Givers, takers, framers : the ethics of auto/biographical documentary
Institution: | Victoria University |
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Department: | College of the Arts |
Year: | 2015 |
Keywords: | 1902 Film, Television and Digital Media; College of Arts |
Record ID: | 1046518 |
Full text PDF: | http://vuir.vu.edu.au/26229/ |
The tensions between ethical practice and aesthetic freedom in documentary film are particularly magnified in auto/biographical films that involve representations of family members or participants from a different cultural background to the artist, both contexts that demand a greater awareness of self and other. In this doctoral thesis I use 'auto/biographical' in its most expansive sense to signify the blurring of aubiographical stories with biographical material - the impossibility of telling the self's story without implicating others and vice-versa.