connecting with reality, animation has brought about a constitutive change in ways of seeing one's world. This change can be described as animation’s impact on the relation between visual signification and believability. It is this which necessitates a reconsideration of what shapes a sense of realism in documentaries today. My research therefore culminates with new conceptualisations concerning the cultural role of animation, introducing what I argue is the formation of the "animated document" and "documentary animation". In these contexts, animation is no longer an interpretive visualisation substituting for photography but a direct capturing of animated realities. Animation thus expands what is considered to constitute reality and, as a result, also destabilises assumptions about the perceived conflict between animation and documentary, widening the sphere of documentary aesthetics.
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Opal, Jack A. "Documentary Photography and the Edge of the Sword." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1492608162938188.
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Mendoza, Darwin Y. "Theorizing on Honduran Social Documentary." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1268429222.
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Lang, Ian William, and n/a. "Conditional Truths: Remapping Paths To Documentary 'Independence'." Griffith University. Queensland College of Art, 2003. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20031112.105737.
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(Synopsis to introductory statement): An introductory statement to five documentary films made by Ian Lang in Australia between 1981 and 1997 exemplifying a 'democratising' model of sustainable and ethical documentary film production. This document critically reflects on the production process of these films to accompany their submission for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Publication at Griffith University. It finds that a contemporary tendency towards 'post-industrial' conditions allows an observational film-maker to negotiate a critical inter-dependence rather than a romantically conceived 'independence' traditional to the genre. [Full thesis consists of introductory statement plus six DVD videodiscs.]
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Lang, Ian William. "Conditional Truths: Remapping Paths To Documentary 'Independence'." Thesis, Griffith University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367923.
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(Synopsis to introductory statement): An introductory statement to five documentary films made by Ian Lang in Australia between 1981 and 1997 exemplifying a 'democratising' model of sustainable and ethical documentary film production. This document critically reflects on the production process of these films to accompany their submission for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Publication at Griffith University. It finds that a contemporary tendency towards 'post-industrial' conditions allows an observational film-maker to negotiate a critical inter-dependence rather than a romantically conceived 'independence' traditional to the genre. [Full thesis consists of introductory statement plus six DVD videodiscs.]Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy by Publication (PhD)
Queensland College of Art
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Hart, Phoebe. "Orchids : intersex and identity in documentary." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/29712/25/Phoebe_Hart_Thesis_redacted.pdf.
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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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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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Marley, K. "The art of fact : an exploration of the relationship between theory and practice in documentary filmmaking." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2017. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/7607/.
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This practice led thesis is an exploration of the ways in which theory can inform practice in documentary filmmaking. Section 1 of the thesis provides an embedded review of literature in order to offer the reader a critical evaluation of the theoretical debates that have informed my documentary practice. This section analyses issues associated with definitional debates on documentary film, while also addressing the formal features associated with what Bill Nichols (1991; 2001) called modes of documentary. The work of particular filmmakers will be discussed, namely Dziga Vertov, Jean Rouch and the city symphony makers of the early 20th century, in relation to how their ideas and film work have had a major impact on my own approach to filmmaking. Section 2 is the practical portfolio of work itself and acts as an exploration of theory within a practical context. The audio-visual texts include, A Film About Nice (2010), a dawn-to-dusk city symphony, which focuses on capturing the everyday life of a European city. It echoes the tradition of the City Symphony makers of the early 20th Century, however the significant difference here is that I explore some of the visual techniques adopted by the filmmakers and explore them within a sonic context. This film can be seen as an exploration of the impact rhythm has on signification within film. Mechanized Deconstruction (2011) is a recording of a live performance at Documentary Now 2011. This was my first venture into producing documentary films within a live context, via the use of DJ/VJ technologies. There is a cine-poem, which acts as a collaborative approach to documentary, combining the work of the poet and the work of the filmmaker. It also acts an example of how some of the techniques I have developed during the live performance of documentary have had an impact on the documentary films that I have since produced. The Mill (2016) adopts a similar structure to The City Symphony, however this film can be seen as an Industrial Symphony, in that the focus here is on the rhythm, movement and the sonic dimension of the machine. In many ways this film can be seen as that which encapsulates the essence of the formalist approach I adopt when producing documentary films. Driven By Machines (2017) uses footage from The Mill and provides an example of how a filmmaker can de-familiarize actuality footage through post-production technique. This film acts as an ode to the abstract filmmakers such as Man Ray, Len Lye, Viking Eggelling and Hans Richter, all of who used actuality footage and abstracted this footage through manipulation techniques available to them at the time. In summary, Section 2 acts as an audio-visual explication of theory within a practical context. Section 3 is a critical reflection of the practical portfolio of work. Here I aim to explain how I have used certain filmmaking techniques as a way of exploring some of the theoretical concepts outlined in Section 1. This offers the reader an opportunity to gain insight into how theory can inform practice; as such the reader of my films is able to gain insight into authorial intention, therefore the reader is able to make a more informed analysis of my practical portfolio.
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Kuo, Yen-Ting. "Social Responsibility and Aesthetics: The Function of Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Taiwan." Thesis, Griffith University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367473.
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Since the lifting of martial law in 1987, documentary production in contemporary Taiwan has experienced considerable change. Arguably, the most significant of these changes — the development of an independent documentary sector — can be understood as part of wider social, economic, political and cultural developments in the Republic of China. From 1949 until the late 1980s, most documentary production in the Republic had reflected the ideologies and didactic nature of the paternalist
Nationalist Party government. During these years, the documentary typically functioned to glorify the government in the eyes of the population and, while there were a small number of exceptions, most of these productions were, in essence, little more than propaganda. While documentary filmmaking in Taiwan is still subject to social, political and economic constraints, since 1987 it has demonstrably displayed more diverse approaches in production and aesthetics. Increasingly, the documentary
film has been regarded as an instrument to enlighten the outlook of the people and to pave the way for dialogue between the officials, filmmakers and citizens. Arguably, these changes reflect a movement away from bureaucratic insecurity towards a more dynamic representation of the possibilities of Taiwanese democracy and social reform.
This research explores the experiences and strategies of nine independent documentary filmmakers who have operated in Taiwan during this period of demonstrable change. The research, which combines a written dissertation and a body of video-documentation, sets out to investigate how these shifts in documentary style, function and project may be characterised and to consider how these changes have been influenced by and contributed to the development of social critique in
contemporary Taiwan. It has also created a set of audiovisual interviews and transcripts available for other researchers in the field. The study aims to add to the growing literature on Chinese independent documentary filmmaking and contributes to an international literature on the dynamic variety of the documentary project.Thesis (Professional Doctorate)
Doctor of Visual Arts (DVA)
Queensland College of Art
Arts, Education and Law
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Žadeikytė, Asta. "Dokumentinis eksperimentinis filmas." Bachelor's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2010. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2010~D_20100903_081950-92964.
