VisionMix Short Cuts Documentary Film and Workshop
- Submitting institution
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University of Winchester
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 33LK3
- Type
- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Multi-component output
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- March
- Year
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The project researched the film-making strategies of 24 leading Indian video artists’ and documentary filmmakers active between 2008 and 2015. I researched and disseminated findings on this topic to a growing online research community and made a 52-minute documentary that profiled twelve of the filmmakers’ practices. Forging a partnership with two Indian Film Studies faculties, and the Goethe Institute (New Delhi) these institutes hosted an Event, designed for educational benefit and open to the public. I curated a 5-day programme of screenings in which 24 filmmakers and 12 film scholars delivered presentations and roundtables. Culminating in my founding of a sustainable network, ‘VisionMix,’ the research outputs were archived and disseminated through this network’s website.
Identifying the filmmakers’ strategies served to elucidate the linkage between political activist agendas and collective film-authoring tactics significant to film studies. The films dealt with issues such as LGBT rights, environmental and urban development, following a trajectory discussed by critics, Amrit Gangar, (2012); Nancy Adajania, (2018) and Shai Heredia (curator, Experimenta) and revealing:
Regionally specific points of convergence between video art and documentary film production histories
A counter-cultural ethics of ‘the intimate and the minor’
Anticolonial solidarities in artists’ film aligned to the theorist Leela Gandhi (2014)
The project gave visibility in India and the UK to South Asian filmmakers. Scholars contributing to the event included Gandhi, Lata Mani, Rustom Barucha, Kaushik Bhaumik, Charu Maithani (et al) and filmmakers, Avijit M. Kishore, Ranbir Singh Kaleka, Madhusree Dutta, Sameera Jain, Pallavi Paul (et al).
My documentary and the VisionMix website created legacy by publicising the filmmakers and generating new initiatives. The documentary was screened to academic audiences at Goldsmiths University, SOAS, Courtauld Institute, Manchester Metropolitan Univ. (UK), the Goethe Institute, Shiv Nadar Institute and Jawaharlal Nehru University (India) also widely viewed online
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- Non-English
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