DiD Special #3 - Interactive Documentary. Participation and Politics [English]

Kammerflimmern und Mediales Rauschen

starring Kate Nash

Contact: [e-mail]

Project website: DiD – Das Dokumentarische im Digitalen

Intro/ Outro

Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flow

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Intro spoken by: Sarah Topfstädt

Host and Editor: PD Dr. Anna Wiehl

Logo: Anika Ch. R. Nöhre

License CC BY-NC-ND

Funded by the BMBF

Having come from a background in media production, specialising in documentary, Kate Nash's research is focused on the production, circulation and impacts of long-form factual media. Kate is a leading scholar in the field of interactive documentary, having contributed to understanding the ways in which digital media technologies and cultures are shaping (and are shaped by) documentary practices. As a Co-Editor of the documentary studies journal Studies in Documentary Film and author of seminal publications on interactive documentary, Kate brings together film and media studies, philosophy and political sciences. Currently, Kate is developing research in the area of health and environmental documentary, focusing particularly on engagement and impact.

Literature / Publications by Kate Nash:

Nash, Kate (2022). Interactive Documentary. Theory and Debate. Routledge.

Nash, Kate, and John Corner. "Strategic Impact Documentary: Contexts of Production and Social Intervention." European Journal of Communication, vol. 31, no. 3, 2016, pp. 227–42. doi:10.1177/0267323116635831.

Nash, Kate, et al., editors (2014). New Documentary Ecologies: Emerging Platforms, Practices and Discourses. Palgrave Macmillan.

Projects mentioned in this episode:

Corona Haikus facebook group and Corona Haikus curated website (international, 2020-, A: Sandra Gaudenzi, Sandra Tabares-Duque)

Goa Hippy Tribe (A 2011, A: Devas, Darius et al.) Trailer on YouTube More information: MIT Open Documentary Lab docubase – Goa Hippy Tribe

18 Days in Egypt (USA 2011, A: Jigar Mehta, Yasmin Elayat et al.) Trailer on vimeo More information: MIT Open Documentary Lab docubase – 18 Days in Egypt

Fort McMoney (UK, D, F 2013, A: David Dufresne) Trailer on YouTube More information: MIT Open Documentary Lab docubase – Fort McMoney

Red Tales (UK 2015, A: David Green, Simon Bowen et al. ) More information on Creative Exchange.org – Red Tales and Red Tales Facebook group

The Quipu Project (UK, S, QUE 2015, A: Maria Court, Rosemarie Lerner) Trailer on vimeo More information: MIT Open Documentary Lab docubase – Quipu Project

Kapitel

1. general welcome (in German) / welcome in English: introducing the topic 'interactive documentary and politics of participation and introducing Kate Nash (00:00:00)

2. interactive documentary – evolutionary or revolutionary? (00:10:34)

3. exploring i-docs through the lens of documentary cultures and the relatedness of interactivity and participation in i-docs (00:12:36)

4. participation and the question of power relationships (00:19:50)

5. the issue of authorship in interactive participatory documentary and the thin line between participation vs. extraction and exploitation (00:23:12)

6. participation as a political concept – democracy, interactive documentary and the nurturing of citizenship (00:29:48)

7. linking documentary theory to practice: three examples (00:34:44)

8. the future of interactive documentary (00:45:39)

9. closing remarks – outro (00:48:17)