I also posted a blog link to Unspoken Cinema (by HarryTuttle et al), a great resource for practitioners and scholars of what the blog-blurb calls
Contemporary Contemplative Cinema (C.C.C.): the kind that rejects conventional narration to develop almost essentially through minimalistic visual language and atmosphere alone, without the help of music, dialogue, melodrama, action-montage, and the star system.Phew. The legendary HarryTuttle is also the blog author of SCREENVILLE, which, among other great features, has lists of cinema webcasts and online video. I have added his custom video search page to FSFF's list of resources aimed at those engaged in Film or Screen Media 'Practice as Research' (or 'Research by Practice').
Film Practice as Research (basically, higher-education-based film and video practice that can give a 'reflexive account of itself [its form, especially] as research’) is a lively, but still 'emerging' research area, perhaps primarily in the UK. As the meagre sources of funding for artists' (and non-commercial) film and video in this country have almost completely dried up in recent years, outside the academy, many more filmmakers than before have turned to teaching to (part-)fund their work, not only in practical filmmaking college departments and art schools, but also in Film and Media Studies University departments, too. In this latter context, the academic requirement to be 'research active' and 'excellent' (and measurably so...) has led to the growth in this discourse of 'practice as research'. The Wikipedia page on this matter, that I've linked to, covers the sometimes controversial issues raised by these new ways of working, around the 'articulation as research' of practice-based work, as well as peer-review and dissemination, etc., quite well.
4 comments:
Thank you very much for the plug. I'm flattered to be mentioned on your blog.
I'm in full support of FREE cultural content online, open source and its sharing. So your project is precious for the blogosphere. The indiscriminate multitude of the web very much needs places like this one to centralise valid information and help pertinent researches.
Keep up the good work.
P.S. I've added lots of links to my custom search engines, thanks to your rich blogroll.
Thanks a lot, Harry, for your lovely comment. Your brilliant blogging has been, and will continue to be, a big inspiration.
Catherine
I just didn't know I was "legendary"... hehe
Well, it's always best when legendary folk don't intuit their true status among acolytes. Now I have let the cat out of the bag...
Best,
Catherine
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