[Commlist] CFP: Constructions of the Real: Intersections of Practice and Theory in Documentary-Based Filmmaking

CFP: Constructions of the Real: Intersections of Practice and Theory in 
Documentary-Based Filmmaking


As more filmmakers have entered into academic institutions, and other 
film practitioners have sought to engage with philosophy, the 
relationship between filmmaking and theory has become entwined in 
dynamic ways. The confluence of theory and practice has impacted on the 
relationship between forms, platforms and content. Further, it has 
interrogated how the process of filmmaking can create new knowledge and 
can apply theory to the filmmaking process to open up new ways of 
practising.


Constructions of the Realseeks to bring together documentary-based 
practitioner-researchers writing about their processes of making. Drawn 
from a range of global perspectives, each chapter aims to reflect a deep 
engagement with the creative-theoretical processes of film and media 
making located in a phenomenological world. Through a range of diverse 
and situated practices, the book engages with current debates about the 
role of creative scholarship, making a claim for documentary and 
non-fiction filmmaking as a necessary practice for framing, critiquing 
and interpreting the world.


Agnès Varda coined the termcinécritureto describe film as emerging from 
a subtle and complex process involving reconnaissance, inspirations, 
writing, shooting and editing (2014). We embrace this emphasis on the 
creative entanglements of relationships and things encountered by the 
filmmaker. Through prioritising process, we see non-fiction filmmaking 
as a creative act, messy and full of contradictions. We welcome authors 
who can speak to these issues from their own practice.


Alongside this, we are interested in non-fiction filmmaking that 
disrupts the “reassuring mutual reinforcement of sound and image” 
(Marks, 2000) of traditional documentary by suggesting new forms, 
structures and intentions.


/We are initially seeking a 300 word abstract for eventual chapters of 
5000-6000 words. Please include a short author bio (100 words) and brief 
bibliography (in addition to the abstract length) with your abstract./


Deadline for abstracts is: August 11, 2020.


Draft chapters will be due in the first half of 2021.


You can send abstracts, and any questions you have, to 
(constructionsofthereal /at/ gmail.com)


We actively encourage practitioner-scholars from the Global South as 
well as Indigenous and First Nation practitioners.


Some provocations for the book chapters include:


The Expanded Essay Film

What are the new directions that the essay film is heading in, and how 
are practitioner/academics working with the affordances of new 
technologies and platforms?


The Other-than-Human

What strategies can be employed to shift perspectives from the 
anthropocentric?


Contested Spaces

How can filmmaking practices reveal and critique histories and 
sovereignty of place?


Disruptions and Transgressions

How can strategies of disruptions and transgressions challenge the 
gendered or colonial gaze?


Making Memory

How can non-fiction filmmaking create memory for the practitioner, speak 
into silences, and make a past in order to restore the present?

Filming the Self

Can filming the self achieve ‘reconciliation’, how might this be 
achieved and at what cost?


Archive as Practice

How can moving-image archives be recycled to reframe social 
relationships  across time and space?


Amateur-Professional

What can working with amateur home movies offer as a method to explore 
professional practice?



Publisher for the Book

We intend to publish with Intellect Books, in particular as part of the 
book series Artwork Scholarship: International Perspectives in 
Education, edited by Anita Sinner, Associate Professor in the Department 
of Art Education at Concordia University, Canada, and Rita Irwin, 
Professor of Art Education in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy 
at the University of British Columbia, Canada.


You can find more about the series 
here:https://www.intellectbooks.com/artwork-scholarship-international-perspectives-in-education

Intellect Books | Artwork Scholarship: International Perspectives in 
Education 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/artwork-scholarship-international-perspectives-in-education>
Series Editors: Anita Sinner and Rita Irwin. The aim of Artwork 
Scholarship is to invite debate on, and provide an essential series 
resource for transnational scholars engaged in analyses of the emergent 
paradigm of creative research involving the visual, literary and 
performative arts that advances pedagogical and experimental 
perspectives, reflective and evaluative assessments ...
www.intellectbooks.com


Book Editors

Kim Munrois a documentary maker and lecturer at RMIT University. She has 
published broadly in books and journals on the intersections between 
documentary theory and practice.Catherine Gough-Bradyis an award-winning 
documentary producer and director who has published widely on the 
emergent use of video as a method of academic discourse.Christine 
Rogersis a filmmaker and scholar and her non-fiction writing has been 
published in journals, newspapers and anthologies. She co-edited the 
bookMediations: Working Papers on Media and Practice, RMIT University, 
with Professor Lisa French and Dr. Jenny Weight. Liz Burkeis a 
documentary producer, whose work has been distributed through broadcast 
television and film festivals. Her area of academic research is the 
intersection between interactive documentary and the essay film. She 
lectures at Swinburne University of Technology.Liz Baulchis a film 
producer whose narrative and experimental films have screened widely on 
the international film festival circuit. Her current creative practice 
and area of research is the recontextualisation of the Australian family 
in amateur home movies. She lectures at Deakin University.

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