[Commlist] new book: Memory, Place and Autobiography: Experiments in Documentary Filmmaking

/Memory, Place and Autobiography: Experiments in Documentary Filmmaking 
/has just been published by Cambridge Scholars.

The book proposes that the filmmaker in her dual role as maker and 
subject may act as a cultural guide in an exploration of the social 
world. It argues that, in the cinematic mediation of memory, the mimetic 
approach in the construction of documentary films may not be feasible, 
and memory may instead be evoked elliptically through hybrid strategies 
such as critical realism and fictional enactment. Recognizing that 
identity is formed by history and what ‘goes on’ in the world, the book 
charts the historical trajectory of the British independent filmmaking 
movement from the mid-1970s to the present growth of new online 
distribution outlets and new media through digital technologies and 
social media.

“Tracing her own trajectory over the years, from the emergence of the 
independent sector in the 1970s to the age of digital video, Jill 
Daniels tells a story at once personal, social and artistic. [It is a] 
fascinating account of what it means to be an independent experimental 
documentarist.”

*Michael Chanan*

*/Documentary film-maker, music critic, and author; Professor of Film 
and Video, Roehampton University, UK/*

*//*

“What is extraordinary about Daniels’ film work is the way she explores 
her themes – of memory, place, trauma, loss and survival – with almost 
forensic precision, but at the same time with a sense of personal 
closeness and connection that draws us in and makes her films memorable 
years after viewing them. Like other great ground-breaking 
documentarists-Chris Marker, Wim Wenders, Joshua Oppenheimer – she 
brings an artist’s luminous quality to her critical writing, leading us 
through observed, enacted and imagined scenarios to forge a radical 
understanding of new directions in the authored documentary. Her 
politics and her feminism inform this analysis, providing vital insights 
to those working in media, culture and the arts”.

*Sue Clayton*

*/Film director; Professor of Film and Television, Goldsmiths University 
of London/**//*

Please follow link for more details and extract

https://www.cambridgescholars.com/memory-place-and-autobiography



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