Dear all
I'm forwarding this at the request of Tony Dowmunt of Goldsmiths
Dave Hesmondhalgh
Goldsmiths College, University of London
Department of Media & Communications ScreenSchool presents
'First Person Films 2: A symposium on the performance of the self in
Film/Video Diary making'
3 April (Screenings & presentations of work) & 4 April (Symposium) at
Goldsmiths College, University of London
This symposium will look critically and concretely at a range of video
diary practices to see what kinds of knowledge they generate. Questions to
be addressed include:
* How does the diary mode deal with binaries such as the public and
private,historical/personal, the past/present, memory/actuality?
* What are the varied aesthetic strategies of diary making: the 'to-camera'
piece, the camera as 'mirror', filming of the self and/vs filming others,
the function ofediting?
* To whom is the diary addressed? (Self exposure, confession and performance
of the self for others)
Contributions will range across disciplines including Media/Film studies,
the politics of access, and sociology/anthropology, but be held together by
their focus on the video diary form. There will also be an opportunity to
experience video diary making by contributing to US video artist Wendy
Clarke¹s ŒLove Tapes project¹ during the day.
Cost for the whole event will be £40, payment by cheque payable to
Goldsmiths College. Please book early as places are limited by the size of
the venue. For booking please e-mail [log in to unmask] All emails
will be acknowledged after 21 March 2005.
For further information about the event please contact:
Tony Dowmunt, Department of Media and Communications - Goldsmiths College -
University of London - New Cross - London - SE14 6NW e-mail
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(The Symposium is being organised Tony Dowmunt as part of, and with support
from, his AHRB Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts. ŒFirst Person
Films¹ is an ongoing series of events mounted jointly by
ScreenSchool-Goldsmiths, Bristol Docs and the Institute for Advanced
Studies, University of Bristol. This symposium is also a ScreenSchool
collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process
(in the Sociology Department) in our joint VISUAL IDENTITIES series of
occasional talks/events.)
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