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Diplominiame darbe „Eksperimentinis dokumentinis filmas“, nagrinėjama kaip dokumentinis kino žanras, perteikia realybę ekrane, kiek tiksliai ir nuosekliai dokumentiniai filmai sugeba fiksuoti realų gyvenimą. Dokumentinio žanro pakilimas, prasidėjo nuo XXI a. ir žengė koja kojon su dokumentalumo stiprėjimu šiuolaikiniame mene. Tai nurodo bendrumą tarp videomeno ir dokumentinio kino žanro. Menininkai norėdami išplėsti dokumentinio kino reprezentacijos rėmus pradėjo eksperimentuotu su dokumentinio kino raiška. Eksperimentai videomene ir dokumentiniame kine prasideda nuo bendro pagrindo – dokumentinio kino kalbos. Videomeninkai naudodami dokumentinio kino kalbas, sukuria realistinę atmosferą savo filmuose, eksperimentuodami menininkai nori pasakyti, kad ne tik standartinė dokumentinio kino raiška gali atspindėti realybę. Dokumentiniame videomene eksperimentės strategijos yra dokumentalumo sampratos laužymas ir kvestionavimas. Diplominiame darbe siekiama išanalizuoti videomeninkų eksperimentus su dokumentinio kino kalba ir kaip baigiamą rezultatą sukuti eksperimentinį dokumentinį filmą apie emigrantę iš Lietuvos.Work "Experimental documentary film", examines how the documentary film genre, record and represent the reality on the screen, as an objective documentary shots may reflect real life. Strengthening of a documentary genre that began in the twenty-first century, entered and was held in conjunction with documentary brightening discourse in contemporary art. It encourages the consideration of video art and documentary genres in close contact. While artists can‘t fit representation in documentary film frames, experiment with the documentary film resolution and try to expand. Experimental video art and documentary cinema took off from the same ground - a documentary film language, it has become a constant of real representation on the screen. Video artists taking over the documentary film strategies, wants to create a realistic atmosphere of his films, with experiments artists wants to update the definition of documentary, through an extraordinary visual material, as the documentary shots, who pretends to be a direct reflection of reality, also mediated images. My work aims to analyze video artists experiments with language and as a culminating result create documentary film about the emigration from Lithuania.
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Matzke, Alex. "If She Isn’t Working Miracles, What Is She Doing On The Battlefield?" VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4259.
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The images included in my thesis work reflect my experience growing up with military propaganda—pictures of cheerful white women in pearls as part of my rural middle American landscape. I do not name the oppressor because I am not here to pick at the thorns, but to get to the root of the oppression. These are some of the servicewomen I’ve met. Their stories parallel but cannot encompass the private experiences of all service women. I am grateful for their generosity; without them there would be no pictures.
The battle for equality is much older than Rosie the Riveter but we still ask the same questions we asked Joan of Arc in the 15th century: if she isn’t working miracles, what is she doing on the battlefield?
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Rose, Kathleen A. "Environment "atmosphere" /." Online version of thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11084.
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McNiven, Andrew. "‘Monkey Business’ : an artist’s action research into the parameters of temporary gallery installation through reflexive formal and informal documentary practice." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2010. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/985/.
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The term ‘installation’, referring to both process and product, is a significant component of contemporary fine art practice and the working lives of those involved. Consequently ‘installation’ can be seen as a domain of both fine art professional development and practice-led research. However, as art historian Mary Ann Staniszewski has observed (1998), the implication is that as process, this is an underresearched field of knowledge and this Ph.D. is an attempt, through a thesis and a body of practical work, to address this omission. Writing as an artist with significant experience as a technician, the thesis explores the insights that inform the work of technicians, using related theoretical concepts which map the conditions particular to the processes of installation: that of exhibits being subject to a binary condition, which I term ‘proper/improper’, and the concept of ‘tacit knowing’, developed by Michael Polyani (1966) as an index of specialist embedded understanding. Both ‘proper/improper’ and ‘tacit knowing’ are concealed by the sense of what I term ‘effortlessness’ that makes displayed objects part of an immutable fabric of exhibition culture. This is, in turn, compounded by the photographic ‘installation shot’, a form of documentation that, for commentators such as the writer and artist Brian O’Doherty (1976), creates idealized images of artworks. In reflecting upon the action research I have undertaken in order to penetrate the idealized surface of the ‘installation shot’, the thesis journeys from the visual to the aural in order to open up the ‘sensual 7 culture’ (Howes, 2005) around ‘installation’. Although not directly settingout to respond to Staniszewski’s proposition, the experiments with sound practice described and exhibited do, I claim, offer a creative response to our amnesia and an unfolding re-presentation of the processes and conditions of exhibition as it is currently experienced throughout museum and gallery culture.
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Moore, Andrew Benjamin. "A documentary like no other? : Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab, embodied knowledge & the art of non-fiction film." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/19989/.
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This thesis explores the relationship between cinematic techniques and forms of knowledge in the non-fiction film. The purpose of many documentary films is to convey knowledge about the world to the viewer. But the degree of emphasis on this function varies enormously from film to film. The kind of knowledge that a documentary provides also shifts depending on what formal strategies it employs. The films produced by Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL), claimed by some commentators to represent a radical new form of documentary filmmaking, often eschew the epistemic and didactic function that is often associated with the documentary in favour of providing a more immediate, intimate and sensuous representation of particular locales and environments. Their emphasis on the material, physical, affective and sensuous qualities of lived experience suggests that SEL filmmakers are interested in conveying a different kind of knowledge, one that cannot be reduced to words or easily communicated with propositional statements. This thesis contributes to and expands upon existing scholarship on the relationship between film form and knowledge production and transmission, and counters the discourse of newness that has surrounded the SEL, by analysing the relationship between the cinematic techniques and ways of knowing of a number of important precursors to two of the lab’s key works: Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash’s Sweetgrass (2009) and Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s Leviathan (2012). Finally, this thesis provides new analyses of these two SEL films, informed by this historical overview. It argues that the different ideas about the epistemological function of the moving image embodied in the earlier filmmaking activity have fed into the philosophy and praxis of these two films. Finally, the study concludes that the kind of knowledge that Sweetgrass and Leviathan convey can be thought of as an ‘embodied knowledge’, and it argues that it is through the use of what Laura Marks calls ‘haptic’ audiovisual strategies that these films are able to convey this kind of knowledge.
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Martin, Julie. "Documenter le monde à l'ère des images fluides : stratégies artistiques." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019TOU20078.
