What is Documentary Program 4.2
THURSDAY, APRIL 24
6:00pm OPENING RECEPTION
Northwest Film Center/1219 SW Park Ave.
Sponsored by the Cinema Studies Program, University of Oregon
7:30pm SCREENING
David MacDougall presents With Morning Hearts
Introduced by Sharon Sherman, University of Oregon
FRIDAY, April 25
Unless otherwise noted, location is the University of Oregon’s George S. Turnbull Center, 70 NW Couch St.
9:00-9:15am
WELCOME
Papé Forum, Turnbull Center, Level 3R
Janet Wasko, Knight Chair in Communication Research, University of Oregon
Julianne Newton, Dean, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon
9:15-10:15am
OPENING PLENARY
Moderator: Sharon Sherman, University of Oregon
David MacDougall
Documentary Filmmaking as Process: In Honor of James Blue
10:30-11:45am
Panel #1: Gender and Minorities in Documentary Room 150
Moderator: Carol Stabile, University of Oregon
Monika Raesch and Micky Lee, Suffolk University
“Market is a Big Whore”: Women and Gender in Documentary Films on the 2008 Financial Crisis
Pamela J. Forman and Ellen Mahaffy University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire
Queer Insights and Intersectional Politics: Student Exposés of San Francisco’s LGBT Community
Leighton C. Peterson, Miami University
Forget Geronimo: Voicing Native Histories for US Public Television
Panel #2: International Developments in Documentary Room 152
Moderator: Peter Laufer, University of Oregon
Michael Baker, University of British Columbia
“The Digital Opportunity”: The Interactive Documentary in Canada, Future and Past
Swati Bandi, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Transnational Desires and New Modes of Production: The Case of Documentary Film Production in India
Maureen Mullinax, Xavier University
Trans-Local Learning About Documentary Practice: Doing Independent Media from Indonesia to Central Appalachia
Jing Wang, Rutgers University
A Dream in Two Realities: A Comparative Case of Variations Between Documentary and Reality TV in China
11:45am-1:00pm LUNCH (See suggestions included in conference material.)
1:00-2:15pm
Panel #3: Documentary as a Force in Education and Research Room 150
Moderator: Ed Madison, University of Oregon
Sara Drabik, Northern Kentucky University
Documentary Film as a Method for Academic Research: Successes from the Past, Obstacles of the Present, and Possibilities for the Future
James A. Rada, Ithaca College
Documentary as Multigenerational Conduit to Connect the Classroom with Community
Sandra Ruiz, Rosario University
Documentary Research and Interactive Users
Elizabeth Peterson, University of Oregon
Educate, Entertain, and Persuade: The U.S. Information Agency’s Film Program
Panel #4: “Find Me the Money!” Room 152
Moderator: Michael Aronson, University of Oregon
David Gracon, Eastern Illinois University
Notes for the DIY Documentary Filmmaker
Kathleen M. Ryan, University of Colorado Boulder and Mary Erickson, University of Oregon
“Hey, Let’s Crowd Fund a Movie!”: Alternative Documentary Financing in the mid-2010s
Yannis Tzioumakis, University of Liverpool
“Independent,” “Indie,” and “Indiewood” Documentaries: US Feature Documentary and American Independent Cinema
Bryan Sebok, Lewis & Clark College
Funding a Feature Documentary Within/Without Academia
2:30-3:45pm
Panel #5: Global Voices in Documentary Production Room 150
Moderator: Rodrigo Gomez, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa
Amaranta Cesar, University Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia
(Re)Enactments of Tradition: The Documentary in Brazilian Indigenous Villages
Tatsiana Karaliova, University of Missouri
Comparative Analysis of Argument Construction in the Documentaries about the Minsk Metro Bombing
Katrin Schröter, University of New Mexico
Spatial Authenticity and Visual Deception: Recent Representations of East Germany
Bilgen Kurt, Anadolu University
“The Wind of Change” in Two Atatürk Documentaries in Turkey
Panel #6: Historical Approaches to Documentary Room 152
Moderator: Tom Bivins, University of Oregon
Jörg Becker, University of Marburg
The Nature of War Documentary Photographs
Denise Bennett, University of Idaho
Amateurs and Documentary Film: Past, Present & Future
Nicole Keating, Woodbury University
Producing Truth: Documentary Production and the Politics of History
4:00-5:15pm
Panel #7: The Dynamic Relation Between Journalism and Documentary Room 150
Moderator: Jon Palfreman, University of Oregon
Olga Khrustaleva, University of Missouri
Ethics of Filmmaker/Subject Relationships in Documentary Film
Claudia Lago, Anhembi Morumbi University
The Representation of the Other in Journalism and Documentaries: Impasses of the Narrative of Reality
Sarah Stein, North Carolina State University
Rape in the Military: The Invisible War and Twenty-Two Years of Newspaper Coverage
Thomas Schmidt, University of Oregon
Documenting Reality: Truth Claims in Literary Journalism
Panel #8: Sub-genres of Documentary Room 152
Moderator: Ben Birkinbine, University of Oregon
Carlo Gennarelli, Hofstra University
Real-Time Stories: How Live Sports TV Coverage Has Become Instant Documentary
Geoff Ostrove, University of Oregon
Documenting or Manufacturing Sports Culture? A Political Economic Analysis of ESPN’s 30 for 30
Kevin Taylor Anderson, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Lost in Mediation: Tourism and Cameras at Pompeii
Phil Oppenheim, Georgia State University
What Is Shockumentary?: Watching Critics Watch Mondo Cane
5:30-6:45pm
PLENARY PANEL James Blue’s Documentary Legacy
Papé Forum, Turnbull Center, Level 3R
Moderator: Suzanne Clark, University of Oregon
Dan Miller, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon
Gerald O’Grady, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
Christina Kovac, Senior Preservation Specialists at the National Archives
8:00pm Evening Screening
Northwest Film Center/Whitsell Auditorium/1219 SW Park Ave.
