What is the scope of documentary making as a poetic and political form?
Bringing together a wide variety of scholar-makers, this event is an invitation to explore the scope of documentary practices and aesthetics.
In recent years, post-structuralist, post-colonial, and feminist thought have persuasively destabilized documentary as a fact-based, convention-bound and objective social or scientific practice. Today, a flourishing documentary culture finds a home in a variety of spaces - the cinema, the gallery, the academy, and embedded in existing and burgeoning forms of social media. Accordingly, the symposium conceptualizes documentary practice as encompassing multiple media and outcomes and represents a range of fields, including film/video, new media, art practice, media and visual culture studies, visual anthropology and ethnography.
Our goal is to produce discussion on documentary-making practices and aesthetics, and to foster communities for its continuing critical production and reception.
The keynote presenter is documentary filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson, who has produced a seminal body of work over the previous two decades. Everson's films explore the ordinary gestures of Black American life with a pronounced sensibility for the everyday.
For a complete schedule of events, speakers and screenings, please visit: http://poeticsandpolitics.ucsc.edu
Made possible by Porter College Festival Funding
Co-Sponsored by The Center for Documentary Arts and Research (CDAR)
With support from the Arts Events Office and Film and Digital Media Department