Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Surrendering Control : Two Laws as Collaborative Community Film-making: an Interview with Carolyn Strachan and Alessandro Cavadini
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'This interview with film-makers Carolyn Strachan and Allesandro Cavadini focuses on their collaboration with the Borroloola Aboriginal community in the making of Two Laws (1981). They explain why they chose to ‘surrender’ directorial control to the community and how this action led to the unique form and style of this documentary. The detailed and frank discussion of the complex processes of collaboration, what Marcia Langton once called the‘actual dialogue’ of cross-cultural film production, deepens our appreciation of this unique group-authored film. It also allows us to consider how film in general can function meaningfully as a site of cross-cultural exchange.'  (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Studies in Documentary Film vol. 2 no. 2 2008 16339934 2008 periodical issue

    'In recent months Studies in Documentary Film has been inundated with a plethora of rigorous, inventive and wide-ranging approaches to the documentary film in all its forms. Alongside the attention to the latest theoretical approaches and the ever-evolving multifarious forms we have always insisted upon the historical dimension to documentary film studies. In this issue we have maintained this variety of approaches with the inclusion of Jillian Smith’s rereading of Frederick Wiseman’s Titicut Follies (1968). Rather than imposing the ideas of Walter Benjamin on to the film, Smith works with the film and Benjamin’s ideas to propose a new appreciation of Wiseman’s film as an example of the historical fragment and, in doing this, opens the work for documentary film theory more readily. Similarly, James Leggott and Tobias Hochscherf reinvigorate recent scholarship on the Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA) by introducing the relationship struck between the Amber Film Collective and DEFA in the 1980s as an historical moment which contributes to the ongoing writing of documentary film history. Saër Maty Bâ in his “Visualizing rhythm, transforming relationship: jazz and Seven Songs for Malcolm X” considers what John Akonfrah’s work has to contribute to the idea of black aesthetics. Due to some communications and administrative errors Studies in Documentary Film published “Problematizing (black) documentary aesthetics: John Akomfrah’s use of intertextuality in Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993) in SDF 1.3. an outmoded version of “Visualizing rhythm”. We apologise to Saër Maty Bâ and our readers for this oversight and hope that “Visualizing rhythm” represents the full force of Saër’s research.' (Editorial introduction)

    2008
    pg. 149-168
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149-168 Surrendering Control : Two Laws as Collaborative Community Film-making: an Interview with Carolyn Strachan and Alessandro Cavadinismall AustLit logo Studies in Documentary Film
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