Dr Judith Aston Judith.Aston@uwe.ac.uk
Wallscourt Associate Professor in Film and Digital Arts
Interactive documentary: Re-setting the field
Aston, Judith
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Abstract
This article responds to the 4th Interactive Film and Media International Conference (IFM 2022) themes of eco-media, epistemologies and listening by focusing on the role that interactive documentary can play in addressing the existential and pressing issue of climate change. It re-visits the article Interactive Documentary: setting the field which I co-authored with Sandra Gaudenzi in 2012 in light of this now central concern and asks how the affordances of interactive documentary can be used to help re-frame our engagement with the human and the non-human. It places metamodern and polyphonic thinking at the centre of this discussion, as two key concepts that I consider to be particularly helpful when thinking about the contribution that interactive documentary can make to wider debates about eco-media. The paper argues that metamodernism and polyphony can contribute to the development of transformative approaches to interactive documentary and indeed to interactive narrative more generally. This is important as it offers us a set of cognitive tools through which to think about how to navigate the complexities and uncertainties of our collective futures which climate change is undoubtedly bringing. The paper engages with the theoretical arguments first and then applies these to a discussion of my work as a co-convenor of the Polyphonic Documentary project before bringing these thoughts together as tentative conclusions and unresolved issues.
Citation
Aston, J. (2022). Interactive documentary: Re-setting the field. Interactive Film & Media Journal, 2(4), 7-18. https://doi.org/10.32920/ifmj.v2i4.1732
Journal Article Type | Conference Paper |
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Conference Name | 4th Interactive Film and Media International Conference (IFM 2022) |
Conference Location | Online |
Acceptance Date | Nov 24, 2022 |
Online Publication Date | Dec 29, 2022 |
Publication Date | Dec 29, 2022 |
Deposit Date | Apr 5, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | Apr 5, 2023 |
Journal | Interactive Film & Media Journal |
Electronic ISSN | 2564-4173 |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 2 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 7-18 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.32920/ifmj.v2i4.1732 |
Keywords | Interactive documentary, evolving narratives, ecomedia, metamodernism, polyphony |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10609596 |
Publisher URL | https://journals.library.torontomu.ca/index.php/InteractiveFilmMedia/article/view/1732 |
Related Public URLs | https://journals.library.torontomu.ca/index.php/InteractiveFilmMedia/ifm2022 |
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