When: Monday 21st February
Common Ground New Horizons: New formats/ New theories / New storytellers - looking to the past and the future.
The AIDC 2005 Academic Day will focus on the theoretical and pedagogical challenges facing documentary theorists, practitioners and educators. As documentary continues to expand, develop and change we need new theoretical frameworks to understand this new documentary disposition. Do we also need new teaching methods to prepare the documentary makers of the future?
In view of this we invite papers to address and discuss the following issues -
- How is documentary changing?
- What is new about these new styles, forms and modes of communication?
- Do we need to re-define the boundaries of what documentary is and can be?
- How are we engaging with these new forms and where are we watching documentary?
- Old is new - why are feature length documentaries doing so well on the theatrical circuit, matched by the high audiences watching new factual formats
- How important is the history of documentary to these conversations about the new
- What do we teach our student documentary makers and how does it support their needs in this century
- Life after film school - what happens to the emerging documentary makers we are training?
- What sort of questions should we be asking? How should we go about researching these developments
We welcome papers and commentary that address these questions, as opening further the debate about the current state of documentary in Australia.
Abstracts of up to 500 words can be sent to:
Alison Wotherspoon
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100
Adelaide South Australia 5001
AUSTRALIA
Alison.Wotherspoon@flinders.edu.au
by deadline Friday, 10th December 2004