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Cette recherche en art et sciences de l’art porte sur les pratiques d’artistes qui documentent l’histoire récente ou l’actualité, dans un environnement déjà intensément traversé de flux d’images, consécutivement à une connexion généralisée à Internet. L'étude s’appuie sur un corpus d’œuvres réalisées depuis 2005 par une douzaine d’artistes et adopte quatre points de vue successifs : celui de l’héritage historique et conceptuel, celui de la médialité, celui du positionnement artistique et celui de la portée politique des œuvres. L’analyse du contexte théorique et historique antérieur aux démarches artistiques étudiées révèle que les artistes concernés ne tentent pas de penser le contemporain sous l’angle de l’innovation ou de réagir par la tactique de la tabula rasa. Ceux-ci entreprennent au contraire de l’aborder par des stratégies qui échappent au temps historicisé, semblables aux démarches médiarchéologistes. L’approche médiale permet d’identifier des logiques néomédiatiques adoptées dans les œuvres documentaires, notamment l’intermédialité, la variabilité et la remédiation. Avec cette dernière, les artistes s’avèrent intégrer au sein de leurs productions des médias de diffusion des images pour rendre visible leur influence sur notre perception du monde et les révéler en tant que dispositifs à subvertir. Par ailleurs, en s’employant à créer des représentations et des récits du réel, les artistes qui les produisent semblent ne pas laisser aux seuls professionnels des médias d’information cette prérogative. Néanmoins, tout en empruntant leur démarche au journaliste et à l’enquêteur, les artistes prennent soin de rompre avec les certitudes auxquelles prétendent les discours journalistiques, en ayant recours à d’autres tactiques dont la plus singulière consiste à altérer visuellement les représentations. Enfin, au-delà des sujets et des approches qui peuvent être très critiques, il apparaît possible de caractériser différemment l’implication politique de ces œuvres et de mettre à jour, à l’ère de l’image fluide, une responsabilité éthique en actes artistiquesThis research in art and sciences of art focuses on artistic practices which document recent history or current events, in an environment already saturated by image streams, resulting from a general connection to the Internet. The study is based on a core of works made since 2005 by a dozen artists and follows four successive points of view: one of historical and conceptual heritage, one of mediality, one of artistic position and one of the political scope of the artworks. The analysis of the theoretical and historical context prior to the studied artistic approaches reveals that the artists concerned do not try to think of the contemporary in terms of innovation, let alone reacting by the tactics of tabula rasa. On the contrary, they tackle it with strategies that are not bound by historicised, sequential, and linear time, similar to mediarchaeologic approaches. The medial approach makes it possible to confronted neomediatic logics adopted in documentary works, particularly intermediality, variability and remediation. With remediation, artists integrate within their productions broadcast media images to make visible their influence on our perception of the world and reveal them as an appartus to be subverted. Moreover, by working to create representations and narratives of the real, the artists who produce them appear not to leave the prerogativeto the professionals of the media of information and communication.Nevertheless, while borrowing their approach from the journalist and the investigator, the artists do not pursue the same ends and break away from the certainties that the journalistic narratives claim, by resorting to other tactics of which the most unique is to visually alter the picture. Finally, beyond the topics and approaches that can be very critical, it seems possible to characterisedifferently the political involvement of these works and to update, in the era of the fluid image, an ethical responsibility of the artist that translates into artistic acts
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Clausen, Barbara. "Staging the documentary: Babette Mangolte and the curatorial ‘dispositif’ of performance’s histories." map - media archive performance ; 2014/5 (E-Journal, URL: http://www.perfomap.de, ISSN 2191-0901), 2014. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A7328.
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Barbara Clausen thinks about the relationship between experience and knowledge in curating performance art. She will in particular explain her curatorial work on Babette Mangolte''s first international solo exhibition which took place at the VOX center for contemporary art in Montreal in 2013. This exhibition and film retrospective showcased Mangolte''s various practices and modes of production, as one of the key chroniclers of 1970s performance in dance, visual arts and theater, ranging from early archival works to new site specific multi-media installations. Clausen will consider the complexity of Mangolte''s practices in light of the current processes of change that are taking hold in the visual politics of performance arts’ past and present.
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Coombs, Neil. "The communicating village : Humphrey Jennings and surrealism." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2014. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/4326/.
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This thesis examines the films of Humphrey Jennings, exploring his work in relation to surrealism. This examination provides an overview of how surrealism’s set of ideas is manifest in Jennings’s documentary film work. The thesis does not assert that his films are surrealist texts or that there is such a thing as a surrealist film; rather it explores how his films, produced in Britain in the period from 1936 to 1950, have a dialectical relationship with surrealism. The thesis first considers Jennings’s work in relation to documentary theory, outlining how and why he is considered a significant filmmaker in the documentary field. It then goes on to consider Jennings’s engagement with surrealism in Britain in the years prior to World War Two. The thesis identifies three paradoxes relating to surrealism in Britain, using these to explore surrealism as an aura that can be read in the films of Jennings. The thesis explores three active phases of Jennings’s film work, each phase culminating in a key film. It acknowledges that Spare Time (1939) and Listen to Britain (1942) are key films in Jennings’s oeuvre, examining these two films and then emphasising the importance of a third, previously generally overlooked, film, The Silent Village (1943). These explorations allow an examination of the way that Jennings’s films articulate the relationship between surrealism and the everyday, the sublime and the uncanny. The thesis asserts that there is a specifically British form of surrealism that has developed from the historical situation of Britain in the period from 1936 to 1946, one that draws from the national identity of Britain. The symbolic domain of British surrealism and its praxis can read in the films of Jennings and the auratic traces of Jennings’s films thread through the work of subsequent filmmakers. This thesis describes these traces as the communicating village. The thesis’s consideration of Jennings’s films in relation to surrealism offers a means by which to examine the work of subsequent filmmakers and to assess the importance of surrealism to British cinema.
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Asadipour, Saeedeh. "5 Broken Cameras: Landscape, Trauma, and Witnessing." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1459439752.
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Dawtry, Sarah-Louise J. "Photographing Humanity in the Posthumanist Void: The US-Mexico Borderlands in the Work of Ken Gonzales-Day (b. 1964) and Krista Schlyer (b. 1971)." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1459439987.
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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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Statulevičiūtė-Kaučikienė, Rūta. "Iconography of Lithuanian architecture in the second part of the XIX century – in the first part of the XX century: art documentary aspect." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2009. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2008~D_20090316_093122-52107.
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Architecture iconography is one of the most important sources of the architecture history. It shows changing of the towns and buildings, opens cities panoramas still unchanged by urbanization and presents no longer existing constructions. What percent of truth and what percent of artist imagination is in these townscapes and portraits of the buildings? In the text it is attempted to answer these questions by analyzing Lithuania architecture views of the second part of the XIXth century- the first part of the XXth century.
