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Filmmaker to Filmmaker: Robert Gardner and the Cinematic Process
Choices made in the reissue of many of Robert Gardner's groundbreaking films-including Dead Birds (1964), Rivers of Sand (1973), and Forest of Bliss (1986)-on DVD demonstrate how new media tools can reinvigorate questions generated by the original works and how they can provide new insight into a filmmaker's praxis. The juxtaposition of differing media and the integration of commentary track conversations in many of these works with media makers and scholars such as Stan Brakhage, Robert Fenz, Ross McElwee, Akos Ostor, and Lucien Taylor provide unique vantage points from which to view the original documentaries and reconsider the lessons they yield. Gardner's concurrent publication of his diary and production notes in the book Impulse to Preserve (2006) contextualizes and personalizes these works, showing how they fit together in a career of innovative ethnographic production that has spanned over 50 years.
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The digital imaginary : literature and cinema of the database
\"Leading creators and scholars raise provocative questions about emerging and hybrid narrative forms of digital arts and what these say about the creative imagination.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Filmmaker to filmmaker: Robert Gardner and the cinematic process
Choices made in the reissue of many of Robert Gardner's groundbreaking films-including Dead Birds (1964), Rivers of Sand (1973), and Forest of Bliss (1986)-on DVD demonstrate how new media tools can reinvigorate questions generated by the original works and how they can provide new insight into a filmmaker's praxias. The juxtaposition of differing media and the integration of commentary track conversations in many of these works with media makers and scholars such as Stan Brakhage, Robert Fenz, Ross McElwee, Akos Ostor, and Lucien Taylor provide unique vantage points from which to view the original documentaries and reconsider the lessons they yield. Gardner's concurrent publication of his diary and production notes in the book Impulse to Preserve (2006) contextualizes and personalizes these works, showing how they fit together in a career of innovative ethnographic production that has spaneed over 50 years. Reprinted by permission of the American Anthropological Association and the University of California Press
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Hearts and Minds
Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project is an interactive virtual reality narrative performance made for the EVL’s CAVE2TM largescale 320-degree panoramic virtual reality environment that visualizes stories of violence and the post-traumatic stress experienced by ordinary American soldiers who became torturers in the course of serving their country. During the American-led counterinsurgency and counterterrorism campaigns in Iraq in the years after 11 September 2001, the torture and abuse of detainees was a commonplace tactic.
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Picturing the Great Unknown
How does one picture an unknown territory? In the map drawn by the 1841 U.S. Exploring Expedition led by Charles Wilkes, a band of text describes a large blank area in the center of the arid American West as a “waste of sand.” A limited number of pioneer routes—mostly following Native American pathways—cut across the vast dry landscape that lies between the Midwestern plains and the California coast. Literally and metaphorically, the new nation turns inward to define what is, perhaps, its final frontier. Early and quasi-scientific explorations of the desert West, including the expeditions of the Colorado
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History inDust: An Interview with Milcho Manchevski
AbstractMacedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski reflects on the nature of history, story-telling, and photographic evidence in a discussion ofBefore the Rain(1994) and his latest feature,Dust(2001/2003), a genre-crossing “Baklava Western” that explores what happens when West meets East in the violent history of the Balkans.
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Making Forest of Bliss: Intention, Circumstance, and Chance in Nonflction Film
Making Forest of Bliss: Intention, Circumstance, and Chance in Nonflction Film. Robert Gardner and Ákos Östör. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. 135 pp., DVD.
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Working Images
Visual methods such as drawing, painting, video, photography and hypermedia offer increasingly accessible and popular resources for ethnographic research. In Working Images , prominent visual anthropologists and artists explore how old and new visual media can be integrated into contemporary forms of research and representation. Drawing upon projects undertaken both 'at home' in their native countries and abroad in locations such as Ethopia and Venezuela, the book's contributors demonstrate how visual methods are used in the field, and how these methods can produce and communicate knowledge about our own and other cultures. As well as focusing on key issues such as ethics and the relationship between word and image, they emphasize the huge range of visual methods currently opening up new possibilities for field research, from cartoons and graphic art to new media such as digital video and online technologies.
1. Introduction: Situating Visual Research Section 1: Visual Fieldwork Methods 2. Video and Ethnographic Knowledge: Skilled Vision in the Practice of Breeding 3. Photography in the Field: Word and Image in Ethnographic Research 4. Picture Perfect: Community and Commemoration in Photographs 5. New Graphics for Old Stories Representation of Local Memories Through Drawings 6. Imagework in Ethnographic Research Section 2: Representing Visual Knowledge 7. Putting Film to Work: Observational Cinema as Practical Ethnography 8. Revealing the Hidden: Making Anthropological Documentaries 9. Drawing the Lines: The Limitations of Intercultural Ekphrasis 10. In the Net: Ethnographic Photography 11. Conversing with Anthropology: Words, Images and Hypermedia Text 12. The Representation of Cultures in Digital Media Epilogue 13. Working Images
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History in Dust : An Interview with Milcho Manchevski
Abstract Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski reflects on the nature of history, story-telling, and photographic evidence in a discussion of Before the Rain (1994) and his latest feature, Dust (2001/2003), a genre-crossing “Baklava Western” that explores what happens when West meets East in the violent history of the Balkans.
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