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Going Through the Motions

Bill Nichols

How can we repeat something that was unique? How can we repeat the past? These questions have figured into the documentary tradition from the beginning, with Robert Flaherty reenacting aspects of Inuit life that were more typical of pre-contact existence than of the lives of the Inuit he worked with and with John Grierson buying into reconstructions of typical events that no camera was there to film in many of the 1930s British documentaries from Coal Face (Alberto Cavalcanti, 1935) to Night Mail (Harry Watt and Basil Wright, 1936). Reenacting the past gives comfort and coherence; it brings back to life what had passed from it.

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Ib Bondebjerg

Ib Bondebjerg is professor emeritus in the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen. He was the chairman of The Danish Film Institute (1997–2000), and he has been director and co-director of several international research projects. He has published widely on European and Scandinavian film and media culture, and has written three books and numerous articles on documentary.

 

recent publications on documentary
  • Engaging With Reality. Documentary and Globalisation (2014)
  • The Danish Directors 3. Dialogues on The New Danish Documentary Cinema (2014, co-editor)

Christian Iseli

 

Christian Iseli ist Filmemacher und Professor an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK. Seit dem Studium der Geschichte, Germanistik und Anglistik in Bern macht er Dokumentarfilme und arbeitet in den Bereichen Schnitt und Kamera. An der ZHdK leitet er den Forschungsschwerpunkt Film am Institute for the Performing Arts and Film und das Profil Dokumentarfilm im Master of Arts in Film. Christian Iseli ist der Leiter der Zürcher Dokumentarfilmtagung ZDOK.

 

Filme (u.a.):
  • Le terroriste suisse (1988)
  • Grauholz (1991)
  • Der Stand der Bauern (1995)
  • Das Album meiner Mutter (2011)