[ecrea] Cinematic Ethics 3 Workshop: Documentary Film and Ethical Experience

*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 workshop, the third organised by Dr Robert Sinnerbrink as part of 
his ARC Future Fellowship project (‘Cinematic Ethics: Exploring Ethical 
Experience through Film’), 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 aim to 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 May 17) by a screening plus panel 
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.

_Invited Speakers:_

*Dr Libby Saxton *(Queen Mary University London)

*Prof. Thomas E. Wartenberg* (Mt Holyoke College)

*Dr Mathew Abbott *(Federation University, Ballarat)

*Dr Illona Honigsto *(Macquarie University)**

*Dr Julia Vassilieva *(Monash University)

*A/Prof. Belinda Smaill *(Monash University)

*Dr Robert Blanchet *(University of Zurich/Visiting Fellow Macquarie 
University)

*Dr Kathryn Millard *(Macquarie University)

*Dr Robert Sinnerbrink *(Macquarie University)

All welcome but please email (robert.sinnerbrink /at/ mq.edu.au) if you are 
interested in attending.


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