Elsewhere: The Last Circus

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-87
Author(s):  
Bilal Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
Collective Experience ◽  
Regional Location ◽  
True False ◽  
Falling In Love

FQ columnist Bilal Qureshi reports from his first visit to the documentary film festival True/False in Columbia, Missouri. Overcoming his initial trepidation—both at the prospect of traveling just as the coronavirus was gathering steam and at the festival's regional location—Qureshi finds himself falling in love with film festivals all over again. Yet the contact high of the collective experience provided by the festival, with its freedom to collide with films and audiences through impromptu gatherings and celebrations, takes on a heightened poignancy in this moment of COVID-19. While noting the uncertainties of the new cinematic and social order that will emerge post-COVID, Qureshi hopes that the opportunity to press reset might result in more small-scale, community-focused festivals like True/False.

scholarly journals The seeds multiply: the AcampaDOC International Documentary Film Festival

2020 ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Jasper Vanhaelemeesch
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Film ◽  
Central American ◽  
American Film ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
Film Genre ◽  
Spanish Caribbean ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Strong State ◽  
Basic Network

Contemporary Central American film cultures can be conceptualised as postconflict, and post-Third-Worldist (Shohat, 2004), small (Hjort & Petrie, 2007) cinemas that, in absence of strong state-regulated support structures, have come to rely heavily on their relations to national and regional film festivals (Ahn, 2012). This paper introduces findings gained through ethnographic fieldwork at film festivals in the Central American and Spanish Caribbean regions, with a focus on the ACAMPADOC International Documentary Film Festival in Panama, the only film festival in the region dedicated exclusively to the documentary film genre. The paper also briefly refers to data from on-going research that maps Central American films and filmmakers in a basic network analysis. The reported findings broadly cover what are identified as five areas of concentration in the study of film festivals, based on the understanding of festivals as nodal interfaces for film cultures (Iordanova, 2015).

scholarly journals Peningkatan Kualitas Infrastruktur Permukiman Melalui Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Desa/Kelurahan Berbasis Data Base Digital Keruangan (SPASIAL) Di Kabupaten Wajo

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-30
Author(s):  
Abdul Rachman Rasyid ◽  
Andi Lukman Irwan ◽  
Laode Muhammad Asfan Mujahid ◽  
Ihsan ◽  
Mimi Arifin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Silk Industry ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
South Sulawesi ◽  
Regional Location ◽  
Processing Mechanisms

Wajo Regency is one of the districts that have a role in the development and progress of South Sulawesi Province. Therefore, agricultural production facilities will be developed through processing mechanisms to the creative industries. Irrigation will be directed at the development of large-scale and small-scale rural irrigation through artificial embankments, revitalization of swamps and lakes. Whereas in urban areas a residential environment will be held an adjustment, especially near the of Lake Tempe in the area of ​​Sengkang as the Capital of Wajo Regency. The purpose of this study is to find easy access for the community to drinking water and to provide accurate data related to Geographic Information System (GIS)-based regional location conditions. The approach used in this activity is a field survey related to the existing condition of the location by assisting the community, increasing knowledge by training or counseling aimed at solving existing problems in the village / subdistrict in Tempe Subdistrict, Wajo Regency, as well as training and utilizing digital databases related to the profile and potential of the city. The results of the study obtained were that some districts had several problems, namely, solid waste systems, road networks, inadequate buildings and inadequate clean water especially in Attakae, Maddukelleng, Pattirosompe and Tempe. However, there is potential that can be developed to improve the regional economy, such as the silk industry and wood industry.

The iAnimal Film Series

Screen Bodies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-61
Author(s):  
Holly Cecil
Keyword(s):  
Animal Studies ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Short Film ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Critical Animal Studies ◽  
Advocacy Organizations ◽  
Film Series

This article explores the innovative use of virtual reality (VR) technology in nonfiction documentary film formats by animal-advocacy organizations. I examine the potential of the VR medium to communicate the living and dying environments of factory-farmed animals, and to generate viewer empathy with the animal subjects in their short, commodified lives from birth to slaughterhouse. I present a case study of the iAnimal short film series produced by Animal Equality, which made its public debut at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Employing a critical animal studies framework, I engage Kathryn Gillespie’s work on witnessing of the nonhuman condition as a method of academic research, and apply to it the embodied experience of virtual witnessing through virtual realty.

Absence, Ambiguity, and Deviating Pleasure Activism: The Tokyo Rainbow Film Festival

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-36
Author(s):  
Qin QIN
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Diachronic Study ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
A Site ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract Whereas several Japanese popular magazines have published reports and interviews on LGBT film festival curators, little scholarship has shed light on Japanese LGBT film festivals. This article serves as a case study of how the festival enables the festival community—cinephiles, LGBT audiences, organized groups of activists, and indie filmmakers—to share ideas and coordinate within and outside the metropolis. I conduct a synchronic and diachronic study to sketch the historical trajectory of the festivalgoers, material spaces, festival formation, curation, and programming. In utilizing a methodological framework which includes geopolitics, gender, film, and organizational studies, this article proposes an approach that juxtaposes the classic concept of ‘counterpublics’ with the theoretical reading of affective politics and pleasure activism. The findings suggest that the Tokyo Rainbow Reel Film Festival functions as a site of discursive political stances and affective disposition. The ambiguity of the film festival space correlates closely with two factors: Japanese homophobia, or ‘the absence of LGBT’, and an unorthodox pleasure activism that does not include suffering and oppression.

Report from the Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, 2009

Asian Cinema ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-222
Author(s):  
Adam Bingham
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Film ◽  
Film Festival
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