IS THERE SUCH A THING AS A FEMINIST DOCUMENTARY?
An illustrated talk by filmmaker and media theorist Bernadette
Wegenstein, Johns Hopkins University, US, followed by a discussion about
documentary filmmaking with members of the Screen and Audiovisual
Research Unit in the Department of Media and Communications at
Goldsmiths, and a Q&A with the audience
Friday 3rd February 2017, 6pm-8pm
Goldsmiths, University of London, PSH LG01
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL; no need to register
Documentary film has traditionally been understood as
non-interventionist. The camera lens documents a reality as close as
possible to the one lived by its characters. This talk troubles that
narrative by delving into the method of directing Cinema Verite
characters and the contract that develops between a director and his or
her real characters on a Verite set. Drawing from her own experience
directing the recent documentaries The Good Breast (2016) and Devoti
tutti (in progress), Bernadette Wegenstein argues that feminist
documentary practice, far from documenting the world in a passive sense,
requires a fully interactive and embodied approach to the world of the
characters. This means that through this interaction the world of the
character reveals itself and speaks — even when it is silenced in the
“real world.” But is this world really the world of the character, or is
it a world that the documentary film has actually created? And what does
this mean for a “feminist point of view”?
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Bernadette Wegenstein is an Austrian-born media theorist and a
documentary filmmaker. She is Professor of Media Studies at the Johns
Hopkins University in the US, where she is also the founder and director
of the Center for Advanced Media Studies. Her numerous publications
include two MIT Press books, The Cosmetic Gaze: Body Modification and
the Construction of Beauty (2012) and Getting Under the Skin: Body and
Media Theory (2006).
Website: http://bernadettewegenstein.com/
VENUE
The event is in the Professor Stuart Hall building (PSH), room LG01
How to get to Goldsmiths: http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/
Link: https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=10460
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1205861302816149/
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Professor Joanna Zylinska
Department of Media and Communications
Goldsmiths, University of London
http://www.joannazylinska.net
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