The spread of inexpensive video and digital film technologies since the 1980s has fundamentally changed the materiality and quantitative dimension of visual family archives. Even without formal training, individuals can become chroniclers or interpreters of their own (family) lives and now store and circulate their home movies via digital network media. New professions have also emerged from non-professional film practices, such as the "wedding filmer" in India. Trained directors use access to these new family archives and in particular their reflexive "self-inscription" in films to consciously position themselves beyond the ideological and formal requirements for non-fictional films that were considered normative in India for several decades. In the first phase of the seminar, we will use key texts on the transformation of documentary film practices and the emergence of new forms and formats to gain an overview of the development and accompanying debates since the 1980s. The second working phase is dedicated to an examination of the conditions under which autobiographical documentary film emerged and we will analyze selected examples from the last four decades.
Lernziele: Based on the specific subject area, participants expand their cultural and regional studies knowledge of Indian (diasporic) contexts. They are familiar with basic approaches and texts on first-person documentaries and home movies in India and apply film-analytical approaches to selected examples.
Oral exam (30 minutes)
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