To contribute to this thread,
Charlotte Crofts has been heading up the excellent practice wing at MeCCSA
and has also edited/programmed the practice strand of the Journal of Media
Practice: <http://jmpscreenworks.com/>.
Documentary practices are particularly well-represented at MeCCSA, Visible
Evidence, Documentary Now! and iDocs. And as Michael Yorke notes, practical
filmmaking is well represented as a nuanced critical-creative research
practice within anthropology (and in, growingly, archaeology, geography,
sociology, etc.).
Another source of information might be Practice-as-Research in Performance
and Screen (2009) an edited collection (I was one of the co-editors)
emerging out of the AHRC-funded PARIP project. John Adams, John Ellis and
Robin Nelson sat on the steering committee of the original project. The
book contains extended essays on screen practices by Jon Dovey, Cahal
McLaughlin, John Adams, Robin Nelson, Caroline Rye and I. It also has a DVD
insert that includes film and video examples from John Adams, David Chapman
and Adrian Palka, Tony Dowmunt, David Furnham, Cathy Greenhalgh and Cathy
Lane, Cahal McLaughlin and Lizzie Thynne. Additionally, there are
practitioners in the book who work with film and video but who situate
themselves within media arts and/or performance. I have not included their
names here.
There are many academics who are skilled practitioners recognised by the
Arts Council, Film Council (as was), Creative England, research funding
councils, etc. When I surveyed submissions to RAE 2001 as part of my
research post with PARIP, there appeared to be around 30-40
practitioner-researchers across the UK working in identifiable film, TV and
media departments. On the PARIP database of c 500 practitioner-researchers
across the globe, around 1/4 worked with film and video. This number
potentially grows considerably as soon as you consider Fine Arts and
include Patrick Keiller and similar artists working with film and video.
One might point to someone like Clio Barnard as an excellent example of a
practitioner working in a prestigious film department who's been recognised
both inside and outside of the academy for The Arbor, which we used in
teaching here at Bristol last year.
All the best
Angela
--On Wednesday, May 2, 2012 10:27 +0000 Dina Iordanova
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
>
> It has been interesting for me to read the postings related to film
> practice ? on the one hand, the numerous voices supporting a 'film
> practice research' award, and on the other some interesting conceptual
> views as the ones expressed below.
>
>
> I believe BAFTSS is in process of addressing the 'awards' issue, and we
> will see a practice award, as requested, in place soon.
>
>
> I am interested in another aspect, however, and I suppose I am not the
> only one. At St. Andrews, like at many other Universities, film studies
> is only represented as 'studies' and there is next to nothing that we
> offer by way of 'practice' (and respectively little by way of research
> into 'practice', even though I would say that my work on film festivals
> does look precisely into practices of film distribution). I feel I do not
> know enough of the work that is done in this area, but would like to
> learn more. So I wondered if it would be possible to invite colleagues to
> post some case studies of interesting instances of 'film practice'
> related research for the benefit of subscribers to the list? I believe it
> would be of benefit to those who, like myself, are ignorant about this
> area of scholarship, as well as of benefit to those who are engaged with
> it. Some good examples were already mentioned, perhaps we could identify
> some more? Especially as it strikes me, having just read through the
> Learning on Screen awards winners list, to see that none of the awards
> seemed to go to a Film, TV and Screen studies programme.
>
>
> Thank you. Dina
>
>
>
> Prof. Dina Iordanova
> Chair in Film Studies
> Provost, St. Leonard's College
> University of St. Andrews
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
>
>
>
> From: Ian Christie <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Ian Christie <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:32:39 +0100
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: REMINDER: BAFTSS awards
>
>
>
> Nina:
>
>
> Of course it's a generalisation, and of course there are examples of art
> historians who work closely with artists. But you can hardly deny that
> art history as a 'corporate' discipline - and especially in the UK - has
> largely distanced itself from the messy business of what artists do -
> sadly, in my view. I'm not even sure that a majority of art historians
> engage in what would be their logical area of 'practice' - putting on
> exhibitions (rather than Eng Lit, another fairly 'new' discipline and its
> relation to 'writing', until 'creative writing' came along as an upstart
> neighbour...)
>
>
> In my experience, there is more interchange/collaboration etc in the US,
> and perhaps in other countries as well. It almost seems as if art history
> in the UK, which was institutionalised pretty recently, forgot that many
> of its founders were also practising artists as well as scholars. And
> sadly Film Studies, when it became institutionalised even more recently,
> largely followed the same path, with scholars remaining very separate
> from the exciting, evolving business of making/showing/archiving films -
> where they could contribute a lot, and learn into the bargain.
