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The collection explores various methods of screen-writing for essay film, through a diverse set of reflections and analyses of canonical and unconventional approaches of essay filmmaking. It includes contributions from filmmakers and practice-led researchers, who reflect on their production process in the form of production diaries or self-critique, and analyses from scholars who investigate the production contexts of essay film, as well as interviews with filmmakers on how their practices are conceptualised and contextualised. Overall, it takes essay film as an expression of personal camera, collaborative/collective work, and experimental work where the boundaries between different art forms blurs and merges.
List of Figures
Preface
Laura Rascaroli
Introduction: Essay Filmmaking as Creative Research: ‘Behind the Scenes’ of On-screen Thinking, Narrative Techniques and Processes of Knowing
Kiki Tianqi Yu and Romana Turina
Part One: Journeys and Nature of Thinking
1. Chaos or Process? Some Remarks on the Work Process of an Essay Film
Jouko Aaltonen
2. The Collector/Sampler/Editor: A Feminist Perspective on the Screenwriting Process
Judith Rifeser
3. The Future of Thinking: Notes on Animation and the Essay Film
Richard Wright
Part Two: Dialogic Practices
4. Father-land: Narratives of Memory in a Place of Conflict
Kayla Parker
5. Heliographies of Change: Marianna Christofides’ Days In Between (2015)
Brenda Hollweg with Marianna Christofides
6. Personal monument: remembering an awkward love Personal monument: remembering an awkward love
Louis Hothothot
Part Three: Work-in-Progress: From Still to Moving Images
7. Three Sisters in a Sketchbook: Photography as Prosthesis in the Essay Film Form
Romana Turina
8. ‘Into the Frameless Distance’ and ‘The City of (No) Memory’: Itinerant Research for Photo/Filmic Practices
Patti Gaal-Holmes
Part Four: Nature of the essay film and Cinema as Knowledge Production
9. Black Essay-filmmaking and Essay-filmmaking as ‘Black’
William Brown
10. Filmmakers as ‘magicians’ and cinema can be dangerous Filmmakers as ‘Magicians’ and Cinema Can Be Dangerous
Kiki Tianqi Yu in Conversation with Lei Lei
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography