Givers, takers, framers : the ethics of auto/biographical documentary

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Bilbrough, Paola (2015) Givers, takers, framers : the ethics of auto/biographical documentary. PhD thesis, Victoria University.

Abstract

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 autobiographical stories with biographical material - the impossibility of telling the self's story without implicating others and vice-versa. Also accompanying this thesis is a booklet of poems, titles "Porous", which is held in the Victoria University Library. The related URL links to the catalogue entry for this booklet.

Additional Information

The official URL links to the 4 videos associated with this thesis: Separate 4, A view of the boats 5C, Going with the wind 6, and Willing Exile 8.

Item type Thesis (PhD thesis)
URI https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/26229
Official URL https://vimeo.com/album/3441827
Subjects Historical > FOR Classification > 1902 Film, Television and Digital Media
Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > College of Arts
Keywords documentary films, short films, filmmakers, filmmaking, creative process, reciprocity with the participants, audience, transparency, identity, representation, ethics, relationships, autobiography, autobiographies, biography, biographies, poetry, documentary-poems, parenting, parents, artists, Sudanese-Australians, memory, imagination, Australia, porous
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