The following event is free and open to all interested colleagues. Please contact Helen Hughes [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> to let us know if you wish to attend.
Documentary Film and Intimacy: A One Day Symposium at the University of Surrey
Thursday 16th September 2010
All events will take place in the Nodus Building, University of Surrey, Stag Hill, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH
For information on how to get to the university please see: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/about/visitors/
9.30 Registration and introduction
10.00-11.30 Panel 1 Filmmaker and Subject
Chair: Lois Davis
Adrian Strong, Griffith University, Australia “John Marshall, cross cultural film and intimacy”
Agnieszka Piotrowska, Birkbeck College, London, “Can the documentary spectacle ever be anything other than ‘colonisation’ of the other?”
Hing Tsang, University of Surrey, “Experiential Education, Love and Cosmology in recent documentary work from Jon Jost”
11.30-12.00 Coffee break
12.00-13.00 Panel 2 Technologizing intimacy
Chair: Helen Hughes
Esther Wellejus, The Danish Film Institute and The University of Copenhagen, “Intimacy and the impact of technology on documentary film”
Rosina Marquez Reiter and David Froelich, University of Surrey, “Maintaining intimacy through technologies of mediation”
13.0-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Panel 3 Documentary Film and Family
Chair: Bella Honess Roe
Aysegul Selenga Taskent, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, “Privacy and family life in first person non-fiction film.”
Melanie Kennedy, University of East Anglia, “Documentary or reality TV – and does it matter?”
Stuart Andrews, University of Surrey, “Home movies or family documentaries?”
Paul Kerr, London Metropolitan University, "An essay in an intimate mode of confessional documentary-making"
16.00-17.30 Screening and Filmmaker discussion
Chair: Hing Tsang
Kersti Uibo will screen extracts from her latest film This is the Day and an earlier film Narrow is the Gate and discuss the role of intimacy in the filmmaking process.
"This is the day is the culmination of 10 years research in Kosovo. Her earlier film Narrow is the Gate in 2002 made the author aware of significant differences in style between a poetical film-meditation and a journalistic essay . This is the Day explores the notion of home, community and landscape in a religious community which is nevertheless very much part of a wider historical and geographical event. This is the Day is a near wordless description of a unique way of life which remains both contemporary and timeless. Painterly and elegiac, the film is a portrayal of both physical and emotional landscapes." (Hing Tsang)
18.00 Close
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