[ecrea] Cinematic Ethics 3: Documentary Film and Ethical Experience Symposium: MGSM Conference Centre, Macquarie Uni, May 18-19

*Cinematic Ethics 3 Symposium: Documentary/Non-Fiction Film and Ethical 
Experience *

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*_Two Day Workshop/Symposium_, *Thursday May 18 & Friday May 19, 2017***

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*MGSM Conference Centre 
<https://www.executivecentres.mgsm.edu.au/macquarie-park/location>

Macquarie University 
<http://www.mq.edu.au/about/contacts-and-maps/maps>, North Ryde, Sydney


Despite the flourishing of work in recent decades on the intersection 
between film and philosophy, contemporary theorists have focused mostly 
on varieties of fictional narrative film. Less attention has been paid 
to one of the most creative and dynamic areas of global cinema: 
documentary and non-fictional film.


This third Cinematic Ethics workshop, organised by Dr Robert Sinnerbrink 
as part of his ARC Future Fellowship project, is dedicated toexploring 
the intersection of ethics and documentary, examining how documentary 
raises and examines important ethical questions and political problems 
through creative forms of filmmaking. Moving beyond documentary theory’s 
traditional focus on ethical issues pertaining to film production, 
practice, and reception, the participants in this workshop explore the 
ways in which contemporary documentary and non-fiction film can use all 
the potentials of the cinematic medium to elicit complex forms of 
moral-ethical experience. Documentary, we aim to show, can thereby open 
up powerful new ways of thinking through the idea of cinema as ethics.


The workshop will preceded (on *Wed May 17, 4pm-6pm*) by a screening 
plus discussion of Kathryn Millard’s award-winning documentary, Shock 
Room <http://shockroomfilm.com/>, a critical examination of the famous 
Milgram psychological experiments, showing how they are more dubious 
than we think (we're not as blindly obedient to authority and willing to 
inflict pain on others as the experiment suggested). Filmmaker and 
academic Kathryn Millard will present on the film during the workshop 
itself.


*/Shock Room /Film Screening*: Wed May 17, 4pm-6pm _Drama Studio, Y3A 
building, room 187, Macquarie University_


A schedule of speakers is reproduced below. All welcome!


*Cinematic Ethics 3 Symposium: Documentary/Non-Fiction Film and Ethical 
Experience*

*May 18-19, 2017*

*MGSM Conference Centre* 
<https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/MGSM+Executive+Hotel/@-33.7716252,151.1140736,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x6b12a612cd8129af:0x24a601b2b6bb8cd6!8m2!3d-33.7716252!4d151.1162623>*, 
MGSM Building, Theatre 101, MQ University*

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*_Thursday May 18_*

*Coffee: 9.30*

Intro to Workshop 9.55

10am-11.00 *Prof. Thomas E. Wartenberg* (Mt Holyoke College), ‘Can 
Documentaries Reelise Philosophy: /The Act of Killing/ and the Banality 
of Evil’

11.00am-11.30 morning tea

11.30am-12.30* Dr Robert Sinnerbrink* (MQ), ‘The Act of Witnessing: 
Cinematic Ethics in /The Look of Silence/’

*12.30pm-1.30 Lunch*

1.30pm-2.30 *Prof. Kathryn Millard*, ‘Documentary Re-Enactment; 
Aesthetics and Ethics’

2.30pm-3.30, *Mr Robert Blanchet* (University of Zurich/MQ), ‘Wrong but 
understandable: Empathizing with fictional and documentary characters on 
the level of action and motivation’

3.30pm-4.00 Afternoon tea

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4.00pm-5.00 *Mr Adam Daniel* (Western Sydney University), ‘Inside the 
Open Image: Virtual Reality Cinema as a Medium of Ethical Experience’

*_Friday May 18_*__

*Coffee 9.30*

10.00-11.00 *Dr Libby E. Saxton* (Queen Mary University London), ‘The 
Face of the Crowd: Iconic Photographs and Documentary Ethics’

11.00am-11.30 morning tea

11.30-12.30 *Dr Belinda Smaill* (Monash Uni), ‘Refiguring the Human in 
Documentary’s Ethical Encounter: Animals, the Anthropocene and the 
Non-fiction Moving Image’

*12.30pm-1.30 Lunch*

1.30pm-2.30 *Dr Susan Potter* (Uni of Sydney), ‘/Bill Cunningham New 
York/: A Public Life/’/

2.30pm-3.30 *Dr Ilona Hongisto* (MQ), ‘Sweeping Changes in Eastern 
Europe: The ethics of the documentary frame in Gerd Kroske’s 
/Kehraus/-trilogy//(1990–2006)’

3.30pm-4.00 Afternoon tea

4.00pm-5.00 *Dr Mathew Abbott* (Federation University, 
Ballarat),‘Authenticity and Objectivity in Grey Gardens: Notes on the 
Ethics of Observational Documentary’

5.00pm—5.15 Concluding discussion & event wrap-up


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