Following on from the National Film Board of Canada’s desire to continue participatory film making into the digital age they have produced an ambitious participatory digital ethnography project called High Rise. NFB calls High Rise a 360 degree documentary – by which they mean it is an interactive documentary – a field growing in...
Have a look at the latest posting from the Stories Project - “Villawood Mums” is a powerful film telling the stories of the mothers of two young refugee film makers living in Sydney that contrasts the experience of the two women who arrived in Australia as refugees with their families, a decade apart. Nothing...
Check out a cool project that is using participatory video making to link communities in the western desert and the western suburbs of Sydney. The Stories Project – hosted by Curious Works in collaboration with Martu Media has brought together young film makers from the western desert and refugees living in western Sydney to...
In Part 2 on Marie-Eve Leduc’s work with Participatory Video and her 2007 work running a PV project with 6 Palestinian youths in Bethlehem, Marie-Eve talks about her motivations and approach to PV and reflects on how her own identity as foreign facilitator may have influenced the direction of the youth’s films, despite efforts...
This is the first in what I hope will be a series about artists and practitioners who bring together collaborative ethnography and art. This first feature is about Participatory Video practitioner Marie-Eve Leduc. It is accompanied by an exhibition in Side by Side Online Galleries of 3 of the films made by young Palestinian...
Interested in global movements in participatory photography? Check out the newsletter from PhotoVoice marking their 10 year anniversary…
In the growing tradition of using participatory photography as a tool in the empowerment of marginalised young people, the searching for eldorado project (procurando eldorado in Portugues), which happened in Sao Paolo, Brazil in 2004/05, got young people (10-18 yrs) from that community to create a picture portrait of their community using digital photography....
Two websites/blogs that folks with a specific interest in participatory photography might want to take a look at… The Institute for Photographic Empowerment aims to support the study and practice of participant–produced documentary projects in photography, film, and digital media. They are affiliated with Venice Arts Centre and USC Annenberg in Los Angeles. Check...
One of the projects that broke new ground for movements in participatory & social-change film-making was the Challenge for Change program. Created by the Canadian National Film Board in 1967, it ran until 1980 and resulted in over 140 films being made as collaborations between filmmakers and Canadian communities. The Challenge for Change program...
Urban Theatre Projects (UTP), originally founded as Death Defying Theatre (way back in the ‘80’s) is a professional theatre company based in Bankstown (Sydney, NSW). Their tag line is ‘Stories of Contemporary Life‘ and they make new theatre works that reflect such stories and images of contemporary Australian life, with a focus on people...