Ritual Reconstructed: Connecting LGBTQI+ Jewish Communities through Filmmaking
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University of Portsmouth
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 26323289
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- A multi-component output that includes five films and three articles, submitted with contextual information and supporting media via USB.
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This is a practice-led filmmaking project created between 2014 and 2016. It is submitted via USB, which is available from the REF archive, as a MULTI-COMPONENT output consisting of FIVE collaborative films made by ethnographic filmmaker Searle Kochberg and ONE article, supported by contextual information.
The films were made with the Jewish LGBTQI+ community, and address LGBTQI+ reconstructions’ of Jewish ritual in communities across London. The project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of its ‘Connected Communities’ strand (2014-2016). From 2014 to 2015 members of the UK Jewish LGBTQI+ community were invited to participate and be filmed for the ‘Ritual Reconstructed’ films. The project encouraged participants to explore the construction of Jewish identities through reconstructing faith rituals. Combining Mary’s (2005) definition of bricolage as a dialogue between ‘meaningful material that one borrows’ and ‘incarnated forms one inherits’ and Savastano’s (2007) argument that that LGBTQI+ people have been forced to create their own sacred or alternative myths to generate new ways of bringing together LGBTQI+ Jews’ queer and spiritual identities, the research project conceptualised the London Jewish LGBTQI+ community as bricoleurs. ‘Ritual Reconstructed’ interrogated how to (re) create faith rituals and merge core Jewish and queer identities by using personally meaningful objects alongside film, art, storytelling and music, performative film, photographs and material artefacts.
Research insights were disseminated on the AHRC ‘Connected Communities’ website and via the ‘Ritual Reconstructed’ website (2014-2016 legacy site: https://ritualreconstructed.com), at JW3 London (2015) and a conference presentation at the ISA Forum of Sociology, Vienna 2016, a photography exhibition/lecture at the Brighton and Hove Synagogue as part of Brighton Pride (2019) and a COVID-delayed photography exhibition and symposium on cross-platform co-creative methods at University of Portsmouth (2021).
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- Non-English
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