Evolution of veduta in West Europe and Lithuania is presented in the first part of the dissertation. The most important creators of veduta and the essential bonds of the European townscapes and Lithuanian art are excluded. The birth of veduta and its popularity in Lithuania are reviewed. It is attempted to search for ideological and historical basement of this creation also.
Comprehensive formal, comparative and semantic analysis of the documental and imaginative iconography ere given. It is trying to establish the documentary value, correspondence to real architectural view, of the views by requesting these instruments. Field investigation, old photography, and written sources were used for analysis. Imaginative architecture views are treating like retrospective searches of ideal city (and are linked with ideal landscape) or like artistic reconstruction suggestions. The possibilities and probabilities of these retrospective views are valuating, analogues... [to full text]Architektūros ikonografija – vienas svarbiausių architektūros istorijos šaltinių, atskleidžiantis miestų ir atskirų pastatų kaitą, atveriantis urbanizacijos dar nepakeistas miestų panoramas ir pristatantis nebeegzistuojančius statinius. Kiek grafikos ir tapybos technikomis sukurtuose architektūriniuose peizažuose ir pastatų „portretuose“ tiesos ir kiek pačių kūrėjų išmonės? Ar išties piešti ir tapyti atvaizdai gali būti patikimi istorijos šaltiniai? Į šiuos klausimus ir stengiamasi atsakyti analizuojant XIX a. II p.-XX a. I p. Lietuvos architektūros vaizdus. Pirmuosiuose disertacijos skyriuose chronologiškai pateikiama vedutos raida Vakarų Europoje ir Lietuvoje, išskiriami svarbiausi kūrėjai ir esminiai architektūrinio peizažo saitai su mūsų šalies daile; apžvelgiamas vedutos atsiradimas ir išpopuliarėjimas Lietuvoje, ieškoma ideologinių ir istorinių tokios kūrybos atramų. Darbe pateikiamos išsamios dokumentiškų ir imaginacinių ikonografinių vaizdų formaliosios, lyginamosios ir semantinės analizės. Pasitelkus šiuos įrankius stengiamasi nustatyti grafikos ir tapybos darbuose užfiksuotų vaizdų dokumentiškumą – detalumą ir atitikimą realiam architektūros vaizdui. Analizei naudojamas tyrimai natūroje, senosios fotografijos ir rašytiniai šaltiniai. Į imaginacines rekonstrukcijas žvelgiama kaip į retrospektyvines idealiojo miesto paieškas (siejama su idiliniu peizažu) ir meninius rekonstrukcinius pasiūlymus. Abiem atvejais vertinama atkurto/sukurto vaizdo galimumas, ieškoma... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Valentine, Andrew Lee. "The Suspensionists." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1538644/.
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Valentine, Andrew Lee. ""The Suspensionists"." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1538644/.
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Monteiro, Ticiano Pereira 1982. "Chão de estrelas : modos de subjetivação produzidos em uma investigação artística sobre os videokês em Fortaleza." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284479.
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Orientador: Francisco Elinaldo TeixeiraDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: A presente investigação parte de um processo de criação artística videográfica experimental, na qual foram filmados cantores de videokê da cidade de Fortaleza, capital do Ceará. Das inúmeras apresentações gravadas, algumas se destacavam, trazendo o problema: o que faz essas imagens mais intensas que outras? Como alguns poucos sujeitos conseguem, com o corpo, provocar sensações tão intensas no tempo de suas encenações? Do conjunto das gravações, oito foram escolhidas para compor o objeto deste estudo. A análise dessas imagens levanta como principais conceitos as ideias de dispositivo e processos de subjetivação, teorizadas principalmente por Michel Foucault e Gilles Deleuze, e a proposição da câmera como ferramenta de relação, defendida por Jean-Louis Comolli. Os conceitos são aprofundados e colocados em diálogo com outros autores, assim como com as imagens das quais emergiram. São destacados dois dispositivos essenciais às análises dos modos de subjetivação em jogo nas imagens: a câmera e o videokê. A partir daí evidenciam-se: as linhas de sedimentação, ligadas ao aspecto molar do dispositivo, presentes nas performances como reproduções dos espetáculos da cultura de massa; e as linhas de fratura, ligadas às apropriações criativas do dispositivo. Nelas são revelados como certos indivíduos realizam apropriações dos dispositivos e dos espetáculos midiáticos para produzir um conhecimento de si, sobre as formas como o corpo se põe em cena e produz momentos de intensidade na tomada. Conclui-se que são os processos de subjetivação como autoafecção que são capazes de produzir as imagens intensas. Por fim, como resultado deste processo, que transita entre a prática artística e a teoria, é realizada uma instalação audiovisual
Abstract: This research is based on an videographic experimental artistic process, in which footage of videoke's singers were made, in the city of Fortaleza, Ceara state's capital. Among the numerous recorded performances, some stood out, raising the problem: what makes these images more intense than others? How can a few individuals provoque, with their bodies, such intense sensations in their performances? Eight recordings were selected, from the entire set, to compose this study's object. From the analysis of these images emerges, as most important concepts, the ideas of device and process of subjectivation, mainly theorized by Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, and the proposition of the camera as a tool for relationship, defended by Jean-Lous Comolli. Those concepts are examined in depth and put into dialogue with other authors, as well as with the images from which they emerged. Two devices are highlighted as essential to the analysis: the camera and the videoke. Based upon that, becomes evident: the lines of sedimentation, related to the devices' molar aspects, visible in performances as a reproduction of mass culture's spectacles; and the lines of fracture, linked to creative appropriation of the devices. Those cases reveals how certain individuals are appropriating the devices and midiatic spectacles in order to produce a knowledge about themselves, on the manners to impose the body on the scene and produce such intense performances. In conclusion, it is the processes of subjectivation as selfaffection that are capable of producing the intense images. Finally, as a result of this process, which, from the beginning, is both theoretical and artistic practical, an audiovisual installation is assembled
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Vitols, Maruta Zane. "From the Personal to the Public: Juris Podnieks and Latvian Documentary Cinema." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1210796660.
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Charlesworth, Ian. "Gesture and documentary : an integrated studio and theoretical based study into the role of drawing and photography in fine art practice." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.423436.
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Brandt, Nicola. "Emerging landscapes : memory, trauma and its afterimage in post-apartheid Namibia and South Africa." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9dfe7938-670a-40fc-a063-5617c0503fcd.
