Collaborative filmmaking: lessons learned from the Cissie Gool house film project
| dc.contributor.advisor | Valley, Dylan-Wade | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Maasdorp, Liani | |
| dc.contributor.author | Nisenson, Ann | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-04-04T07:46:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-04-04T07:46:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2023-04-04T07:44:11Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | From 2019 until 2021, I directed and produced a twenty-two-minute film about a housing occupation in Cape Town, South Africa. Setting out on this project, I had several concerns. One, the ethics of being an outsider filmmaker making a film about a community from which I'm neither from, nor to which I belong. Two, I did not want to contribute to a long-practiced, Western documentary tradition of making images of people in need of saving. Although I'm neither the first nor last to raise these dilemmas in documentary filmmaking, I was interested in making the film ethically by drawing on a set of practices and ideas from participatory and collaborative filmmaking. In the making of this film I was also influenced by my own values and political commitments. This paper will first examine what the ‘participatory' term means – both the origins and development of the term and its varied significance – and then situate the Cissie Gool House project within this mode of representation and reflect on the filmmaking process. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Nisenson, A. (2022). <i>Collaborative filmmaking: lessons learned from the Cissie Gool house film project</i>. (). ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Film and Media Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/37656 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Nisenson, Ann. <i>"Collaborative filmmaking: lessons learned from the Cissie Gool house film project."</i> ., ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Film and Media Studies, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/37656 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Nisenson, A. 2022. Collaborative filmmaking: lessons learned from the Cissie Gool house film project. . ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Film and Media Studies. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/37656 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Master Thesis AU - Nisenson, Ann AB - From 2019 until 2021, I directed and produced a twenty-two-minute film about a housing occupation in Cape Town, South Africa. Setting out on this project, I had several concerns. One, the ethics of being an outsider filmmaker making a film about a community from which I'm neither from, nor to which I belong. Two, I did not want to contribute to a long-practiced, Western documentary tradition of making images of people in need of saving. Although I'm neither the first nor last to raise these dilemmas in documentary filmmaking, I was interested in making the film ethically by drawing on a set of practices and ideas from participatory and collaborative filmmaking. In the making of this film I was also influenced by my own values and political commitments. This paper will first examine what the ‘participatory' term means – both the origins and development of the term and its varied significance – and then situate the Cissie Gool House project within this mode of representation and reflect on the filmmaking process. DA - 2022 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - media studies LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2022 T1 - Collaborative filmmaking: lessons learned from the Cissie Gool house film project TI - Collaborative filmmaking: lessons learned from the Cissie Gool house film project UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/37656 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/37656 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Nisenson A. Collaborative filmmaking: lessons learned from the Cissie Gool house film project. []. ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Film and Media Studies, 2022 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/37656 | en_ZA |
| dc.language.rfc3066 | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Film and Media Studies | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | |
| dc.subject | media studies | |
| dc.title | Collaborative filmmaking: lessons learned from the Cissie Gool house film project | |
| dc.type | Master Thesis | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | MA |