Our new website WWW. DOCWEST.CO.UK just went on line- it is still in development- any ideas, comments etc are more than welcome. We are eager to discuss any future contributions to the website ( blogs etc) and to future activities of the centre.
AND please join us on our Facebook page- link on the right hand corner of the main menu bar at the top.
DocWest is the website of the Documentary Film Centre at the University of Westminster. Established in 2009, it brings together an interdisciplinary network of researchers, practitioners and students to foster creative conversations around documentary practice. In our premises in Central London we host an exciting range of screenings, master-classes and conferences involving some of the most prominent practitioners in today’s documentary world.
Our activities involve teaching, film production, and academic research. We aim to redefine documentary discourse, its history and its connection to art and politics through investigating relationships between ideology, history, culture, and the apparatus of artistic production. We pay particular attention to the study areas of Visual Anthropology and Human Rights, Arts Documentary and the Documentary Archive, whilst extending the range of production and research into other fields of documentary study, such as the interactive documentary and the web-based documentary.
We focus on international collaboration and we welcome proposals from, and partnerships with, other documentary centres throughout the world. We actively search to promote documentary work that goes beyond Western European and North American traditions. We collaborate closely with Westminster University’s India Media Centre, China Media Centre and Africa Media Centre, and we are currently developing partnerships in Central and Eastern Europe.
We have developed a thriving Ph.D. culture, with both theoretical and practice-based doctoral degrees focusing on a variety of contexts and referencing many different documentary traditions. Current and completed Ph.D.s range from a shared ethnography of a queer club in London to an examination of the new forms of documentary film-making associated with representations of Modern China, and from an investigation into the new visual language associated with ‘mobile-mentaries’, to an ethnography of a documentary film studio in communist Romania.
We aim to provide a platform for initiating, funding and distributing creative documentary projects conceived at the intersection between academia and the industry.
If you feel inspired by the above, we want to hear from you.
Joram ten Brink
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Prof. Joram ten Brink
Professor of Film
School of Media Art and Design
University of Westminster
T: +44 (0)207 911 5000 ext 4733
F: +44 (0)207 911 5943
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/tenbrink
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