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Visual records of place remain to a large degree inadequate when attempting to make visible the ephemeral states of consciousness that underlie the damage wrought by brutal regimes, let alone make visible the extraordinary histories and power structures encoded in images and views. This practice-led dissertation examines an emerging critical landscape genre in post-apartheid South Africa and Namibia, and its relationship to specific themes such as identity, belonging, trauma and memory. The landscape genre was traditionally considered inadequate to use in expressions of resistance under apartheid, particularly in the socially conscious and reformist discourse of South African documentary photography. I argue that, as a result of historical and cultural shifts after the demise of apartheid in 1994, a shift in aesthetic and subject matter has occurred, one that has led to a more rigorous and interventionist engagement with the landscape genre. I demonstrate how, after 1994, photographers of the long-established documentary tradition, which was meant to record 'what is there' in a sharp, clear, legible and impartial manner, would continue to draw on devices of the documentary aesthetic, but in a more idiosyncratic way. I show how these post-apartheid, documentary landscapes both disrupt and complicate the conventional expectations involved in converting visual fields into knowledge. I further investigate, through my own experimental documentary work, the ideologically fraught aspects of landscape representation with their links to Calvinist and German Romantic aesthetics. I appropriate and disrupt certain tropes still prevalent in popular landscape depictions. I do this in an effort to reveal the complex and troubled relationship that these traditions share with issues of willed historical amnesia and recognition in contemporary Namibia. Through my practice and the examination of other photographers' and artists' work, this project aims to further a self-reflective and critical approach to the genre of landscape and issues of identity in post-apartheid South Africa and Namibia.
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Brown, Phoebe. "The Culinary Browns: A Film about Family." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/53.
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The Culinary Browns is an experimental documentary that traces four generations of the Brown family beginning with Bob Brown, my great-grandfather, a writer of pulp fiction, modern poetry, cookbooks and social commentary. This documentary is not a linear history or purely factual document, but instead, uses personal experience as a means to generate more universal connections to the inherently dysfunctional dynamics of family, the fragmentary quality of memory, and to ultimately remind the viewer that history is relative.
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Brown, Phoebe A. "The Culinary Browns." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/63.
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The Culinary Browns is an experimental documentary that traces four generations of the Brown family beginning with Bob Brown, my great-grandfather, a writer of pulp fiction, modern poetry, cookbooks and social commentary. This documentary is not a linear history or purely factual document, but instead, uses personal experience as a means to generate more universal connections to the inherently dysfunctional dynamics of family, the fragmentary quality of memory, and to ultimately remind the viewer that history is relative.
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May, John Edwin. "The McFarlands: "One Season"." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1719.
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This thesis is in support of the Master of Fine Arts exhibition entitled The McFarlands at East Tennessee State University, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, Tennessee, November 5th - 9th, 2007. This artist's photographic survey, which lasted approximately two years, investigated the lifeworld of a family in a rural Appalachian town. His photographic work depicts the subjects working on their farm growing tobacco and their relationships within the family unit.
The artist discusses his work in terms of historical and contemporary influences with an emphasis on the relationship to the work of Lewis W. Hine, Wright Morris, Mary Ellen Mark, and David M. Spear.
The thesis includes images and discussion of four works.
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Viraben, Hadrien. "Le savant et le profane : documenter l'impressionnisme en France, 1900-1939." Thesis, Normandie, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NORMR095.
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En 1946, la parution à New York de l’Histoire de l’impressionnisme de John Rewald consacra l’aura d’une historiographie scientifique du mouvement, cautionnée par un investissement documentaire. Cette qualité l’opposait à un monde profane, dominé par une tradition orale et en particulier la réputation de certains témoignages. Un examen attentif ne saurait pourtant donner raison au postulat d’une nature exclusivement savante du document. Une documentation impressionniste se constitua en effet, dès le début du XXe siècle, par l’intermédiaire de producteurs hétéroclites, artistes, témoins, héritiers, critiques, journalistes, aussi bien qu’historiens professionnels, conservateurs et universitaires. Elle peut ainsi être envisagée autant comme le fruit d’une quête de la vérité factuelle que comme l’appropriation d’un objet d’étude populaire, à travers ses empreintes écrites et visuelles. L’appareillage des lectures de l’impressionnisme réunit de la sorte : les autographes ; les memorabilia, meubles ou immeubles chargés du souvenir des peintres ; les technologies photographique et cinématographique. Ces documents participaient en outre d’une culture visuelle plus vaste, incluant les monuments et les plaques commémoratives dans l’espace public, ou encore les motifs transformés par l’acte pictural en points de vue remarquables. L’étude historique et critique de l’écriture de l’histoire impressionniste comme (dé)monstration documentaire permet de revenir sur les circonstances sociales et visuelles de sa mise en œuvre, sur les enjeux de carrière auxquels elle participa, et sur les missions qui lui furent assignées au sein de différents discours sur l’art, savants et profanesIn 1946 the publication of John Rewald’s History of Impressionism in New York consecrated the aura of the movement’s scientific historiography, supported by documentary investment. This quality confronted laymen’s narratives, which oral tradition and some witness’s accounts’ reputations dominated. Yet, a close consideration could not agree with the assumption of an exclusive scholarly nature of the document. Since the beginning of the 20th century, varied producers, such as artists, witnesses, heirs, critics, journalists, as well as professional historians, museum curators and academics formed an impressionist documentation. It thus can be interpreted as a quest for factual truth, as much as an appropriation of a research object through its written and visual marks. The equipment of impressionist readings hence gathered are: autographs; memorabilia, movable and physical assets as souvenirs of artists; photographic and cinematographic technologies. Moreover, these documents fit into a broader visual culture which included monuments and commemorative plaques of the public sphere, or motives transformed by pictorial acts into remarkable viewpoints. A historical and critical study of such a writing of history as documentary (de)monstration allows here to look back to its execution’s social and visual contexts, the career issues in which it participated, the goals that had been assigned to it within both scholars’ and laymen’s art discourses
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Statulevičiūtė-Kaučikienė, Rūta. "Lietuvos architektūros ikonografija XIX a. II pusėje - XX a. I pusėje: dailės dokumentiškumo aspektas." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2009. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2008~D_20090316_092714-68955.
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Architektūros ikonografija – vienas svarbiausių architektūros istorijos šaltinių, atskleidžiantis miestų ir atskirų pastatų kaitą, atveriantis urbanizacijos dar nepakeistas miestų panoramas ir pristatantis nebeegzistuojančius statinius. Kiek grafikos ir tapybos technikomis sukurtuose architektūriniuose peizažuose ir pastatų „portretuose“ tiesos ir kiek pačių kūrėjų išmonės? Ar išties piešti ir tapyti atvaizdai gali būti patikimi istorijos šaltiniai? Į šiuos klausimus ir stengiamasi atsakyti analizuojant XIX a. II p.-XX a. I p. Lietuvos architektūros vaizdus.
Pirmuosiuose disertacijos skyriuose chronologiškai pateikiama vedutos raida Vakarų Europoje ir Lietuvoje, išskiriami svarbiausi kūrėjai ir esminiai architektūrinio peizažo saitai su mūsų šalies daile; apžvelgiamas vedutos atsiradimas ir išpopuliarėjimas Lietuvoje, ieškoma ideologinių ir istorinių tokios kūrybos atramų.
Darbe pateikiamos išsamios dokumentiškų ir imaginacinių ikonografinių vaizdų formaliosios, lyginamosios ir semantinės analizės. Pasitelkus šiuos įrankius stengiamasi nustatyti grafikos ir tapybos darbuose užfiksuotų vaizdų dokumentiškumą – detalumą ir atitikimą realiam architektūros vaizdui. Analizei naudojamas tyrimai natūroje, senosios fotografijos ir rašytiniai šaltiniai. Į imaginacines rekonstrukcijas žvelgiama kaip į retrospektyvines idealiojo miesto paieškas (siejama su idiliniu peizažu) ir meninius rekonstrukcinius pasiūlymus. Abiem atvejais vertinama atkurto/sukurto vaizdo galimumas, ieškoma... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]Architecture iconography is one of the most important sources of the architecture history. It shows changing of the towns and buildings, opens cities panoramas still unchanged by urbanization and presents no longer existing constructions. What percent of truth and what percent of artist imagination is in these townscapes and portraits of the buildings? In the text it is attempted to answer these questions by analyzing Lithuania architecture views of the second part of the XIXth century- the first part of the XXth century. Evolution of veduta in West Europe and Lithuania is presented in the first part of the dissertation. The most important creators of veduta and the essential bonds of the European townscapes and Lithuanian art are excluded. The birth of veduta and its popularity in Lithuania are reviewed. It is attempted to search for ideological and historical basement of this creation also. Comprehensive formal, comparative and semantic analysis of the documental and imaginative iconography ere given. It is trying to establish the documentary value, correspondence to real architectural view, of the views by requesting these instruments. Field investigation, old photography, and written sources were used for analysis. Imaginative architecture views are treating like retrospective searches of ideal city (and are linked with ideal landscape) or like artistic reconstruction suggestions. The possibilities and probabilities of these retrospective views are valuating, analogues... [to full text]
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Bouveresse, Clara. "L'invention d'une académie : Magnum Photos, 1947-2015." Thesis, Paris 1, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA01H001.
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Institution mythique du monde de la photographie, l’agence Magnum, fondée en 1947 par un groupe de photographes entrepreneurs, est plus qu’une coopérative. Dans l’histoire de la photographie de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, c’est un modèle prestigieux pour l’ensemble de la profession, qui revendique son excellence et défend un canon d’images d’exception. Magnum ne serait-elle pas davantage une académie,institution éternelle et renommée, où l’on entre par cooptation ? Cette thèse propose, à partir de l’étude d’archives inédites, de retracer l’histoire de Magnum. Le prisme académique permet d’articuler l’évolution économique d’une entreprise, l’analyse des images produites, le récit des débats d’un groupe de photographes, l’histoire de leurs rêves collectifs.La première partie interroge les sources de l’académie, à commencer par la propagation du mythe Magnum et les dix premières années d’existence, lorsque l’agence fait corps avec le monde cosmopolite de l’après-guerre. La deuxième partie analyse le renouvellement académique de la fin des années 1950 à 1981, de la refondation d’une photographie engagée dans l’urgence mémorielle des années 1960,à la réponse cynique face au péril conformiste et commercial des années 1970, en passant par la dialectique coopérative qui déchire et réconcilie les membres. La troisième partie montre comment l’académie revendique son immortalité de 1981 à nos jours, s’imposant comme un monument patrimonial et une référence sur le web, et revient sur l’histoire des femmes à Magnum.Cette thèse met en lumière un chaînon méconnu de la production des photographies.Magnum est un point nodal qui définit la valeur économique des images, leur statut juridique, leurs usages commerciaux, journalistiques, documentaires et artistiques au sein de circuits de diffusion et de légitimation. Plateforme d’échanges partagée par plusieurs auteurs, Magnum invite à repenser, à l’heure de l’économie collaborative connectée, l’histoire et le rôle des « communs »Founded in 1947 by a group of entrepreneurial photographers, Magnum Photos, amythic institution in the world of photography, is more than a cooperative.Throughout the second half of the 20th century, it remained a prestigious model for the whole profession, claiming its excellence and promoting a canon of exceptional images. More than a mere agency, may Magnum be seen as an academy, a prestigious institution whose access is controlled by peers? The concept of an “academy” brings together the economic evolution of a business, the analysis of the pictures produced,the account of numerous debates amongst photographers, and the story of their collective dreams.This dissertation offers to retrace Magnum’s history, based on the study of unpublished archives. The first part investigates the sources of the academy, starting with the dissemination of Magnum’s myth and the first ten years of existence, when the agency was at one with the post-war cosmopolitan world. The second part analyzes the academic renewal from the end of the 1950s until 1981. It explores there-rooting of concerned photography into the memory urge of the 1960s; thecooperative dialectics, which divided and reconciled Magnum members; and the cynical answer to the conformist and commercial threats of the 1970s. The third part demonstrates how the academy claims its everlasting fame from 1981 until today,establishing itself both as a heritage landmark and an online reference; it alsointerrogates the history of women within Magnum.This dissertation sheds new light on a little-known stage of photographs’ production.Magnum is a nodal point defining the economic value of images, their legal status,their commercial, journalistic, documentary and artistic uses within circulation and legitimating networks. As an exchange platform shared by many authors, it invites us to rethink, within the context of a digital and collaborative economy, the history and the role of the “commons”
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Lyonblum, Ely Zachary Small. "An omnivorous ear : the creative practice of field recording." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/265801.
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“An Omnivorous Ear - The Creative Practice of Field Recording” offers new insights into the history of recording outside of the studio in North America, challenging the various working definitions of field recording in music studies, anthropology, and communications. I examine recording methodologies through the late 19th and 20th centuries as a documentary technique, a tool for composition, and an art object in the United States of America and Canada from the late 19th century to the present day. Within this geographical region, I focus on the invention of acoustic recording, the proliferation of the technology amongst the public, folkloric recording supported by governmental and academic institutions, as well a experimental artistic practices. Throughout the dissertation, I argue that ‘the field’ is a social construction mediated by the recordist and recorder. Chapter 2 focuses on how cultures translate collective and phenomenological experiences into histories through sound media. These include orality, writing, the inscription of sound waves onto media, acoustic recording, and radio as forms of sound media that each embodies distinct forms of social and political knowledge. Chapter 3 details the development of recording machines and their effect on listening practices. Chapter 4 locates practitioners of phonography within the development of portable recording equipment on the one hand and the ‘hi-fi’ cultural movement in North America on the other. Practitioners included folklorists Alan Lomax from the Library of Congress, Moses Asch of Folkways Records, and Harry Smith, creator of the Anthology of American Folk Music; Stefan Kudelski, creator of the NAGRA recorder; and media maker Tony Schwartz, among the first to create the sound documentary by editing field recordings. Chapter 5 explores the relationship between sound, music and the environment within the paradigm of the soundscape as theorized by the World Soundscape Project (WSP). I critique the research and compositional practices developed by WSP members, and the influence it has on ecomusicology and sound art. Chapter 6 outlines sonic ethnography, a methodology that borrows from the best practices of many of the individuals mentioned throughout the dissertation, and employs new compositional techniques to condense and manipulate social, political and historical narratives through sonic works. The dissertation concludes by arguing that field recording, can be used to critique aesthetic and cultural dilemmas of representation.
