Uncovering memory : filming in South Africa, Germany, Poland and Bosnia/Herzegovina / Tanja Sakota.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sakota, Tanja, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amateur films--History and criticism.

Amateur films.

Documentary-style films--History and criticism.

Documentary-style films.

Memory in motion pictures.

Place (Philosophy) in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 355 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2023.

Summary:

The book is an interdisciplinary work shaped around films made by different workshop participants using film to access personal interpretations of space and place. It is focused on interacting and engaging with remembering through different memory sites.<br><br>Travelling along a timeline of memory, Tanja Sakota takes us on a journey through South Africa, Germany, Poland and Bosnia/Herzegovina. Using a camera and short film format, Sakota hosts several workshops in different countries focused on interacting and engaging with remembering through different memory sites. The author sits at the core but the book is an interdisciplinary work shaped around films made by different workshop participants using film to access personal interpretations of space and place. Questions that underpin the uncovering of memories are: How does one use a camera to make the invisible visible? How does one remember events that one hasn't necessarily experienced? How does one use film to interrogate the past from the future present? As the journey evolves, workshop participants and readers alike enter into a conversation around practice-based research, autoethnography and film.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Nov 2023).

ISBN:

9781776148004

OCLC:

1372130932