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The new frontiers of documentary practice decenter the author, bringing in a multiplicity of voices and practices to generate polyphonies. This session explains the whys and the hows of these new documentary practices and strategies.

This session is a conversation with one of the world's leading scholar/practitioners of polyphonic documentary, Judith Aston. Through the Polyphonic Documentary Project, she explores new strategies and forms of cocreation that use collaboration to expose the multiple. This massive reset documentary with digital tools, requiring new ways of thinking and doing to embrace complexity, navigate uncertainty, and celebrate diversity.

Speakers

Presenter:     Judith Aston,  University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Interviewer:  Reece Auguiste, University of Colorado

Friday, March 31, at Noon EST.  It is virtual.  

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://ithaca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAucu2orzIoHNx3yyK2dbHo5lzF_y4B9u-D 

Cosponsored by the Park Center for Independent Media

Reece Auguiste is Chair and Associate Professor of Critical Media Practices at the University of Colorado. He is a documentary practitioner and scholar whose research focuses on national cinemas, transnational screen cultures, and documentary media practices. His research interests span film theory and criticism, aesthetics of the moving image, documentary screen practices, the Soviet and post-Soviet avant-garde, Iranian screen cultures, Chinese screen cultures, African Diaspora screen practices and their operations in transnational contexts.

Auguiste was a founding member of the critically acclaimed British-based Black Audio Film Collective. He is the director of the award-winning films Twilight City, and Mysteries of July. His current film Duty of the Hour explores the life and times of the American civil rights leader Benjamin Hooks.

His essays on screen aesthetics and documentary practices have appeared in Framework, Cineaction, Undercut, Journal of Media Practice, The British Avant-Garde Film 1926-1995, Questions of Third Cinema, Dark Eros, The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Media and The Ghosts of Songs: The Film Art of the Black Audio Film Collective. He is the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the Grand Prize at Melbourne International Film Festival; Josef Von Sternberg Award for most original film of the Mannheim International Film Festival, and the International Documentary Association Award for exceptional creative achievement in nonfiction and television production, Los Angeles.