Authorship in contest: a report from the boundaries of Creative Documentary

Connolly, Stephen (2023) Authorship in contest: a report from the boundaries of Creative Documentary. In: XXIX Visible Evidence: Documentary Ecologies, 07-10 September 2023, Udine, Italy. (Unpublished)

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Creators:

Connolly, Stephen

Description/Abstract:

The content and boundaries of moving image authorship are more settled in the artist's cinema, re-enforced by its identification of an individual creator in 'artist'; the cultural siting of this cinema at the margins of the industry, and its artisanal and crafted modes of production. However, when artist’s work crosses boundaries with non-fiction and invites framing as "creative documentary", the "thorny problem(s)" of authorship invoked by Bruzzi (2006) begin to manifest. Responses to works that straddle these boundaries offer material for questioning models of authorship in non-fiction cinema.

Evidence of failures of authorship in a work of a personal non-fiction film shown at VE 2002, Archive, Album and other Images (Connolly 2022), were found by a peer reviewer. These criticisms can be responded to by examining their modelling of authorship, and shown to be restricted to some registers of cinematic enunciation and not others. The articulation of authorship with respect to the haptic (Campt 2019), and embodiment in non-fiction as invoked by the work of MacDougall (2006), and the artists cinema, by Marks (2000) and Chamarette (2012) will be noted. By discussing these exclusions, a modelling of authorship in non-fiction cinema will be explored in this presentation.

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Conference or Workshop Item

Date:

9 September 2023

Event Location:

Udine, Italy

Uncontrolled Keywords or tags :

Documentary, non-Fiction, Authorship, Peer Review

Schools:

School of Film, Media & Performing Arts

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