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Flagg, Tracy Claire. "In Ruins: Nostalgia and Melancholia in the Photographs of Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, 2005-2013." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396533009.
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Hurd, Danielle Jean. "Alice Brill's Sao Paulo Photographs: A Cross-Cultural Reading." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2635.
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In this thesis I consider the influence of Alice Brill's transnational background on her photographs of 1950s São Paulo. Brill was born in 1920 to a Jewish-German family. In 1934 she immigrated to São Paulo where she involved herself in local artistic circles. From 1946-47 she received a grant to study at the University of New Mexico and with the Art Students League in New York. Brill learned photography during her time in the United States, hoping to create documentary photo-essays in Brazil which she could send to American illustrated magazines. None of Brillss works were published in the United States, however, on returning to São Paulo in 1948 Brill was invited by Pietro Maria Bardi, Director of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, to "record the daily life of the citizens of São Paulo". Bardi intended the photographs to be published as an homage to the city's 400th anniversary, but lacked sufficient funding to complete the volume. Brill's images of São Paulo depict the metropolis in a way unique during the period: as a space shared by multi-racial communities. While many photographers and publications metaphorically white-washed the city by depicting only its most Europeanized attributes, Brill consciously sought out underrepresented groups, specifically the burgeoning Afro-Brazilian community. Brill's point of view was shaped by her international upbringing and training: her experience as an outsider compelled her to document other outsider communities in São Paulo. She recognized the traditions of representation already in place in Brazil and manipulated familiar types in order to represent the nation's true hybridity. Influences on her work include: the long history of part-artistic, part-anthropological studies of the Brazilian people; local photographic traditions for picturing the city and its inhabitants; the European photojournalist style introduced to Brazil in 1944; and the international sensibility of Brill's patrons, the Bardis. I attempt to show how Brill balanced these considerations with her own personal understanding of Brazil as a multivalent space.
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Coltelloni, Anne. "Le documentaire comme forme symbolique." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00812350.
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L'étude sur le documentaire a suscité ces dernières années de nombreuses approches : historique, rhétorique, pragmatique, stylistique. Celles-ci posent la question de la réalité dans le film ou dans la photographie, problématique récurrente du documentaire. C'est à nouveau cette interrogation qui sera abordée dans cette recherche. La perspective envisagée a l'ambition de synthétiser toutes ces approches en remontant à l'origine de la photographie, au dix-neuvième siècle, et en faisant valoir sa spécificité d'image. Un parcours photographique est proposé montrant en quoi l'image photographique a pu bouleverser notre rapport à la réalité. Cette ambition synthétique a trouvé son fondement dans un concept original initié par le philosophe allemand Ernst Cassirer : la forme symbolique. Il s'agit d'une logique culturelle qui propose de se placer au cœur de nos réalités et d'analyser les principes qui les gouvernent. Le point d'ancrage d'une telle philosophie repose sur la culture comprise comme une réalité relative. Dans cette perspective, l'image photographique en tant que documentaire est considéré comme un lieu donnant à penser une réalité ? Comment ? Cette recherche nous amène à envisagé trois moments pour l'élaboration de cette forme symbolique particulière : 1) l'invention d'une image-monde que l'image photographique a suscité ; 2) la survivance des réalités contenues et transformées dans cette image-monde ; 3) la création d'un lieu de mémoire par la constitution d'un patrimoine photographique.
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Toluta'u, Talita. "Talanoa matala 'oe fonua : an exegesis submitted to AUT University for the degree of Master of Arts (Art and Design), 2008 /." Click here to access this resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/503.
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This study is concerned with representation. It considers the nature of a culturally located narrative form called talanoa and its creative translation into film. The film Talanoa: Matala ‘o e Fonua that constitutes the designed outcome of this project considers the memories of three Tongan women who left their homeland to settle in New Zealand between 1970’s and 1990’s. It is designed as three related garlands that exist as a related unit. Talanoa: Matala ‘o e Fonua is therefore, a creative synthesis of their talanoa, into a new form of documentary that is designed to capture the cultural and emotional resonance of their stories. The work orchestrates photography, animation, sound design, filmed footage and extensive postproduction research into a unique text that seeks to move the parameters of documentary beyond the visual interview. In doing so, the research draws heavily on Tongan paradigms of narrative and representation.
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Leedy, Alison J. "Interpretations of the Politics of Fictive Landscapes in Context: A Comparison of Allan Sekula's Sketch on a Geography Lesson and Martha Rosler's In the Place of the Public Airport Series." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/197472.
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Interpretations of the Politics of Fictive Landscapes in Context: A Comparison of Allan Sekula's Sketch on a Geography Lesson and Martha Rosler's In the Place of the Public Airport Series Throughout this thesis project I examine the geopolitical context(s) of the photographs featured in Martha Rosler's 'In the Place of the Public Airport Series' (1983) and Allan Sekula's series, 'Sketch on a Geography Lesson' (1982). I investigate the manner in which they question the legitimacy of the genre of documentary photography within the post-modern age by emphasizing the documentation of an actual physical place, presenting an alternative to the post-modern notion of photograph merely as another component of simulacra, or the intentional creation of an image without meaning or origin. By looking at photographs that Rosler and Sekula made during the burgeoning stages of post-modern theory, presents a broader interpretation of the development of Marxist documentary photography from the early 1980's to today. One way in which I dialogue with the discourse surrounding documentary photography in the 1980's is to focus on Rosler's and Sekula's intentional choice of material that emphasizes the political dialogue rather than concepts that are abstract and maintain no reference to real life. Furthermore, the period of the 1980's is considered a point in contemporary art history when the political fervor of the 1960's and early 1970's diminished greatly. Departing from this trend, Rosler's and Sekula's work continues to address political ideas throughout the 1980's, creating a bridge to today's photographers, such as Edward Burtynsky and Andreas Gursky who consider aesthetics from a socio-political perspective.
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Steen, Paula Alzugaray van. "O artista como documentarista: estratégias de abordagem da alteridade." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27153/tde-15072009-221515/.
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A presente pesquisa tem como objeto de investigação a apropriação de narrativas e estratégias documentais pelo artista contemporâneo, procurando traçar uma cartografia específica das ações do artista documentarista, a partir de três pressupostos comuns aos campos da arte e do documentário: o deslocamento, a participação e a fabulação. A meta é observar como esses impulsos se desenvolvem nas obras de alguns artistas em atividade hoje no Brasil, entre eles Maurício Dias e Walter Riedweg, Rosângela Rennó e Janaina Tschäpe. Sem querer abranger a totalidade do corpo ético e poético da obra desses artistas, a pesquisa enfoca atividades que combinam pesquisas de campo, invenção de situações e reinvenção de protocolos documentais. Ao analisar e questionar o estatuto testemunhal da imagem documental, e ao adaptar essa imagem para usos subjetivos, pessoais, conceituais etc., o artista documentarista estabelece uma nova plataforma para a prática documental, propiciando a revisão dos modos de leitura e representação da alteridade e da realidade.As its object of investigation, this research looks at the appropriation of documentary narratives and strategies by the contemporary artist. It looks to trace a specific map of the actions of the artist documentarist starting from three conditions common to the fields of art and the documentary: displacement, participation and fabulation. The aim is to observe how these forces develop in works by artists active in Brazil today, among them Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg, Rosângela Rennó and Janaina Tschäpe. Far from covering the totality of the ethical and poetical body of these artists works, the research points to activities that combine fieldwork, invention of situations and the reinvention of documentary protocols. In analyzing and questioning the importance of the documentary image as evidence, and in adapting this image to uses that are subjective, personal, conceptual, etc., the documentary artist establishes a new platform for documentary practice, bringing about a revision of the ways of reading and representing otherness and reality.
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Petzwinkler, Thomas. "Behind the Fire Line." VCU Scholars Compass, 2004. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/121.
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BEHIND THE FIRE LINEA thesis submitted in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Fine Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University, 2004. Major Director: Jim Long, Department Chair. Behind the Line of Fire is a documentary of the professional lives of a group of firefighters. Inspired by the events of September 11th, it has been an ongoing journey for me as I continue to interact with an photograph these individuals doing the job that they live for. My goal for this project has been to work within the guidelines of a documentary, a genre that has a rich, diverse, and defined history. I did not want to show scenes in which firefighters were depicted in typically iconographic scenarios. I have not made any images to date representing exploding structures with firefighters risking life and limb fighting the fire, nor have I shown the firefighters performing heroic acts such as rescuing a child or an animal. I believe the imagery I have created presents firefighters in a different light. These are men and women working. There are no hidden meanings or agendas involved. The photos are to be taken at face value as images of people whose lives revolve around what they do.
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Carvalho, Ananda. "Documentário-ensaio: a produção de um discurso audiovisual em documentários brasileiros contemporâneos." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2008. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/5121.
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The present research castes some elements to map the specificities of the essay-documentary. The Brazilian documentary s production has grown progressively in the last two decades, however a part of it no longer limits itself to a reproduction of the reality, characteristic traditionally associated to that type of production. In order to study those new works, this Master s Dissertation broadens the documentary concept to essay-documentary , acknowledging it as a subjective reflection about the world. That perspective is an unfolding of the concept of film essay, from Arlindo Machado, which reaches the productions that overpass the limits of the documentary and do not ties to the dichotomy between fiction and non-fiction or to the concern with a truth as a mirror of the reality. About the essay, it is adopted the concept of Theodor Adorno, which refers to the construction of an experimental and not totalitarian speech. To think the documentary as audiovisual, it gets back to Jean-Claude Bernadet, which contrasted that feature in the Brazilians contemporary documental productions. It is chosen to study the construction of that writing through the montage or the conceptual editing. To understand the montage, it returns to the concepts proposed by Serguei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, and followed by the video language according to Philippe Dubois and Arlindo Machado, until it arrives to the concept of metamedium and of montage as a spatial composition, proposed by Lev Manovich. At last, in order to consolidate the essay-documentary, it is chosen works which allowed establishing a dialogue between the theoretical perspectives approached. In this sense, it is presented an analysis divided in three sub themes: the montage of the visual speech, the montage of the sonorous speech and the symbolic montage. Each one of those sub themes is approached from a key-documentary, with the aim of realizing a reflection more deepen: Andarilho (Cao Guimarães), Sonoroscópio SP: polifonia da imigração (Kiko Goifman e Rachel Monteiro) and Nós que aqui estamos por vós esperamos (Marcelo Masagão). The selection tried to stand out production which was not restricted to the verbal as a speech composition strategy, but which adopted both images and soundtracks to build a symbolic documental writing
A presente pesquisa elenca alguns elementos para mapear as especificidades do documentário-ensaio. A produção brasileira de documentários cresceu progressivamente nas duas últimas décadas, entretanto uma parte dela não se limita mais a uma reprodução da realidade, característica tradicionalmente associada a esse tipo de produção. Para estudar essas novas obras, esta Dissertação de Mestrado amplia o conceito de documentário para documentário-ensaio , entendendo-o como uma reflexão subjetiva sobre o mundo. Essa perspectiva é um desdobramento do conceito de filme ensaio, de Arlindo Machado, que abrange as produções que ultrapassam os limites do documentário e não se prendem à dicotomia entre ficção e não-ficção ou à preocupação com uma verdade como espelho do real. Sobre o ensaio, adotamos o conceito de Theodor Adorno, que se refere à construção de um discurso experimental e não totalitário. Para pensar o documentário como um discurso audiovisual, retomamos Jean-Claude Bernadet, que constatou essa característica nas produções documentais brasileiras contemporâneas. Escolhemos estudar a construção dessa escrita através da montagem ou edição conceitual. Para entender a montagem, voltamo-nos para os conceitos propostos por Serguei Eisenstein e Dziga Vertov, e seguimos pela linguagem videográfica de acordo com Philippe Dubois e Arlindo Machado, até chegarmos aos conceitos de metamídia e da montagem como composição espacial, propostos por Lev Manovich. Por fim, para consolidar o conceito de documentário-ensaio, escolhemos obras que permitissem estabelecer um diálogo entre as perspectivas teóricas abordadas. Nesse sentido, apresentamos uma análise dividida em três subtemas: a montagem do discurso visual, a montagem do discurso sonoro e a montagem simbólica. Cada um desses subtemas é abordado a partir de um documentário-chave, com o intuito de realizar uma reflexão mais aprofundada: Andarilho (Cao Guimarães), Sonoroscópio SP: polifonia da imigração (Kiko Goifman e Rachel Monteiro) e Nós que aqui estamos por vós esperamos (Marcelo Masagão). A escolha procurou destacar produções que não fossem restritas ao verbal como estratégia de composição do discurso, mas que adotassem tanto imagens quanto trilhas sonoras para construir uma escrita documental simbólica