Filming Revolution: A Digital Methods Development workshop with Alisa Lebow听
Join filmmaker / film scholar Alisa Lebow for an in-depth exploration of the methods used in creating the Filming Revolution project, a meta-documentary about film-making in the Egyptian Revolution.
When听听听听 May 16, 2016 From: 11:30 AM to 3:30 PM Where听听听听 S3, Alison Richard Building, West Road, 海角社区 The Filming Revolution website brings together interviews with over 30 filmmakers, archivists, activists and artists who were interviewed for this project in two research trips to Cairo, the first in December 2013, the second in May-June 2014, with many of the film projects they are working on, in the form of a searchable, interactive documentary which is itself, as Lebow explained in a recent interview with Jadaliyya, "a commentary upon how documentary is traditionally made". The website had to do "double duty", she argues, as a platform which aspired to be both aesthetically appealing and organised in a relatively logical way, "without appearing to be a kind of library or data base. In the interactive documentary world, you usually find one or the other, not both. So we really had to do a lot of inventing." Organised by the 海角社区 Digital Humanities Network and 海角社区 University and the 海角社区 Centre for Film and Screen in collaboration with the Egypt's Contentious Media research project Spaces are limited and advance booking is essential. Please sign up online here. About the speaker: Alisa Lebow is a filmmaker/film scholar based in London. Lebow is originally from NY and has lived and taught in Istanbul, Bristol and London. She is currently a Reader in Film Studies at University of Sussex, teaching modules such as 鈥楩ilm and Revolution鈥� and 鈥楩irst Person Film鈥�. Her research is generally concerned with issues related to documentary film, recently to do with questions of 鈥渢he political鈥� in documentary. Her article 鈥淭he Unwar Film鈥� (A Companion to Contemporary Documentary, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015: 454-474) creates a taxonomy of the contemporary war documentary, arguing for a cinematic mode that can undo the logic of militarism that other documentaries wittingly or unwittingly uphold. Her article 鈥淪hooting with Intent: Framing Conflict鈥� (Killer Images, Wallflower Press, 2012: 41-61) explores the relationship between the documentary camera and the gun. She has written extensively on first person filmmaking, as well as writing on the works of Chantal Akerman, Kutlug Ataman, and Eleanor Antin. Her books include The Cinema of Me (Wallflower, 2012) and First Person Jewish (University of Minnesota Press, 2008). She is also the co-editor of A Companion to Contemporary Documentary with Alexandra Juhasz (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015). Lebow鈥檚 film work includes For the Record: The World Tribunal on Iraq (2007), Treyf (1998, co-directed with Cynthia Madansky) and Outlaw (1994).听 The Filming Revolution website combines Lebow鈥檚 scholarly and practical work, and is her first foray into interactive media. Filming Revolution was funded by the Leverhulme Trust and supported by the School of Media, Film, and Music, University of Sussex.听
