Film maker in the family
Multi-platform project consisting of a film, a curated screening and a book chapter, investigating the relationship between family life and creativity.
- Submitting institution
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Kingston University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-36-1691
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Multi-platform project consisting of film, curated screening and book chapter.
- Open access status
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- Month
- September
- Year
- 2016
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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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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Film maker in the Family is a multi-platform project investigating the relationship between family life and creativity, through a distinct combination of approaches to the discipline of artists’ film and video. The project followed an iterative methodology, and began as a screening at BFI Southbank, London, curated by Abbe Fletcher, 24 September 2016, which brought together films incorporating family life into the filmmaking process. This screening inspired Fletcher to make a new short film in collaboration with filmmakers from the screening and family members (Railwaywomen, 2018). The filmmaking’s collaborative and rhizomatic practice was, then, analysed by Fletcher in a conference paper presented at Middlesex University London, 1 July 2018, which formed the basis for the third component of the project, an essay titled ‘Film maker in the Family: The impact of family life on creativity’ (chapter in Katy Deepwell (ed.) (2020) Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms. Amsterdam: Valiz). To inform this body of enquiry, Fletcher studied filmmakers and writers whose work has been influenced by the tensions between family life and creative production, with a particular focus on feminist practices and their legacies. Her approach to collaborative practice is based on the concept of the ‘rhizome’ as formulated by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Through this constellation of processes and perspectives, Fletcher was able to reveal the underexplored character of the impact of family life and parenthood on creative practice. Yet, at the same time, Fletcher suggests that key elements of family life such as interruption can also become models for creativity, especially in the case of time-based media, like artists’ film and video. In this context, an inclusive, rhizomatic practice of collective filmmaking combining Deleuze and Guattari’s theories with Michel de Certeau’s tactics may allow for working pragmatically around the demands of family life to produce new creative work.
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- Non-English
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