My slides for my mid-candidature review for my PhD in interactive documentary.

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Then

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What happens to
documentary when we
consider multi-linearity
as a framework for
practice?

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“provocations, as litanies of surprising
contrasted curiosities” (Bogost 38)
“suggests infinity almost physically,
because in fact it does not end” (Eco 17)
“permits a sense of cohesion at the
same time as it increases the gap
between project elements” (Frankham 138)

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practice

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project

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outcome

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What happens to the
essay film when we
consider multi-linearity
as a framework for
practice?

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practice

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project

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outcome

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Now

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What relationship do my films
have with the world, and how does
multi-linearity engage with the
world?

14. practice
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“prolonged and creative observation is
the only way to be sure of selecting,
emphasizing, and squeezing everything
possible out of the rich reality in front of
you.”(Ivens)

16. project
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17. outcome
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18. Next
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“if theatrical (in other words, linear)
documentaries generally necessitate the
corralling of footage into a singular
narrative arc with a beginning, middle, and
end, involving a compelling main
character or characters, a problem to be
solved or an adversity to be overcome,
topped off with a memorable denouement,
the filmmaker must inevitably leave a great
deal on the cutting room floor (actual or
digital)” (Soar 167)

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22. then now next
making 3 projects 4th project
exegetical writing 20,000+ drafted words
writing for
publication/
presentations
3 Australian symposiums
1 International conference
1 International presentation
forthcoming book chapter
2 journal articles
1 international
conference
reading
27 books
94 articles
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progress

23. mid-candidature
Jul
2015
Oct
2015
Dec
2015
making
I See You K-Film
Grey Skies/Blue Skies K-Film
Reassembling Rain K-Film prototypes
Finish Reassembling
Rain
Begin 4th major project
Complete 4th major
project
exegetical writing 20,000+ drafted words
Draft writing on 4th major
interactive documentary
Draft writing on 4th major
interactive documentary
writing for publication/
presentations
Placing Non-Fiction Symposium
Screen Explosions ASPERA Conference
Interactive Documentary Symposium
Media Futures Series
World Cinema and the Essay Film Conference
Digital Cultures Research Centre Presentation
Submit paper for World
Cinema and the Essay
Film journal publication
Submit paper on
Reassembling Rain for
publication at appropriate
journal
reading
Essay film + personal documentary
Interactive documentary
Non-narrative documentary
New media
New materialism
Messiness of the world -
Latour, Bogost, etc.
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24. Mar
2016
completion seminar
Jul
2016
maximum submission
making Edit project outcomes
exegetical writing Edit exegetical writing
writing for publication/
presentations
Paper on major project outcome
#4 to be presented at i-Docs,
March 2016
reading
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Bogost, Ian. Alien Phenomenology. Or What It’s Like to Be a Thing. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 2012. Print.
Brasier, Hannah. Grey Skies/Blue Skies. 2015. K-Film.
---. I See You. 2014. K-Film.
---. Reassembling Rain. 2015. K-Film.
Chanan, Michael. “The Role of History in the Individual: Working Notes for a Film.”
The Cinema of Me: The Self and Subjectivity in First Person Documentary. Ed. Alisa
Lebow. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 15–32. Print.
Corrigan, Timothy. The Essay Film: From Montaigne, After Marker. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2011. Print.
Eco, Umberto. The Infinity of Lists. New York: Rizzoli, 2009. Print.
Frankham, Bettina Louise. “A Poetic Approach to Documentary: Discomfort of Form,
Rhetorical Strategies and Aesthetic Experience.” Dissertation. University of
Technology Sydney, 2013. Print.
Ivens, Joris. The Camera and I. First Printing edition. New York: International
Publishers, 1969. Print.
Mason, John. Researching Your Own Practice: The Discipline of Noticing. London:
RoutledgeFalmer, 2002. Print.
Nichols, Bill. “Documentary Film and the Modernist Avant-Garde.” 27.4 (2001): 580–
610. Print.
Soar, Matt. “Making (with) the Korsakow System: Database Documentaries as
Articulation and Assembly.” New Documentary Ecologies. London: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2014. 154–173. Print.