James Blue’s The March and A Few Notes on Our Food Problem, with speakers Richard Blue, Gill Dennis, and Christina Kovac. Moderated by Gerald O’Grady. Presented by Cinema Pacific and Northwest Film Center.
SCREENINGS
All of the screenings listed here are in the Wayne Morse Suite, Room 302.
Screening 1: 10:30-11:10am
Sharon Sherman and Cheryl Lewman, University of Oregon
Whatever Happened to Zulay? An Otavaleña’s Journey
Screening 2: 11:15-11:55am
Leslie Steeves, University of Oregon
Give a Laptop, Change the World: The Story of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Project in Ghana
Screening 3: 1:00-1:45pm
Richard Beckman, University of Miami
The Role of Documentary Film in the Romani Civil Rights Movement
Screening 4: 1:50-2:30pm
Andrew O. McLaughlin, independent scholar
A Soldier’s Home
Screening 5: 2:35-3:15pm
Julie Perini, Jodi Darby, and Erin Yanke, Safe and Sound Projects
Collective Documentary Production: Fluid Roles, Skill-building, and Radical & Feminist Aesthetics
Screening 6: 3:20-4:00pm
Charles Ledford, University of Illinois
Overtown Inside/Out
Screening 7: 4:05-4:45pm
Kim Komenich, San Jose State University
Revolution Revisited
Screening 8: 4:50-5:30pm
Art Herbig and Aaron Hess, Indiana University
Never Forget: Public Memory & 9/11
SATURDAY, April 26
9:15-10:15am
PLENARY Room 142/144
Moderator: Gabriela Martinez, University of Oregon
Kelly Matheson, Senior Program Manager, WITNESS
Honest Truths: Why Human Rights Principles Should Guide Documentary Filmmaking
10:30-11:45am
Panel #9: Blurring the Focus: Reality/Fiction Room 150
Moderator: Kris Wright, University of Oregon
Ed Madison, University of Oregon
Murky Waters: Docufiction Disguised as Documentary
Eileen Meehan, Southern Illinois University
Reality TV, Actuality TV – and Documentaries?
Biswarup Sen, University of Oregon
Monetizing the Past: Pawn Stars as Documentary
Steven Schoen, Florida International University and David Payne, University of South Florida
The Rhetoric of the Real in Documentary
Erika Walukiewicz, University of Oregon in Portland
The Intimization of Documentary – An Ethical Challenge
Panel #10: New Definitions of Documentary Room 152
Moderator: Torsten Kjellstrand, University of Oregon
Randy Nichols, Bentley University
Playing the Algorithm: Understanding the Documentary Video Game
David Staton, University of Oregon
Paths, Performance, and Participation; the Interactive Documentary
Debra Tolchinsky, Northwestern University
Defining the Documentary in the Age of Hybridization
Antonio Zirión, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Recycling and Remix in the Contemporary Documentary
Panel #11: Special Forms of Documentary Papé Forum, Turnbull Center, Level 3R
Moderator: Donna Davis, University of Oregon
Grace M. Provenzano, San Francisco State University
Dance on Camera Documentary: Preserving the Art of Movement
Debra Merskin, University of Oregon
Nature Documentaries versus Nature Entertainment: Plight of the Prairie Dog
Carl Bybee, University of Oregon
Enacting “The Story of Stuff”: Affect, Compassion, and Social Action On & Offline
Doris Baltruschat, University of British Columbia
iDocs for Change (!?)
