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Collaborative filmmaking: lessons learned from the Cissie Gool house film project
From 2019 until 2021, I directed and produced a twenty-two-minute film about a housing occupation in Cape Town, South Africa. Setting out on this project, I had several concerns. One, the ethics of being an outsider filmmaker making a film about a community from which I'm neither from, nor to which...
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| description | From 2019 until 2021, I directed and produced a twenty-two-minute film about a housing occupation in Cape Town, South Africa. Setting out on this project, I had several concerns. One, the ethics of being an outsider filmmaker making a film about a community from which I'm neither from, nor to which I belong. Two, I did not want to contribute to a long-practiced, Western documentary tradition of making images of people in need of saving. Although I'm neither the first nor last to raise these dilemmas in documentary filmmaking, I was interested in making the film ethically by drawing on a set of practices and ideas from participatory and collaborative filmmaking. In the making of this film I was also influenced by my own values and political commitments. This paper will first examine what the ‘participatory' term means – both the origins and development of the term and its varied significance – and then situate the Cissie Gool House project within this mode of representation and reflect on the filmmaking process. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/37656 Collaborative filmmaking: lessons learned from the Cissie Gool house film project Nisenson, Ann Valley, Dylan-Wade Maasdorp, Liani media studies From 2019 until 2021, I directed and produced a twenty-two-minute film about a housing occupation in Cape Town, South Africa. Setting out on this project, I had several concerns. One, the ethics of being an outsider filmmaker making a film about a community from which I'm neither from, nor to which I belong. Two, I did not want to contribute to a long-practiced, Western documentary tradition of making images of people in need of saving. Although I'm neither the first nor last to raise these dilemmas in documentary filmmaking, I was interested in making the film ethically by drawing on a set of practices and ideas from participatory and collaborative filmmaking. In the making of this film I was also influenced by my own values and political commitments. This paper will first examine what the ‘participatory' term means – both the origins and development of the term and its varied significance – and then situate the Cissie Gool House project within this mode of representation and reflect on the filmmaking process. 2023-04-04T07:46:34Z 2023-04-04T07:46:34Z 2022 2023-04-04T07:44:11Z Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/37656 eng application/pdf Centre for Film and Media Studies Faculty of Humanities |
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| title | Collaborative filmmaking: lessons learned from the Cissie Gool house film project |
| title_full | Collaborative filmmaking: lessons learned from the Cissie Gool house film project |
| title_fullStr | Collaborative filmmaking: lessons learned from the Cissie Gool house film project |
| title_full_unstemmed | Collaborative filmmaking: lessons learned from the Cissie Gool house film project |
| title_short | Collaborative filmmaking: lessons learned from the Cissie Gool house film project |
| title_sort | collaborative filmmaking lessons learned from the cissie gool house film project |
| topic | media studies |
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