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OSAAMISTAVOITTEET

Students gain in-depth knowledge and understanding of the ethical issues of the documentary mode, such as professional ethics, dealing with protagonists, licensing practices, and broader ethical philosophical issues.

Laajuus: 2

Aikataulu: 23.04.2019 - 26.04.2019

Vastuuopettaja (voimassa 01.08.2020-31.07.2022): Arturo Delgado Pereira

Vastuuopettaja (koskee tätä kurssikertaa): Arturo Delgado Pereira, Anna Heiskanen

Kurssin yhteystiedot (voimassa 22.04.2019-21.12.2112):

Course: Documentary Film and Ethics (ELO-E1504) 2cr

Major in Documentary Film

2018/2019

Department of Film, Television and Scenography

ELO, Aalto University


Dates: 23.04.-26.04

Time:09:15-16.15 

Room: R028/Q103 (Väre)

Responsible teacher: Arturo Delgado Pereira

Teaching Language: English

E-mail:arturo.delgado@aalto.fi




Kurssin CEFR-taso (koskee tätä kurssikertaa):

Opetuskieli ja suorituskielet (voimassa 01.08.2020-31.07.2022):

Teaching language: English

Languages of study attainment: English

SISÄLTÖ, ARVIOINTI JA KUORMITTAVUUS

Sisältö
  • Voimassa 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:

    The course covers professional ethics, ethics of representation, interactions with protagonists, licensing practices, and broader ethical philosophical issues

  • Koskee tätä kurssikertaa:

    Description

    This course will look at the ethics of representation in three different, but related, practices that imply working with real people (social actors in Nichols’ words). Throughout the course we will consider ethics in documentary film, in anthropological representation (ethnographic film in particular) as well as in participatory art, in which artists collaborate closely with real-life participants in the making of artistic work. The methodology of the course will include lecturers, film screenings as well as discussions. 


Toteutus, työmuodot ja arvosteluperusteet
  • Voimassa 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:

    Lectures, film screenings and discussions. Completing the course require students’ active participation and the completion of a written assignment or oral presentation.

  • Koskee tätä kurssikertaa:


    Assignment. 

    Students will be required to write a short essay (2-3 pages)where they’ll relate their own reflections on ethics of representation with some of the materials presented in the lectures. This essay will be due one week after the end of the course (3.05.19)

    Alternatively, students could do a short presentation(10-15 minutes) on Friday 26.04when they expose in depth some of their findings throughout the course and relate it to their own practice. 


Työmäärä toteutustavoittain
  • Voimassa 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:

    Lectures: 16-27h
    Independent study: 27-38h

PERUSTIETOJA

Oppimateriaali
  • Voimassa 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:

    Study material changes according to course content.

  • Koskee tätä kurssikertaa:

    Tuesday 23.04. 09:15-16:15: Ethics in Documentary Film. 

    The importance of ethical issues in documentary film; Documentary filmmakers on ethical challenges; Consent: a key concept; The case of poverty porn. 


    Suggested readings:  

    Bill Nichols: “Why are Ethical Issues Central to Documentary Filmmaking?” 

    Bill Nichols: “Axiographics: Ethical Space in Documentary Film”

    Patricia Aufderheide, Peter Jaszi and Mridu Chandra. “Honest Truths: Documentary Filmmakers on Ethical Challenges in Their Work”

    Pratap Rughani. “The Dance of Documentary Ethics”

    Film Quarterly monograph in The Act of Killing.


    Suggested films: 

    The House is Black (Forugh Farrojzad, 1962)

    Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman, 1967)

    Agarrando Pueblo (Luis Ospina and Carlos Mayolo, 1977)

    The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)


    Wednesday 24.04. 09:15-16:15: Ethics in Ethnographic Film representation. 

    Story ownership; Author positioning and reflexivity; When the camera is a gun; A surrealist ethnography. 

     

    Suggested readings: 

     Timothy Asch: “The Ethics of Ethnographic Film-making” 

    Ardis Cameron. “When Strangers Bring Cameras: The Poetics and Politics of Othered Places”. 

    David MacDougall: “Whose Story Is It?”

    Diane Price, Ruth Ellen Blakeney, Donavan Cain, Erica S. Collins, Amanda Deal,Kelly H. Elliott, Kristina Marie Heiks. “Camera is a Gun: A Discussion of "Stranger with a Camera"”

    Jay Ruby: “The Ethics of Image-Making; or They’re Going to Put Me in the Movies. They are going to Make a Big Star Out of Me”

    Jay Ruby: Speaking For, Speaking About, Speaking With, Or Speaking Alongside: An Anthropological and Documentary Dilemma”.

    Jeffrey Ruoff. “An Ethnographic Surrealist Film: Luis Buñuel´s Land Without Bread.

     

    Suggested screenings:

    Land Without Bread (Luis Buñuel, 1932)

    Les Maîtres fous(Jean Rouch, 1953-4)

    Reassemblage(Trinh Minh-ha, 1982)

    Stranger with a Camera (Elizabeth Barret, 2000)


    Thursday 25.04. 09.00-17:00: 

     Independent study and CINEMA SCHOOL COMMON PITCH 2019 eventin the K13 Auditorium of Finnish Film Foundation. 


    Friday 26.04. 09:15-16.15: Ethics in Participatory Art. 

     “Good” and “Bad” participation; Tensions between ethics and aesthetics in critical literature on participatory art/art as social practice. 

    Suggested readings: 

    Claire Bishop. “The Social Turn: Collaboration and Its Discontents”

    Grant Kester. Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art. (excerpts)

    Jacques Rancière. “The Ethical Turn of Aesthetics and Politics”



LISÄTIETOJA

Kurssin aikataulu
  • Koskee tätä kurssikertaa:

    General Schedule. 



    Tuesday 23.04. 09:15-16:15: Ethics in Documentary Film. 

    The importance of ethical issues in documentary film; Documentary filmmakers on ethical challenges; Consent: a key concept; The case of poverty porn.  


    Wednesday 24.04. 09:15-16:15: Ethics in Ethnographic Film representation. 

    Story ownership; Author positioning and reflexivity; When the camera is a gun; A surrealist ethnography.  


    Thursday 25.04. 09.00-17:00: 

     Independent study and CINEMA SCHOOL COMMON PITCH 2019 eventin the K13 Auditorium of Finnish Film Foundation. 

     

    Friday 26.04. 09:15-16.15: Ethics in Participatory Art.  

     “Good” and “Bad” participation; Tensions between ethics and aesthetics in critical literature on participatory art/art as social practice.