11:45am-1:00pm Lunch: Screening & Sandwiches Room 142/144
Lisa Gilman, University of Oregon
Grounds for Resistance
1:00-2:15pm
Panel #12: The Evolution of Documentary Production Room 150
Moderator: Charles Deitz, University of Oregon
Mary Beth Leidman, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
At the Crossroads: A Case Study on the Impact of Digital Technology on Documentary Production
Thomas J. Brown, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
At the Crossroads: Examining a New Paradigm for Documentaries in the 21st Century
Joakim Karlsen, Østfold University College, and Ånund Austenå, professional documentary filmmaker
Adapting Documentary Practice to the Web
Panel #13: Social Change and Documentary Room 152
Moderator: Gerry Sussman, Portland State University
Sonia De la Cruz, University of Oregon
Things Unseen: What Documentaries Can Teach Us about Identity and Immigration
Derek Gladwin, University of Alberta
Indigenous Communities at the End of the World: Spatial (In)Justice in North Atlantic Documentary Film
Shaun Wright, James Madison University
The Creation, Role and Impact of Documentary Films in a Post-Conflict Society
Panel #14: Dissecting Documentaries Papé Forum, Turnbull Center, Level 3R
Moderator: Sergio Rigoletto, University of Oregon
Kyle McDaniel, University of Oregon
Shooting the Shooter: The Image of Photographers in Non-Fiction Films
Brian Ganter, Capilano University
The Fish-Eye’s View: Leviathan as Immersive Documentary and Concrete Cinema
Divya Kumar, independent filmmaker
The “Aesthetics of Silence” in the Documentary Cinema of Werner Herzog
Daisuke Miyao, University of Oregon
Transnational and Transmedial Mimesis: The Lumière Brothers’ Actuality Films
2:30-3:45pm
Panel #15: Four on Blue Room 142/144
Moderator: Anne Richardson
Brian Lindstrom, Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher and Penny Allen discuss documentary filmmaker James Blue
Panel #16: The Role of Documentary in Activism Room 150
Moderator: Nancy Breaux, Art Institute of Portland
Stephen Rust, University of Oregon
Motivating Action: Environmental Activism and Documentary Aesthetics
Sheila E. Schroeder, University of Denver
Digital Storytelling as Activist Documentary
David Whiteman, University of South Carolina
Assessing the Increasing Impact of Documentary Film: An Issue-centered Approach to Outreach and Political Impact
Andy Opel, Florida State University
The Gasland Movement: Transmedia Documentary and Communities of Activism
Panel #17: Self-Reflections Through Documentary Room 152
Moderator: Wes Pope, University of Oregon
Kris Fallon, University of California
Auto/bio/graphy: Digital Media and the Exposure of the Self
Clint Burnham, Simon Fraser University
Searching for the Object: Documentary film, Žižek, and Object-oriented Ontology
George S. Larke-Walsh, University of North Texas
A New Vocabulary for Documentary Authorship
Caitlin Zera, Webster University
The Experiential Essay
4:00-5:15pm
Panel #18: Women Producing Documentaries Room 150
Moderator: Rebecca Force, University of Oregon
Suzanne Clark, University of Oregon
New Documentary Films about Women, by Women
Viktorija Mickute, University of Missouri
American Female Independent Documentary Filmmakers: Being a Woman Behind-the-camera
Stephanie Skourtes, University of British Columbia
The Making of a Photo-Documentary as Political Translations of Girlhood
Panel #19: Theoretical Explorations of Mediated Reality Papé Forum, Turnbull Center, Level 3R
Moderator: Julianne Newton, University of Oregon
Jesse Abdenour, UNC-Chapel Hill
Deciphering Documentaries: Categorizing Non-Fiction Films to Maximize Research Effectiveness
Maureen A. Asten, independent scholar
What Role Should Documentary Media Play in Society?
Jher, University of Oregon
Documenting Materiality and Material Documents: An Exploration
Iiris Ruoho, University of Tampere
Documentary Television as a Cultural Form and Politics
Panel #20: The Mediation of Memory Room 152
Moderator: Brant Burkey, University of Oregon
Gabriela Alves, Federal University of Espírito Santo
Memory and History in the Brazilian Documentary: Viramundo and Viva Cariri!
Reece Auguiste, University of Colorado at Boulder
Documentary Cinema and the Archives of Collective Memory
Scott Selberg, Portland State University
Mediating Personhood: Time and Truth in the Images of Alzheimer’s
Christina M. Smith, California State University Channel Islands, and Bonnie Blake, College of New Jersey
The Mediation of WWII Memory in “Beyond All Boundaries”
5:30-6:45pm CLOSING PLENARY PANEL: Expanding the Idea of Documentary Room 142/144
Moderator: Gabriela Martinez, University of Oregon
Patricia R. Zimmermann, Ithaca College, and Helen De Michiel, Thirtyleaves Production
Open Space: Towards a Theory and Practice of Documentary in New Media
Dmae Roberts, Mediarites
Transforming Archives As an Act of Legacy
Carlos Aguirre, University of Oregon
Documentaries as Vehicles of Memory
6:45-7:00pm
James Blue Award Presentation Room 142/144
Presented to Kelly Matheson by Richard Blue, Chairman of James & Richard Blue Foundation
7:00pm
CLOSING RECEPTION (including door prizes!) Atrium
Sponsored by James & Richard Blue Foundation and University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication George S. Turnbull Portland Center
8:00pm Evening Screening Northwest Film Center/Whitsell Auditorium/1219 SW Park Ave.
Approved for Adoption. Animated Documentary, Laurent Boileau/Jung Henin, France, 2012, 75 minutes.
In French with English subtitles, with guest director Jung. Presented by Cinema Pacific and Northwest Film Center.