>
>
> I happen to believe that film belongs within art history (which is why I
> work in an art history department, and try to re-place film in
> exhibitions), and also that both disciplines would benefit from getting
> their hands dirty more - but I can't say I share your optimism that many
> take this view, either within art history or film. I'm certainly not
> trying to reinforce barriers: more like lamenting their prevalence.
>
>
> Ian
>
>
> On 27 April 2012 13:10, Lubbren, Nina <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
>
> Dear all
>
>
> As an art historian, I feel moved to respond to Ian's mention of art
> history as a newish discipline that is ultra-conservative over practice
> and cuts itself off from the benefits of theory as/in practice. Firstly,
> art history, depending on whether you count its origins as being with
> Winckelmann, Hegel or the generation of Kugler is at least 200 to 100
> years older as a discipline than film or media studies (hence, it is not
> 'newish' although it is true that its Anglophone history is shorter than
> its Germanophone one). Secondly, it is misleading to equate the
> resistance to practice with an ultra-conservative attitude (in the
> political sense? in the disciplinary sense?); at any rate, this is an
> over-generalisation. Thirdly, many art historians have grappled with and
> continue to grapple with issues of practice / theory. Many work closely
> with artists; others work within the gallery, museum or heritage context
> and deal with practical issues of conservation, exhibition, curating;
> others are or were practitioners themselves (the late Charles Harrison
> comes to mind). Fourthly, it is not constructive to reinforce
> disciplinary barriers; indeed, many film studies programmes are situated
> within art history departments, and many art historians write about film.
> Plus, there is a continuing exchange between the discourses of film and
> art (I'm thinking of last year's 'Moving Image and Institution: Cinema
> and the Museum in the 21st Century' conference at Cambridge).
>
>
> This is not a criticism of Ian Christie whose work I much admire. I just
> wanted to set the record straight on that particular (possibly
> throw-away?) point, :-) and to plead for an inclusive attitude towards
> all disciplinary backgrounds. I would wish scholars of art, film and
> media to be in productive dialogue.
>
>
> Best wishes
> Nina
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----
> Dr Nina Lübbren
> Art Historian and Principal Lecturer in Film Studies
> Deputy Head of Department of English, Communication, Film and Media
> Acting Programme Leader Communication, Film and Media Studies
> Anglia Ruskin University
> East Road
> Cambridge CB1 1PT
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
>
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>
> __________________________________________________
>
> From: Announcement list for the British Association of Film, Television
> and Screen Studies [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Ian Christie
> [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 27 April 2012 12:40
>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: REMINDER: BAFTSS awards
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Catherine - and Charlotte:
>
>
> Couldn't agree with you more. BAFTSS shouldn't go down the route of other
> newish disciplines that have tried to bolster their academic status by
> being ultra-conservative over 'practice' (like art history...) and so cut
> themselves off from the benefits of theory-as/in-practice, not to mention
> gaining much greater academic 'market share' by joining forces with
> practitioners. Birkbeck collaborated with Westminister, Goldsmiths etc on
> an AVPhD project for some years, which drew together people engaged in
> practice-based research around the UK and showed how rich this could be.
>
>
> Why would we want to cut ourselves off from this, especially in the age
> of digital convergence?
>
>
> Ian Christie
>
>
> www.ianchristie.org
>
>
>
> On 21 April 2012 10:12, Catherine Grant <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>
> Can I please repeat Charlotte Crofts' question: what about film [and TV]
> practice research?
>
> I deeply understand our disciplines' depth of attachment to traditional,
> text-based, research outputs. But if BAFTSS is (inadvertently?) going to
> subordinate, or sideline, film and television studies research by
> practice from the outset, I believe it would be missing a valuable
> opportunity to represent growing numbers of researchers, some of whom are
> working at the cutting edge in our range of disciplines.
>
> If the fear is that such work is too thin on the ground, (a fear I don't
> share), presumably it wouldn't take too much more work to set up an email
> account and judging panel for [log in to unmask] I would presume
> that if the work out there isn't deemed to be good enough, in each BAFTSS
> prize category, prizes don't have to be awarded in any given year. This
> latter stance seems to work for the Pulitzer Prizes.
>
> Should volunteers be required to receive and assess entries etc, then
> please count me in.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Catherine Grant
> Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sussex
> Editor of Film Studies For Free and curator of Audiovisualcy
>
>
> On 18 April 2012 14:03, Charlotte Crofts <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> What about film practice research?
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